Sir Frederick Jordan: Australia's most influential judge? / The Hon Keith Mason AC KC.

Sir Frederick Jordan: Australia's most influential judge? / The Hon Keith Mason AC KC.

Sir Frederick Jordan's legacies

Brisbane : Supreme Court Library Queensland 2022

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1 online speaker's notes (18 pages) PDF

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Chief Justice of New South Wales from 1934–1949, Sir Frederick Jordan’s vigorous defence of the rule of law during World War II sometimes put him at odds with the governments of the day and the High Court of Australia. Through his earlier law school teaching, publications and the lasting influence of his judgments, Sir Frederick has a serious claim to be Australia’s greatest jurist even though he declined an appointment to the High Court offered by Prime Minister Robert Menzies at the urging of Sir Owen Dixon. -- A bibliophile fluent in six languages, his extra-judicial writings reveal expansive and opinionated scholarship in art, literature, religion and popular culture.

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The Hon Keith Mason AC KC, 'Sir Frederick Jordan: Australia's most influential judge?', 2022 Selden Society Lecture 4 given at the Banco Court, Brisbane, 3 Nov 2022

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