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SIR MAURICE BYERS LECTURE

About the Lecture

In early 2000, Bar Council resolved to establish an annual address in honour of Sir Maurice Byers. In recognition of Sir Maurice's principal areas of work, it was decided to make the focus one of constitutional or public law.

About Sir Maurice

Click here to view an obituary for Sir Maurice Byers Kt CBE QC, written by Sackar QC and published in the Bar Association newsletter in February 1999.


Sir Maurice Byers Kt CBE QC
Past lectures
   

2006

The Implications of the Constitution

The 2006 Sir Maurice Byers Lecture was delivered by David Jackson
QC on Thursday, 30 March 2006 at 5.30pm. The lecture, titled ‘The Implications of the Constitution’, was held in the Bar Association Common Room. The lecture was published in the Winter edition of Bar News, the journal of the New South Wales Bar Association.

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2005

Statutes

The 2005 Sir Maurice Byers Lecture delivered by The Hon Justice WMC Gummow AC in the Banco Court, Queens Square, Sydney on 17 March 2005.

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Justice Gummow
2003 - 2004

What's wrong with top-down legal reasoning?

The 2004 Sir Maurice Byers Lecture delivered by The Hon Justice Keith Mason AC, President of the New South Wales Court of Appeal.

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The Hon Justice Keith Mason AC

2002

Legalism, realism and judicial rhetoric in constitutional law, delivered by Emeritus Professor Leslie Zines, Visiting Fellow, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University on Wednesday, 16 October 2002

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2001

Does Chapter III of the Constitution protect substantive as well as procedural rights?, delivered by the Hon Justice MH McHugh AC on 17 October 2001.

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The Hon Justice MH McHugh AC

   

2000
Strengths and perils: the Bar at the turnof the century

The inaugural Maurice Byers Lecture was delivered by Sir Gerard Brennan on 30 November 2000.

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The Hon Sir Gerard Brennan AC KBE

 

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