Former Tasmanian Supreme Court judge Gregory Geason has been sentenced to a 12-month community corrections order for breaching a domestic violence order.
During sentencing at Sydney’s Downing Centre on Friday, the court heard he breached the order by contacting a protected person 12 times over a nine-day period.
The court heard the AVO was in place after Geason was charged with the assault and emotional abuse or intimidation of a woman in Tasmania, which he was later convicted for.
It’s the second time the disgraced judge has been convicted of a criminal offence after he was sentenced in Hobart last month for one count of assault and another count of emotional abuse or intimidation.
Geason was handed a 12-month community corrections order with 100 hours of community service for those offences.
The assault, sometime between October and November last year, involved him grabbing the woman, shaking her, punching her to the chest and pushing her backwards, resulting in the woman hitting her head on a mantelpiece and suffering concussion and bruising.
He subjected the woman to emotional abuse on several occasions between April and November last year, including “vicious” insults and by tracking her movements using technology.
Geason had served as a Supreme Court judge in Tasmania from 2017, and previously held other senior roles including the chair of the Parole Board, Victims of Crime Commissioner, and chair of Tasmania’s planning appeals authority.
He formally resigned from the Tasmanian Supreme Court a week after being convicted of multiple criminal offences in Hobart in November.