Favourite High Court Justice (1 Viewer)

[Rorix]

It's Heydon, baby!

 

[Meldrum]

Kirby's cool, he forworded my legal textbook and his pro-gay rights...yay.

 

[LaraB]

I htink Kirbys cool caus he isnt too worried by dissenting, ie he'll actually do it. His judgements are fairly easy to read, his reasoning's always clear and altho he is obviousloy pro rights of certain groups, its not evident as such in his rulings which is a good thing

i think he's taking a more modern, and i think as a result, better, approach to the law than some of the other oldies

 

[neo o]

i think he's taking a more modern, and i think as a result, better, approach to the law than some of the other oldies

Oh no, judicial activism has been around long before Kirby.

 

[Rorix]

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[LaraB]

Oh no, judicial activism has been around long before Kirby.

um duh

i said i think he's taking a more modern approach than some others - judiciasl activisim doesnt necessarily meana more modern approach...

i mean that kirby's views, i think, keep up with societal views and events more than the others


i mean, what judge doesnt exerciser some form of jusicial activism, be it on purpose of not lol its a hazard of the job

 

[LaraB]

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[spell check]

Sir Isaac Isaacs

 

[= Jennifer =]

Kirby J definately gets my vote....McHugh's judgments are too long, Gummow J i just like his name , Heydon J makes very very brief judgments, Gleeson CJ pretty logical man

 

[Lexicographer]

Kirby's the only one I've actually sat down and had a conversation with.

 

[gordo]

did he come onto you?

 

[MoonlightSonata]

Gleeson is my fav, I find he often has brilliant clarity - very sleek judgments. He's also not a bad speaker, has an intimidating grasp of the law (suprise suprise) and has a very scary death stare that he inadvertantly assumes randomly while speaking.

Kirby, Denning and Dixon are my runner-ups. Gummow, while obviously an extremely knowledable man, tends to write rather difficult judgments... he doesn't structure them as clearly. Callinan is often overly verbose and archaic with his language. McHugh is a reasonable chap, albeit a bit boring sometimes.

I think Gummow and Gaudron must have had the hots for each other lol... they wrote heaps of joint judgments

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Haha

The resemblance is uncanny too

 

[withoutaface]

Kirby is one man.
Not Kirby is several men.
:. P(Me liking Not Kirby)>P(Me liking Kirby)

 

[MoonlightSonata]

Kirby is one man.
Not Kirby is several men.
:. P(Me liking Not Kirby)>P(Me liking Kirby)

lol

"not kirby" = "[someone who is] not Kirby"

die maths man die

 

[theone123]

Shaw CJ is my idol

 

[xeuyrawp]

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[KFunk]

I'm still waiting on Kirby's yearly motivational speech at our school.

 

[yourdad]

Kirby definitely the best

I usually find Kirby the easiest to read, and his reasoning makes more sense. I remember in crim, we had to read Clifton James Cutter v The Queen where this drunk guy stabbed a cop in the throat and Kirby's dissenting judgment was basically 'listen up dumbasses, if you stab someone in the throat then you have intent to kill them'.

 

[MoonlightSonata]

I don't think he "makes more sense". You could make the argument he uses more "common sense" maybe.

Despite being the most difficult to understand (in my opinion), Gummow is widely regarded as the intellectual heart of the HC

 

[Minai]

Dixon, Mason and more recently Gleeson - all simple to understand (in the cases I read anyway)