Sir Stanley Charles Burbury, KCMG, KCVO, KBE (3 December 1909 – 24 April 1995) was an Australian judge.
[1] Burbury's mother died two months after his birth and he was returned to Tasmania to be raised by his aunt Ada Mary Lakin in Hobart.
He was appointed King's Counsel in 1950 and the following year led a royal commission into Tasmania's apple and pear industry.
He was a vice-warden of the University of Tasmania's senate from 1948 to 1955 and was involved in the controversial dismissal of philosophy professor Sydney Sparkes Orr on morality grounds.
[1] In 1956, Premier Robert Cosgrove nominated Burbury to succeed John Morris as Chief Justice of Tasmania.
[4] During the Franklin Dam controversy, which saw Harry Holgate's ALP government forced into minority after the defection of former premier Doug Lowe to the crossbench, he was petitioned by a majority of the Tasmanian House of Assembly for an early recall of parliament.
He rejected the petition after consultation with Holgate on the grounds that the situation could "only be resolved by constitutional procedures on the floor of the House".