Richard Fairfax Court AC (born Nedlands, September 27, 1947), was Liberal Party Premier of Western Australia between 1993 and 2001. He is the son of Sir Charles Court who was also Premier between 1974 and 1982. He was educated at Hale School and graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Commerce degree. His sister-in-law is Margaret Smith Court.

Court was the sitting member for the blue-ribbon seat of Nedlands and elected as Premier in 1993, largely due to electoral backlash against the Labor Party, a number of prominent members of which had been associated with the WA Inc scandals of the 1980s. The associated WA Inc royal commission had been called by Lawrence and had handed down its finding in mid-1992 shortly before the election. Allegations of misuse of parliamentary privilege by the incumbent Premier Carmen Lawrence in relation to the suicide of a woman who subsequently committed suicide was also a contributor.

After his government was elected, he ordered a royal commission into the events relating to the suicide of Penny Easton and the involvement of Lawrence.

The Court government was comfortably re-elected in 1996. However, its popularity suffered in his second term as Premier due to scandals and was narrowly defeated by a rejuvenated Labor Party led by Dr Geoff Gallop in 2001. The leakage of preferences from One Nation ^* and the Liberals for Forests formed to protest the logging of old growth forests in the state and the unpopularity of the federal Liberal Government of John Howard due to the introduction of the GST also contributed to the narrow defeat of the Court Government. Richard Court retired from politics after the 2001 defeat. He was succeeded by Colin Barnett for the position as the leader of the Liberal Party (WA).

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