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Michael Donald Kirby AC CMG (born 18 March 1939) is an Australian jurist and academic who is a former Justice of the High Court of Australia, serving from 1996 to 2009. [1] He has remained active in retirement; in May 2013 he was appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council to lead an inquiry into human rights abuses in North Korea ...
Feb 11, 2019 · Exactly 50 years to the day since they first met, former High Court judge Michael Kirby has married his longtime partner Johan van Vloten in a civil ceremony in Sydney's Bondi Junction.
Michael Kirby is an international jurist, educator and former judge. He served as a Deputy President of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission (1975-83); Chairman of the Australian Law Reform Commission (1975-84); Judge of the Federal Court of Australia (1983-4); President of the New South Wales Court of Appeal (1984-96 ...
Former High Court Justice Michael Kirby explains how one particular case early in his career taught him an important lesson. In 1965, I was 26 years old and working in a firm called Hickson Lakeman & Holcombe.
This annual lecture celebrates the law reform legacy of the Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG both as the inaugural Chairman of the ALRC and as one of Australia’s leading jurists.
May 20, 2013 · When he retired from the High Court in 2009, The Hon Michael Kirby AO CMG was Australia's longest-serving judge. In this lecture, Justice Kirby shares some s...
Michael Kirby was a Justice of the High Court of Australia, the nation’s highest court, from 1996-2009. Before that he held other important legal posts including President of the New South Wales Court of Appeal and of the Solomon Islands Court of Appeal.