Three Sydney judges / David Ash.

1st edition

9798640336573 paperback

[Sydney] : jurisprude.net, 2020.

English

225 pages , 23 cm

BIO ASH.d 2020

This book sketches the lives and careers of three Justices of the High Court of Australia, Australia's supreme court. Albert Bathurst Piddington, George Rich, and Adrian Knox are part of Sydney's history. They also inform our present. Rich, for example, was instrumental in the establishment of the Womens College in the University of Sydney, while Knox was, and continues to be recognised as, the person responsible for the consolidation of the state's racing at Randwick. Of relevance as the COVID-19 tragedy unfolds is the role of Piddington as founding chief of the Inter-State Commission. Forgotten today, the Commission was imagined by Australia's founding fathers as an independent economic regulator comprising a fourth arm of national government. Its time may now have come. - Back of book.

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