William Gummow
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| The Honourable Justice William Gummow AC, BA (Hons) LLM (Hons), QC |
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| Assumed office 21 April 1995 |
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| Appointed by | Paul Keating |
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| Preceded by | Sir Gerard Brennan |
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| Born | October 9, 1942  |
| Nationality | Australian |
William Charles Montague Gummow, AC, QC (b. 9 October 1942) is a Justice of the High Court of Australia, the highest court in the Australian court hierarchy.
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[edit] Biography
Justice Gummow completed his secondary education at Sydney Grammar. He later graduated from the University of Sydney as Bachelor of Arts and Master of Laws, both with first class honours.
After 10 years in practice as a solicitor, he was called to the New South Wales Bar in 1976. For 30 years he lectured, part-time, at the University of Sydney.
In 1986, Justice Gummow was appointed to the Federal Court of Australia. He was appointed to the High Court of Australia in April 1995. He has tenure as a High Court Justice until 9 October, 2012.
Justice Gummow was appointed a Companion in the General Division of the Order of Australia (AC), Australia's highest civil honour, in 1997.
[edit] Jurisprudence
[edit] Generally
Statistics in recent years have consistently shown Justice Gummow to be most likely to participate or be joined in a majority opinion. He only dissented once in 2006, out of 55 judgments.[1] Justice Gummow also often joins with Justice Hayne; in 2006 this number was 40 (75.47%) joint judgments. Similarly, in the same year Justices Gummow and Hayne joined each other in judgment in all 11 constitutional cases.[2]
[edit] Notable Judgments
Any attempt to select notable judgments of Justice Gummow is made difficult because he is so often a participant in joint judgments, whose authorship cannot be attributed. However, some of his more notable individual opinions are:
- Breen v Williams
- Kable v Director of Public Prosecutions for New South Wales
- The Wik Peoples v The State of Queensland
- Hill trading as R F Hill & Associates v Van Erp
- Pyrenees Shire Council v Day
- Scott v Davis
- Roxborough v Rothmans of Pall Mall
- Al-Kateb v Godwin
[edit] Publications
Justice Gummow is the author of books including Change and Continuity: Statute, Equity, and Federalism, which is based upon the lectures he delivered at Oxford University in 1999 as part of the Clarendon law lectures series. These lectures take up themes of continuity and change in the law, particularly as they appear in the great common law jurisdictions.
He is a co-author of Jacobs' Law of Trusts in Australia, and Equity: Doctrines and Remedies. Both are classics, and are widely referred to in the common law world.
[edit] References
| Justices of the High Court of Australia |  |
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| Chief Justices of Australia | |
| Griffith · Knox · Isaacs · Gavan Duffy · Latham · Dixon · Barwick · Gibbs · Mason · Brennan · Gleeson | |
| Puisne Justices | |
| Barton · O'Connor · Higgins · Powers · Piddington · Rich · Starke · Evatt · McTiernan · Williams · Webb · Fullagar · Kitto · Taylor · Menzies · Windeyer · Owen · Walsh · Stephen · Jacobs · Murphy · Aickin · Wilson · Deane · Dawson · Toohey · Gaudron · McHugh · Gummow · Kirby · Hayne · Callinan · Heydon · Crennan · Kiefel | |
| current Justices are in italics | |
