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TC Beirne School of Law: A History

2nd editionby Michael White

With forewords by:The Honourable Paul de Jersey AC, Governor of Queensland

The Honourable Catherine Holmes, Chief Justice of Queensland Professor Sarah Derrington, Head of School, TC Beirne School of Law

CONTENTS

Forewords by:a. H.E. Paul de Jersey AC, Governor of Queensland, b. The Honourable Catherine Holmes, Chief Justice of the Qld, c. Professor Sarah Derrington, Dean and Head of School

Author’s Preface, Acknowledgements and Thanks

Chapter 1. Foundations of the Law School: 1911-1938Establishment of the University of QueenslandLaw in the Faculty of ArtsBeginnings of the Law SchoolGarrick Bequest and Chair of LawThomas Charles Beirne (1860-1949). DonationUna Gailey Prentice (nee Bick) (1913-1986). First Female Graduate

Chapter 2. World War II and Move to St Lucia: 1939-1949Preparation for WarWorld War II (1939-1945)Secret Operations Room and OfficesUQ Lawyers LostAlexander Charles McNab (27 July 1918-2 May 1943)Chester James Parker (29 July 1916-11 August 1942)George Douglas Rutherford Avery (24 July 1918-22 October 1942)Harley Charles Stumm (29 August 1913-13 May 1944)Harrold Graham Pace (31 October 1916-13 May 1942)New Law School Home at St Lucia 1948-1949

Chapter 3.: Restructuring and Student Protests: 1950-1979Changing CurriculumInter-Administrative Difficulties and the Martin ReportAccommodation Inadequacies and the Law LibraryCivil Disobedience and Student RiotsNoteworthy FiguresProfessor Walter Norwood Leslie Harrison (1904-1966)Sir Harry Talbot Gibbs GCMG, AC, KBE (1917-2005)Sir Walter Campbell AC (1921-2004)

Chapter 4. Rejuvenation, Success and Expansion: 1980-2006Rumblings of the Past and Library Refurbishment 1990Academic AdvancementCentres of Excellence EstablishedInternational ExpansionLaw Faculty Merged into the Business, Economics and Law Faculty 1997Second Law Library Refurbishment 2000Sir Gerard Brennan Chair EstablishedResearch and Course DevelopmentSeventieth Law School Anniversary 2006Sir Harry Gibbs Moot CourtMooting SuccessesUniversity of Queensland Law SocietyWomen Law Students Association; Women and the Law Society; Justice and the Law Society

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Chapter 5. Development, New Courses and Refurbishment 2007-2016IntroductionHeads and Deans of SchoolLegal Education and Curriculum ChangesNew UQ Student Strategy 2016Practical Legal TrainingLegal Education Courses Introduction LLB and Dual Courses Honours Juris Doctor Degree (JD) Masters Degrees by Coursework Research Higher Degrees New Teaching Method from 2017Research Centres Centre for Public International & Comparative Law (CPICL) Australian Centre for Private Law (ACPL) Marine and Shipping Law Unit (MASLU)Law School Programs Pro Bono CentreClinical Legal Education Continuing Professional DevelopmentExchanges with International Law SchoolsPractitioners-in-ResidenceLaw School Intake NumbersFinancesMooting and Competitions Introduction Annual David Jackson Dinner Jessup Moots Maritime Law MootsOther MootsLegal Skills CompetitionsLaw Teaching ExcellenceRefurbishment of Forgan Smith Building Premises Refurbishment Planning Forgan Smith Funding Program Mr John Storey AO Hon Dr Margaret White AO Mr James Bell QC Fund Raising Committee MembersAppendicesTC Beirne Graduates 1938-2016Senior Staff (List of Professors, Heads, Deans & Readers)Presidents of the University of Queensland Law Society (UQLS)Presidents of the Womens Law Students Association (WLSA), the Women and the Law Society (WATL) and the

Justice and the Law Society (JATL)Law Student Presidents of the University of Queensland UnionTC Beirne School of Law Winners of Selected ScholarshipsGraduating ValedictoriansTC Beirne Graduates Superior Court JudgesTC Beirne Graduates Governors-General, Governors and Chief JusticesMajor Donors, Bequests, Prizes and Awards

IndexAbout the author and Research Assistant

A History

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TC Beirne School of Law: A History 2nd Edition

Contents

Forewords by:

a. H.E. Paul de Jersey AC, Governor of Queensland, b. The Honourable Catherine Holmes, Chief Justice of the Qld, c. Professor Sarah Derrington, Dean and Head of School

Author’s Preface, Acknowledgements and Thanks Chapter 1. Foundations of the Law School: 1911-1938 1. Establishment of the University of Queensland 2. Law in the Faculty of Arts 3. Beginnings of the Law School 4. Garrick Bequest and Chair of Law 5. Thomas Charles Beirne (1860-1949). Donation 6. Una Gailey Prentice (nee Bick) (1913-1986). First Female Graduate Chapter 2. World War II and Move to St Lucia: 1939-1949 2 Preparation for War 3 World War II (1939-1945)

3.1 Secret Operations Room and Offices 3.2 UQ Lawyers Lost

3.2.1 Alexander Charles McNab (27 July 1918-2 May 1943) 3.2.2 Chester James Parker (29 July 1916-11 August 1942) 3.2.3 George Douglas Rutherford Avery (24 July 1918-22 October 1942) 3.2.4 Harley Charles Stumm (29 August 1913-13 May 1944) 3.2.5 Harrold Graham Pace (31 October 1916-13 May 1942)

4 New Law School Home at St Lucia 1948-1949 Chapter 3.: Restructuring and Student Protests: 1950-1979 3.1 Changing Curriculum 3.2 Inter-Administrative Difficulties and the Martin Report 3.3 Accommodation Inadequacies and the Law Library 3.4 Civil Disobedience and Student Riots 3.5 Noteworthy Figures

3.5.1 Professor Walter Norwood Leslie Harrison (1904-1966) 3.5.2 Sir Harry Talbot Gibbs GCMG, AC, KBE (1917-2005) 3.5.3 Sir Walter Campbell AC (1921-2004)

Chapter 4. Rejuvenation, Success and Expansion: 1980-2006 4.1 Rumblings of the Past and Library Refurbishment 1990 4.2 Academic Advancement 4.3 Centres of Excellence Established 4.4 International Expansion 4.5 Law Faculty Merged into the Business, Economics and Law Faculty 1997 4.6 Second Law Library Refurbishment 2000


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4.7 Sir Gerard Brennan Chair Established 4.8 Research and Course Development 4.9 Seventieth Law School Anniversary 2006 4.10 Sir Harry Gibbs Moot Court 4.11 Mooting Successes 4.12 University of Queensland Law Society 4.13 Women Law Students Association; Women and the Law Society; Justice and the Law

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Chapter 5. Development, New Courses and Refurbishment 2007-2016 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Heads and Deans of School 5.3 Legal Education and Curriculum Changes 5.3.1 New UQ Student Strategy 2016 5.4 Practical Legal Training 5.5 Legal Education Courses 5.5.1 Introduction 5.5.2 LLB and Dual Courses 5.5.3 Honours 5.5.4 Juris Doctor Degree (JD) 5.5.5 Masters Degrees by Coursework 5.5.6 Research Higher Degrees 5.5.7 New Teaching Method from 2017 5.6 Research Centres 5.6.1 Centre for Public International & Comparative Law (CPICL) 5.6.2 Australian Centre for Private Law (ACPL) 5.6.3 Marine and Shipping Law Unit (MASLU) 5.7 Law School Programs 5.7.1 Pro Bono Centre

5.7.2 Clinical Legal Education 5.7.2 Continuing Professional Development 5.8 Exchanges with International Law Schools 5.9 Practitioners-in-Residence 5.10 Law School Intake Numbers 5.11 Finances 5.12 Mooting and Competitions 5.12.1 Introduction 5.12.2 Annual David Jackson Dinner 5.12.3 Jessup Moots 5.12.4 Maritime Law Moots

5.12.5 Other Moots 5.12.6 Legal Skills Competitions

5.13 Law Teaching Excellence 5.14 Refurbishment of Forgan Smith Building Premises 5.14.1 Refurbishment Planning 5.14.2 Forgan Smith Funding Program 5.14.2.1 Mr John Storey AO 5.14.2.2 Hon Dr Margaret White AO 5.14.2.3 Mr James Bell QC 5.14.2.4 Fund Raising Committee Members


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Appendices I. TC Beirne Graduates 1938-2016II. Senior Staff (List of Professors, Heads, Deans & Readers)III. Presidents of the University of Queensland Law Society (UQLS)IV. Presidents of the Womens Law Students Association (WLSA), the Women

and the Law Society (WATL) and the Justice and the Law Society (JATL)V. Law Student Presidents of the University of Queensland UnionVI. TC Beirne School of Law Winners of Selected ScholarshipsVII. Graduating ValedictoriansVIII. TC Beirne Graduates Superior Court JudgesIX. TC Beirne Graduates Governors-General, Governors and Chief JusticesX. Major Donors, Bequests, Prizes and Awards

Index

About the author and Research Assistant

Forewords

Message from the Queensland Governor

I am always pleased to have the opportunity to express my encouragement and sincere gratitude to the law school which has given so much to our State and nation, and to me personally.

For almost half of its 80 years, the law faculty stood alone in Queensland in providing tertiary legal education. Now, amongst a competitive field of Queensland schools, all committed to excellence, the TC Beirne Law School continues to inspire its graduates and engender confidence in the profession, and the wider community, which it magnificently serves. And the School’s influence is there for all to see, with graduates occupying leadership positions in the judiciary, as practitioners, in business and the community sector, and, on four of the last six occasions, in the high office of Governor of Queensland.

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And despite its rich historical traditions, the School remains committed to vibrant regrowth, conspicuously shown through the refurbishment of the Forgan Smith Building and an innovative program of learning.

These progressions are to be applauded, and will no doubt ensure the School maintains its status as an edifying institution, both in stature and in reputation – a reputation reflected throughout The University of Queensland, an establishment in which my predecessor Governor, and the University’s first Chancellor, Sir William MacGregor, sought to instil the finest traditions of an institution of higher learning,

I am also both professionally and personally indebted to the TC Beirne School of Law – and not the least of which because it was in the Law Library where I met Kaye!

As a former graduate and Patron of the UQ Pro Bono Centre, and now as Governor and the Official Visitor of The University of Queensland, I commend all who have contributed to the achievement of excellence in this law school. Congratulations!

Paul de Jersey

His Excellency the Honourable Paul de Jersey AC Governor of Queensland

The Honourable Catherine Holmes, Chief Justice of Queensland

I transferred to the University of Queensland Law School in 1977 from a younger, better resourced university and was struck by the very different culture and standard of facilities. Some of the staff members were, to put it mildly, eccentric; the student body seemed, for the times, disappointingly conservative; and after a couple of fruitless attempts to find a seat, I never attempted to use the Law Library again. This history gives those conditions a larger context, and I can now make more sense of the period.

Despite some unhappy experiences then, my respect for the Law School was sufficient to make me return to it in the 1990’s to undertake a Master’s degree. That was, consistently with the changes described in this book, a far better experience. The teaching and thesis supervision I received was excellent, although I still did not attempt a return to the library.


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Notwithstanding the fact that there have, in the history of the Law School, been less illustrious periods of the kind I experienced as an undergraduate, its impact on the legal profession in Queensland has unquestionably been profound and important. For decades its graduates have been leaders of the profession. And it is a pleasure to report, from a standpoint of forty years’ observation, that the Law School presently seems to me at one of its highest points, with an extremely promising future. I congratulate the author of this work, which is frank and fair, and the School itself on its present state of excellence. Catherine Holmes The Hon Catherine Holmes, Chief Justice of Queensland

Foreword by Professor Sarah Derrington

It is a privilege to be leading the T C Beirne School at this particular moment in its history, the significance of which, for me at least, is underscored by this historical account of the School. I am grateful to Dr Michael White OAM QC for his continued enthusiasm for this important project. Shortly after my appointment as Head and Dean of the Law School, I was asked to consider what makes a great law school. My ultimate conclusion was that it was the partnership between the school and the Profession, underpinned by world-class scholarship and rigorous, engaging teaching, which will mark a law school as great. This work highlights the historical contribution of the Profession to the development of the School and that of the exceptional alumni of the School who have gone on to make their marks nationally and internationally in a wide variety of careers. The achievements of the School’s alumni, collectively, are truly remarkable. The challenge for the next phase in the School’s history is to continue to build on the solid foundations that have been established within the School to ensure that it becomes a truly


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great law school, one of which every graduate can be proud, whether a graduate of many years standing, or a student yet to achieve that goal. As an alumna of the School, I am grateful for all the opportunities it has given me, both as a practitioner and as an academic. I am also extremely grateful to the current and former staff of the Law School, who through their commitment to excellence, are determined to see the School continue to flourish. Sarah Derrington Professor Sarah Derrington, Head and Dean, TC Beirne School of Law

Author’s Preface, Acknowledgements and Thanks I am pleased to present this book to mark the 80th anniversary of the formation of the TC Beirne School of Law at the University in 1936. I was one of the co-authors of the 1st edition in 2006 and this edition builds on the excellent work then done by my co-authors and the researchers. This edition has five chapters, which are designed to set out the background to the university and the Law School and its development to the present day. Chapter 1 (1911-1938) describes the events that formed the foundation of the university, on the site now occupied by the Queensland University of Technology and Old Government House in George Street, and its early years. It also includes the first law lectures in 1925 that were funded by the Garrick bequest, the founding of the Law School in 1936 by the Beirne donation and, finally, the first graduates in 1938. Chapter 2 (1939-1949) addresses the years during World War II when the premises at St Lucia now occupied by the Law School were used as the headquarters by General Blamey from which to fight the war in the Pacific. It then goes on to deal with the move by the School from Old Government House precincts to the Forgan Smith building at St Lucia, the contribution by the members of the legal profession as part-time lecturers to give most of the lectures and, finally, to touch on the School’s gradual expansion until 1949. Chapter 3 (1950-1979) then continues the story of this expansion over two decades as the ravages of World War II were repaired, the university protests took place and the Law School built up numbers and skills. Chapter 4 (1980-2006) records the development and changes, including the expansion of the Law Library during those years. The final chapter, Chapter 5 (2007-2016), deals with the changes of focus away from the traditional concentration on preparing students for legal practice to more theory and then back again, and also with the increasing importance placed on higher degrees, research and publications. The chapter concludes with a description of the refurbishment of the Law School part of the Forgan Smith building. One of the major strengths of this publication lies in its appendices. Appendix I was a mammoth task for the 1st edition because it involved compiling a list of all of the graduates of the law school from 1938 until the end of 2005, about 8,000 of them. For this edition the list has been extended to the end of 2015 and that, too, involved much work. It should be noted that the dates of graduation are taken from the graduation


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ceremony booklets, so they often differ in many minds from the year when the graduand took the last lecture and sat the last examination. Appendix II also involved a large amount of research for the 1st edition as no list of the law school staff had ever before been compiled. In the end, it is restricted to the Professors and Readers (Associate Professors) as to go beyond that was beyond our resources. Appendix III, UQLS Presidents, Appendix IV, WALS, JATL and WATL Presidents, and Appendix V, UQ Union Presidents, was not so difficult as records had been kept in most areas, although in some cases it still involved some checking. When we came to Appendix VI, Winners of Selected Scholarships, it involved considerable difficulty as so many of our graduates receive scholarships and most of them are awarded after they have left and beyond the UQ records. We have set out scholarships of which we know and listed the names of the winners of whom we know. Appendix VII lists the law students elected by their peers as the valedictorian for that graduating class where we have been able to ascertain them. Appendix VIII, TCB Graduates who became Superior Court Judges, was compiled from original research done several years ago by the Queensland Supreme Court Library, under the supervision of its able librarian, Mr Aladin Rahemtula. This list is restricted to superior courts as, once again, the resources available did not extend to the large number of graduates who became District Court judges, magistrates, Tribunal members and so forth. Appendix IX sets out the UQ law graduates who have become a Governor-General, Queensland Governors and Chief Justices. The final work, Appendix X, lists the Major Donors, Bequests, Prizes and Awards made to the Law School and again required considerable research to pull them all together into the one list. Records had been kept of the various fund-raising successes, but they were not comprehensive. Whilst I and our research team have striven to compile an accurate book, so much original research has required a lot of work but we are all delighted to have been part of an enterprise that has compiled an important history of a Law School that has contributed to the lives and careers of so many people. Of course so much original research must give rise to some errors but any final errors or shortcomings are mine as I supervised, revised and wrote most of this book and are not to be attributed to any of those who have so kindly assisted. Acknowledgements and Thanks There are a number of acknowledgements that should be made. The first is to the excellent work done by the team for the first edition. Much of it was written by Ryan Gawrych and Emeritus Professor Kaye Saunders kept a scholarly eye on its development. The then UQ Archivist, Megan Lyneham, put in a terrific effort and many of the archival records that were relied on would not have come to light had it not been for her. Further, she was able to steer us through copyright issues where they occurred and also to identify the photographs from which the final selection was made. A major contribution to the 1st edition was made by Nicholas Luke, who was one of the main compilers of the seven appendices and the list of photographs. Nick was available because he had some months to fill in after graduation (BA, Hons I, University Medal; LLB Hons I) before taking up his 2006 Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford University.


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Another major contribution was made to the 1st edition by Dr Rachael Baird, chair of the Heritage Committee, and Ms Kathy Chapman when they took over the formatting and production. We also note the contribution of Ms Roz Sheldrick who was the external relations officer for the Law School. This 2nd edition was truly a team effort with numerous people being so generous with their contribution of time and skills in various parts of the book. It is not feasible to list them all here but I have tried to list all of them in the acknowledgements in the relevant parts of the book and if I have missed anyone I do apologise but the generosity of spirit in helping has been much appreciated. The main researcher was Ms Keilin Anderson who helped me with new material in the chapters and also organised most of the appendices. Ms Inma Beaumont, the Law School Development Officer, Dr Margaret Hammer, UQ Advancement Officer and many others on the UQ staff in various positions have been most helpful. Hon Glen Williams AO, the former Supreme Court judge who studied, taught and lived through many of the events recorded here kindly gave much time to helping me check the facts about graduates and especially those who later became judges of any of the Superior Courts. Associate Professor Peter Billings has been most helpful with information about the mooting and competitions programs as have Professor Derrington and Professor Anthony Cassimatis. Throughout the process members of the professional staff have also been most helpful and, in particular, they include Claudine Kelly and Sharmaine Wells. Mrs Helen Jeffcot, the former Deputy Supreme Court Librarian, has been most generous with her time and skills in editing the final version and also in compiling the Index, no mean feat. Finally, I thank the three persons who kindly contributed to the Forewords to this book, all of whom are Law School graduates. H. E. Hon. Paul de Jersey AC, wrote a foreword for the 1st edition as Chief Justice of Queensland and I thank him for writing one for this edition as Governor of Queensland. Not only is he a graduate of the TCB but His wife Mrs Kaye de Jersey is a former TCB law librarian and several of their children are also graduates. They have a long and distinguished connection with the Law School. The Honourable Chief Justice Catherine Holmes has also kindly written a foreword. She did her LLB at the ANU but obtained a Masters in law at UQ. The Dean and Head of the Law School, Professor Sarah Derrington, has many demands on her time and her foreword and her financial support for research and publication of the 2nd edition of this book and her personal support is much appreciated. Michael White T.C. Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland 2016

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Chapter 1

Foundations of the Law School: 1911-1938

1.1 Establishment of the University of Queensland 1.2 Law in the Faculty of Arts 1.3 Beginnings of the Law School 1.4 Garrick Bequest and Chair of Law 1.5 Thomas Charles Beirne (1860-1949). Donation 1.6 Una Gailey Prentice (nee Bick) (1913-1986). First Female Graduate 1.1 Establishment of the University of Queensland A vigorous debate occurred over several decades for the establishment of a university in Queensland before the University of Queensland was established on 10 December 1909 by an Act of State Parliament to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Queensland’s separation from New South Wales.1 The University itself was founded four months later, becoming the first tertiary education institute in Queensland and the fifth university in Australia. A University Act of 1870 (Qld) had only provided power to conduct local examinations for British universities. In 1874 the Education Commission had supported the founding of a university. The leading lawyers of the day had played a major part in promoting the concept. When Sir Samuel Griffith2 was premier his government had the Governor’s opening speech to Parliament mention the benefits of one. An 1891 Royal Commission chaired by Sir Charles Lilley3 recommended the immediate establishment of a university with five faculties, including law. In 1893 interested citizens established the Queensland University Extension, the first meeting of which was held in the chambers of the then

1 The details of the founding of the University of Queensland are contained in the major book by Thomis, Malcolm A Place of Light and Learning: The University of Queensland’s First Severy-Five Years, UQ Press, 1985. Other, less detailed, publications are Acland, Glenda (University Archivist) and edited by Mainstone, John, 1910-1985 75th Anniversary Handbook, Media and Information Services, UQ; Pascoe, Brian (Ed.), A Guide to the Great Court, Media and Information Services, UQ, 1979, revised and updated 1992. 2 The Right Honourable Sir Samuel Walker Griffith GCMG, QC, (21 June 1845 – 9 August 1920) was an Australian politician, Premier of Queensland, Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, and a principal author of the Constitution of Australia, Wikipedia online at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Griffith; Australian Dictionary of Biography Vol 9, 1983, Online at http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/griffith-sir-samuel-walker-445. 3 Sir Charles Lilley (27 August 1827 – 20 August 1897) was a Premier and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Queensland, Wikipedia online https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lilley; Australian Dictionary of Biography Vol 5, 1974. ADB online at http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/lilley-sir-charles-4020, In the mid-1870s Lilley began a campaign for a university in Queensland and in 1891 chaired a royal commission on university establishment, but did not live to see it founded in 1909, ADB, above, final para.

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barrister, John Laskey Woolcock,4 and both the Sydney and Melbourne Universities affiliated with it.

Sir Samuel Walker Griffith Source: University of Queensland Archives: UQA S655 A45

The next substantive move did not come until 1906, when the Parliament passed a resolution in favour of a university, and nominated the site as a portion of Victoria Park, in Brisbane. That year the University Extension organized a major congress, which was presided over by Sir Pope A. Cooper, Chief Justice,5 whose report made major and detailed proposals and drafted a Bill. From this was also formed the Queensland University Movement. Some political instability marked those years which delayed things, but in 1908 the Kidston Government announced a positive intention to build one. On 10 December 1909, Queensland Jubilee Day,6 the newly arrived Governor Sir William MacGregor7 signed the University Bill and the then Government House, now in

4 The Honourable John Laskey Woolcock (7 November 1861 – 18 January 1929) was a barrister and Supreme Court judge in Queensland, Wikipedia online https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Laskey_Woolcock; Queensland Supreme Court library online at http://www.sclqld.org.au/judicial-papers/judicial-profiles/profiles/jlwoolcock. 5 Sir Pope Alexander Cooper KCMG (12 May 1846 – 30 August 1923) was an attorney-general and a chief judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland, Wikipedia online https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Alexander_Cooper; Australian Dictionary of Biography Vol 8, 1982, online at http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/cooper-sir-pope-alexander-5771. 6 It was on 10 December, 1859 that the newly arrived Governor Sir George Bowen, read the Proclamation declaring the establishment of the separate Colony of Queensland. 7 Sir William MacGregor (1846-1919), was born in Scotland and qualified as a medical practitioner. He joined the British Colonial Service and his postings included that of the Administrator of British New Guinea from 1888 to 1895 when he became its first Lieutenant-Governor. He was Governor of Queensland from 1909 to 1914 and the Brisbane suburb of Macgregor is named after him.

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the grounds of the Queensland University of Technology, was the designated site. The 20 members of the first University Senate were gazetted on 16 April 1910, which is usually taken as the foundation date for the university, and the Senate first met on 22 April. Sir William MacGregor was elected Chancellor, Mr. R. H Roe, the Inspector-General of Schools,8 was elected as the Vice-Chancellor9 and a committee system established. As mentioned above, the site reserved for the new university was part of the Old Government House in George Street, although over the next few decades, it expanded to include various other buildings throughout the George Street precinct.

Old Government House, 1910 Source: University of Queensland Archives: UQA S178 B6

With classes commencing in 1911, the University offered traditional courses in Arts and Physical Sciences. It was always intended that the University would include law and medical schools, even though the facilities were then unavailable. The desire to establish these schools was nonetheless so strong, that they were included as pro forma faculties when the University first opened in 1911. This enabled the University to grant a number

8 Mr Roe formerly the headmaster of Brisbane Grammar School and played a major role in education in Queensland. 9 At that time the Vice-Chancellor was an honorary position, akin to the present Deputy Chancellor’s position.


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of degrees ad eundem gradum (to the same degree – honorary grant of a degree recognizing the award by another university). The first registrar, F.W.S. Cumbrae-Stewart, a lawyer, was appointed on 1 September 1910 and the first four professors appointed on 8 December: J.L. Michie, B.D. Steele, A.J. Gibson and H.J. Priestly. In March 1911 the university students were admitted and the first graduation was held at the Exhibition Hall on 1 June 1911, at which 180 degrees were awarded ad eundem gradum, recognizing degrees from other universities and some Doctor of Laws honoris causa, recognizing the contribution of selected persons towards the establishment of the university.

F.W.S. Cumbrae-Stewart Source: University of Queensland Archives: UQA S250 P4


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Cumbrae Stewart KC, DCL10 was Registrar of UQ over 1910-1925 and the Garrick Professor of Law over 1925-1936.11 He was born in Canterbury, NZ in 1865, educated at Melbourne and Geelong Grammar Schools and at Christ Church, Oxford University where he took History (Hons) and then a BCL (1887). He was called to the Bar in London 1887 and returned to Australia in 1888 (and later graduated BCL in 1897).12 He practised law in Victoria and then in Brisbane (1890-1903) and joined the Brisbane firm of Thynne & Macartney until he was appointed the first UQ Registrar in 1910.13 After the Garrick Bequest in 1923 to establish a Chair in Law, see Section 1.4 in this chapter, Cumbrae Stewart was appointed as the first incumbent and he then taught law into the BA degree until the Law School was established in 1936, see next section.14 He was very vigorous in many fields in the University and in the wider community. He retired from the University in 1936 when the Law School was established and died in Melbourne in 1938, aged 73 years. He married Zina Hammond in 1905 and they had one son, born in 1908.15 The university activities gradually expanded. Staff were appointed, a Department of Correspondence Study was established and Regional Lecture Tours conducted to accommodate scholars who could not physically attend, which went some way to cater for the sentiment that the university was to serve the people of the whole State and not just those in the Brisbane area. During World War I (1914-1918) the studies continued, albeit with many of the young men away on war service16 and after the peace four new chairs were established.17 Mr. J.D. Story18 chaired a Senate Select Committee on university organization and expansion, adopted by the Senate in 1920, which guided the steady expansion during the 1920s. This then was the background for the expansion of the Arts Faculty to include some law subjects and a step towards the creation of the law school in 1936. 1.2 Law in the Faculty of Arts The genesis of the University law school really began in 1920 when the Senate adopted a report of the Select Committee on University Organisation and Expansion, mentioned above. The report set out proposed future expanded activities and paramount among these developments was the ‘provision for a lectureship in law under the Faculty of Arts’. A

10 Francis William Sutton (Frank) Cumbrae-Stewart (1865–1938) was a barrister and university professor; Wikipedia online https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Cumbrae-Stewart; Australian Dictionary of Biography Vol. 8 1981, online at http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/cumbrae-stewart-francis-william-sutton-5841. 11 Helen Gregory Vivant Professores, 1987, UQ Fryer Publication, 27. 12 Helen Gregory Vivant Professores, above, 27. 13 Helen Gregory Vivant Professores, above, 27-28. 14 Helen Gregory Vivant Professores, above, 28-29. 15 Helen Gregory Vivant Professores, above, 29. 16 At the outbreak of World War I in 1914 the teaching staff totalled 32 and the students 231 of which 151 were day students, 44 evening students and 36 external students. 17 Philosophy, Geology, Biology and Physics. 18 John Douglas Story devoted several decades of service to the University of Queensland as Vice-Chancellor, most of it honorary, and was a major contributor to its many successes during this period. His grandson John D Story also devoted years of service to the University on the Senate from May 2006 and as Chancellor from 2009 to 2015; as to whom see Chapter 5.

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fully functioning Faculty of Law was placed last on the list mainly because of lack of funds to pay for it. Lack of finance bedeviled the whole university, but with the bequest of £10,000 from the estate of Miss K.C Garrick in honour of her father, the Senate was able to act in 1923. The principal was invested and it was decided to devote the income towards the establishment and maintenance of a Chair in Law to be known as the Garrick Professorship of Law. This eventually facilitated the creation of a department of law within the Faculty of Arts, and while this enabled students to enroll in a small number of law courses,19 it did not meet the minimum requirements for students to gain admission as barristers or solicitors. The BA graduates then completed their legal studies with subjects and exams held by the Law Society and the Bar Association respectively for admission by the Supreme Court to practice and entry on the respective Rolls of practitioners. On 22 May 1923 a conference was held between the Senate and representatives of the Bar Association and Solicitors’ Board which urged upon the Senate the desirability of establishing a full teaching faculty of law.20 Chief Justice McCawley21 also desired that the University should also become the sole examining body for law examinations in Queensland and that the membership of any teaching faculty should be such as to make due provision towards that end.22 While the representations put forward at the conference received the earnest consideration of the Senate, the question resolved itself into one of finance. The University Finance Committee advised the Senate that the immediate expenditure which would be involved in the establishment of a full faculty of law would be approximately £2,000 per annum, yet only £1,200 derived from student fees and the Garrick Bequest could be set aside annually for the proposed school to assist. It was suggested that the deficit of £800 per annum could be subsidized by the State Government but the Under Secretary of the Department of Public Instruction decisively rejected this proposal.23 In the face of limited resources it was suggested as an alternative by the Finance Committee to deplete the University’s McCaughey Fund to set apart for law purposes an unallocated amount of £3,000 that at the time stood to the credit of the fund. This amount together with the annual allocation of £1,200 would enable the Senate to run a full faculty

19 As of 1928, the courses on offer under the Faculty of Arts were Roman Law, Jurisprudence, Public International Law and Constitutional Law. The legally useful courses in Public Administration, Governance and Constitutional History were also available in addition to Latin (which was a subject necessary for admission as a Barrister or Solicitor for many years).. 20 File Note, Re Requirements Faculty of Law, Batch No 23/977, UQA S130, June 1923. 21 The Honourable Thomas William McCawley (24 July 1881 – 16 April 1925) was a controversial appointment to the Supreme Court opposition to which gave rise to a number of cases. He was chief justice of Queensland 1922-1925; Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_McCawley; Australian Dictionary of Biography Vol 10, 1986. 22 Report University of Queensland Faculty of Law, UQA S130 Box 3, 1924. 23 Letter dated 4th December 1923 from Under Secretary, Department of Public Instruction to the Registrar, University of Queensland.

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of law for a period of five years only. By December 1923, without the possibility of future secured funds and as a temporary faculty was undesirable, the Senate deferred any decision on establishing a faculty of law until the Garrick Professorship had been appointed. The need to appoint a suitable candidate to the Garrick Professorship necessitated widespread advertisement of the position among legal academics, with applications being invited in Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States. With the approval of the Senate in November 1924, the position of Garrick Professor of Law was advertised at a fixed salary of £800 per annum subject to a deduction of 10% for endowment assurance purpose but with the right to legal practice.24 By September of the following year, the University had received 10 serious applications from across the Commonwealth and it was decided that Professor Francis W.S. Cumbrae-Stewart, the former UQ University Registrar (mentioned above), be appointed to the position commencing 1 January 1926.25 With the Garrick Professorship established some law subjects were at last being taught under the ambit of the Faculty of Arts. The inaugural professorial lecture was given by Cumbrae-Stewart on 15 March 1926 following the unveiling of the commemorative bronze tablet by the then Lord Mayor of Brisbane, Alderman W.A. Jolly.26 Until the establishment of the full Faculty of Law a decade later, Professor Cumbrae-Stewart taught the few legal courses available in subjects such as Jurisprudence and Roman Law. Whilst renowned as possessing a brilliant intellect, Cumbrae-Stewart also demanded absolute excellence from his students and has been remembered as a man that commanded respect, even terror, rather than affection from those enrolled in his courses.27 This was an advance, but the limited number of subjects and the inability of students to meet minimum requirements necessary for admission from university studies,28 made the need for the establishment of a permanent teaching faculty of law readily apparent.

24 Upon review of the University Senate, the initial salary of £800 per annum was increased to £1000 per annum from the start of 1925. 25 The ten applicants were: Professor Francis W.S Cumbrae -Stewart, Professor James Adamson, Mr. Daniel J.D Bevan, Mr. K. Drake-Brockman, Mr. Eugene Thomas Finn, Mr. Sheepshanks, Mr. Neville V. Henderson, Mr Lloyd C. Hutchinson, Dr. Donald Kerr, and Mr. Neville G. McWilliams. University of Queensland Senate Minutes, 25 September 1925. 26 The tablet was fixed to a wall inside the entrance door to the University library in the old George Street University precinct, which is now the site of the Queensland University of Technology. After the law school moved to St. Lucia in 1949 the tablet was affixed to the wall outside the staff common room (later named the Sir Samuel Griffith Room).on Level 3. 27 F.W.S Cumbrae-Stewart in Helen Gregory Vivant Professores: distinguished members of the University of Queensland, 1910-1940 (1987), pp.28-9. 28 Law students in Queensland were then, in the main, admitted from courses established by the Bar Association of Queensland and the Solicitors Board. Those who gained their BA were exempt from Stage 1 of such studies and only had then to pass the professional subjects to be eligible for admission. For a review of the development of legal education in Queensland see White, M. “The Development of the Divided Legal Profession in Queensland” (2004) 23 University of Queensland Law Journal 296-318.


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Professor Cumbrae-Stewart with law students in the BA Degree in 1929 The names of those in the photo are written on the back of the original and, as far as it can be discerned, they are:. Back Row: P H Bowden, M McAlpine (?), J McCormack, C Sutton, J(?) Gaffney, B P Mahoney, A L Bennett, C B Byrne, B Leoanden (?). Centre Row: D N Gredden, D S Maxwell, R F J Cormack, R Hamilton, G H B Eagles, N S Stable, E I Sykes, H Lanlon (?). Front Row: R F Carter, Professor Cumbrae-Stewart, E L Johnson.

Source: University of Queensland Archives: UQA S177 P1393 In August 1928, a petition to the Supreme Court Chief Justice James William Blair29 by 14 students for the establishment of a fully functioning faculty of law reinvigorated the debate.30 It was pointed out that under the arrangement at that time it was necessary for students to go to southern universities in order to obtain a degree in law. Bachelor of Arts student that availed themselves of all the law subjects then on offer still required an

29 The Honourable Sir James William Blair KCMG (16 May 1870 – 18 November 1944), politician, lawyer and judge. He was a judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland from 1922 and Chief Justice 1925-1940, Wikipedia online https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Blair_(Australian_judge); Australian Dictionary of Biography Vol.7, 1979, online at http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/blair-sir-james-william-5266. In the parliamentary debates on the establishment of the University of Queensland Blair had argued unsuccessfully for the waiving of all fees and in 1915-16 he became a member of the University Senate. He was reappointed in 1926 and was elected Chancellor in 1927 and moved to improve the university's primitive accommodation and by 1930 it had accepted a gift of 200 acres (81 ha) at St Lucia from Dr J. O. Mayne. The work of creating a new campus occupied much of his time, but World War II prevented its completion before his death in 1944, see ADB fourth last para. 30 Petition on a Proposed Faculty of Law for the University of Queensland, dated Wednesday 1 August 1928. The fourteen students that signed the petition were: Reg. F Carter, D.S Maxwell, D.N Gredden, E.Q Sykes, Norton Stable, G.H.B Eagles, Percy F Wright, Marian B Walker, E.A Francis, R Hamilton, M Hanger, M.J Boge, Ralph F.J Cormack, and E.C Johnson.



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additional two years to seek admission as a barrister and at least an additional three years to become a solicitor.31 As the only educational authority in Queensland affording tertiary education and instruction in law, the need for the full university faculty of law was apparent to all.32 1.3 Simple Beginnings With finances still inadequate to maintain a functioning faculty of law, the early 1930s were spent lobbying a variety of interests throughout the State to meet the necessary costs.33 Despite the efforts of senior people such as Professor Cumbrae-Stewart and Chief Justice Blair requests for assistance were all unsuccessful. By the end of 1934. however, the University had approached Thomas Charles Beirne, the proprietor of a large Brisbane department store and local business personality. Mr. Beirne was at this stage also Warden of the University and had on prior occasions commissioned legal works from members of staff,34 thereby forming a natural focus for requests of assistance. Aware of the acute educational and utilitarian benefits to Queensland of an established faculty of law at the University, Mr. Beirne was originally willing to donate a sum of £10,000 towards its establishment. While this sum would have proved more than sufficient to ensure the establishment and future survival of the faculty, Professor Cumbrae-Stewart and Chief Justice Blair convinced Mr. Beirne to increase this to an endowment of £20,000 paid in installments of £5,000 per annum for the subsequent four years. In a letter dated 13 April 1935 Mr Beirne advised the Senate of his intention to make the gift in this amount to meet the ‘urgent need of the University in establishing a faculty of law’.35 With its only impediment removed, the University Senate gratefully accepted the offer on 10 May 1935 and approved the Law Faculty. The first payment was made shortly thereafter and the University received the final instalment on 29 March 1939.36

31 The reason for this anomaly was that the Barrister’s Board had granted exemption to graduate students from the intermediate bar examination while those who intended to become solicitors were not exempted from the intermediate solicitors’ examination, despite its lower educational status. 32 An impassioned report of the Committee of the Board of Faculties and accompanying Explanatory Memorandum by Garrick Professor Cumbrae -Stewart in 1928 summarised the scope of studies in law at the University at that time and the pressing need for further legal instruction to become available in order to maintain the standard of the legal profession within the State. The arguments put forward were similar to those that had been voiced on numerous occasions in the proceeding years; Report of the Committee of the Board of Faculties on Matters Relating to the Establishment of an Active Faculty of Law in the University of Queensland, 1928. 33 File Note, Re Requirements Faculty of Law, Batch No 23/977, UQA S130. 34 For example, in 1933 Mr Beirne guaranteed the cost of £400 for the publication of a book by Professor A.C.V Melbourne entitled “Early Constitutional Development in Australia”; University of Queensland Senate Minutes, 2 January 1942. 35 Letter dated 13 April 1935 from the Hon. T.C Beirne to the University of Queensland Senate. 36 File Note, ‘Bequests TC Beirne School of Law’, Batch No.35/518, UQA S130, March 1939.


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TC Beirne and others c.1935

L to R: Archbishop James Duhig, T C Beirne, Dr W N Robertson, Sir James Blair (Chancellor), Professor Steele, J McCaffrey, Professor Hawken, W. L’Estrange.

Source: University of Queensland Archives: UQA S177 P7 With adequate funding firmly secured, the Senate was able to implement plans that had been on hold for almost a decade and quickly organized resources and rooms to house the new faculty. There was, however, some debate amongst the Senate as to the composition of the new faculty, with guidance being sought from the way in which the southern universities had gone about staffing their law schools. The University of Melbourne’s law school for example consisted of only one professor and four part-time lecturers and the University of Sydney consisted of two professors and nine full-time lecturers. The practicality of the situation faced by the Senate meant that it was decided, for the time being at least, that the Faculty of Law at the University of Queensland should be run only with the Garrick Professor, supported by a small staff of full-time academics. Remaining staff was to be drawn from part-time specialists from the legal profession who could impart practical knowledge to the student body. Professor Robert Yorke Hedges replaced Professor Cumbrae-Stewart in the Garrick Chair, whose appointment to the position expired at the end of 1935 and who decided to retire at 71 years of age. In May 1936, six students commenced studies for a Bachelor of Laws within the newly formed Faculty of Law under the direction of Professor Hedges, the second Garrick Professor of Law.37

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Professor Robert Yorke Hedges Source: University of Queensland Archives: UQA S135 P

Hedges, Garrick Professor from 1936 to 1945, was born in Manchester, England in 1903, educated at Manchester High School and Victoria University, Manchester where he won many academic prizes, graduating in 1924.38 He then had research positions in Harvard University, USA and Geneva, Switzerland and was awarded his LLM from Manchester for a thesis on arbitral settlements in international law and he returned to Manchester as a lecturer in law in 1928. He graduated LLD in 1932 becoming a Senior Lecturer.39 He arrived at UQ to the newly established Law Faculty in May 1936 as a brilliant young professor. War broke out in 1939 and he became a Major in the British Army in 1942 and left Brisbane to undertake special military tasks in Britain. After the war he did not return as had been expected, but resigned from UQ in 1945 and held judicial position in various Colonies in the British Civil Service, dying in England in 1963.40 The Faculty of Law provided fairly rudimentary legal education in its first year of operation. With the Senate still seeking applications for additional staff, Professor Hedges was left with the task of teaching all of the classes that were on offer. With only six students commencing their legal education for the first time, only general introductory subjects (many the same as those previously available under the old Faculty of Arts course) were made available, with the intention of expanding the curriculum as the first cohort of students advanced in their studies.

38 Helen Gregory Vivant Professores, above, 48. 39 Helen Gregory Vivant Professores, above, 48-49. 40 Helen Gregory Vivant Professores, above, 27.


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The commencement of the 1937 academic year saw enrolments in the Law School double and the introduction of additional courses.41 Alongside the first-year staple subjects of Roman Law, Constitutional Law and Jurisprudence, additional courses in areas such as Equity, Criminal Law, Contracts and Torts law were also made available.42 This necessitated the expansion of the staff to include a new full-time lecturer, Dr. Thomas P. Fry, and several other specialist lecturers drawn from the local legal fraternity. For the next few years enrolments continued to increase, as did the number of legal academics who taught the various courses. The introduction of the Bachelor of Laws degree meant that students now satisfied the requirements for admission in Queensland and September 1938 saw the first awards ceremony for students graduating with a Bachelor of Laws. Chief Justice Blair and Professor Hedges presented the awards in alphabetical order to Una Bick, Lex Seymour Dunn and Lionel Morrison as the Faculty’s first graduates. Reginald Francis Carter, later a District Court Judge, was awarded his Master of Laws.43 In April the next year, Harry Talbot Gibbs44 and Thomas George Matthews45 were awarded their Bachelor of Law with First Class Honours. They had been part of the first class but the requirement for their Honours First Class involved extra study and exams, so their graduation occurred the next year. Una Bick was the first UQ female law graduate and in 1946 she married Anthony Prentice, a graduate of the 1940 graduating class, after he returned from his war service. See Section 1.3.3 in this chapter for further information on Una Bick. With the graduation of these students, not only had the dream of a fully functioning law school been realized, but it also marked the maturation of the University of Queensland and its alignment with southern institutions in providing a sound university law degree.

41 The University of Queensland Book of Statistics, 1959, p61. 42 Calendar of the University of Queensland, 1937, p196. 43 The list of law graduates is set out in Appendix I. 44 The Right Honourable Sir Harry Talbot Gibbs GCMG., AC., KBE., BA., LL.B., LL.M., Hon LL.D., Hon D.Univ., QC, Chief Justice of the High Court 1981-1987. 45 Later the UQ Legal Officer for many years.


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Garrick Plaque Source: University of Queensland

1.4 Garrick Bequest and Chair of Law James Francis Garrick (1836-1907) was born on 10 January 1836 at Sydney, the second son of James Francis Garrick who migrated in the early 1830s to manage a flour-mill.46 Like his elder brother, James was articled to a Sydney solicitor. He was admitted to practice in December 1860 and his brother practised in Christchurch, New Zealand. In 1861 Garrick moved to Brisbane, where only four attorneys were then in practice. He went into partnership with Charles Lilley,47 built up a flourishing practice and became solicitor to the City Council. Garrick represented East Moreton in the Legislative Assembly in 1867-68. In 1869 the Lilley ministry appointed him to the Legislative Council but he soon left for London and after an absence of two sessions his seat was declared vacant. In London he resumed his legal studies and was called to the Bar of the Middle Temple in 1873. Next year he returned to Brisbane and was admitted to the Queensland Bar. He became a Queensland

46 The sources for this history of the Garrick Chair are taken from the Australian Dictionary of Biography Entry by Professor Ross Johnston (using sources from RS Browne, A journalist’s memories (Brisbane, 1927); C Lack, ‘Colonial representation in the nineteenth century’, JRHSQ, 8 (1965-66); Argus, 12 May 1890; The Times, 14 Jan 1907; Col Sec letters to and from agent-general (QA); Griffith papers (Dixon Lib, Sydney).); The Brisbane Courier 9 March 1926; material held in the UQ Archives, researched by Ms Megan Lyneham, especially the UQ Senate papers.; material held in UQ Records Management Services, researched by its manager, Ms Marguerite Stringer. 47 Later Sir Charles Lilly (1827-1897), Chief Justice of Queensland (1879-1893). Lilley resigned after an uproar over his conduct in and judgment on a trial in which he set aside the verdict of the jury, was partisan in his judgment against some of the defendants, favoured his son who had appeared in the trial and was overturned in severe terms by the Court of Appeal; see entry in Australian Dictionary of Biography Vol. 5, 1974; online adb.anu.edu.au/biography/Lilley-sir-charles-4020.


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crown prosecutor. Meanwhile in 1877 he had re-entered politics for East Moreton. In February 1878 he was appointed secretary for public lands and mines in the ministry of John Douglas48 and in December he became attorney-general which office he held for two months before the government fell. From 1879 he was prominent in the Opposition led by Samuel W. Griffith to the McIlwraith government until November 1883 when Griffith took over the government and appointed Garrick temporarily as colonial treasurer. In 1882, whilst in politics, he was appointed Queen’s Counsel. In 1883-84 he was postmaster-general, a post that customarily involved leadership of the government in the Legislative Council, to which he was duly appointed. In June 1884 Griffith appointed Garrick as agent-general for immigration in London as minister without portfolio while still holding a seat in the Executive Council. Apart from an interruption from June 1888 to December 1890, Garrick held his post in London until October 1895 and was very active in the many and various immigration programs. He was appointed CMG in 1885 and KCMG in 1886.49 In 1895 he was appointed a judge of the Queensland Supreme Court but did not assume office. He was a director of several companies and he remained in London until he died at his home on 12 January 1907. He was survived by his wife Catherine, daughter of Dr JJ Cadell of Brisbane, whom Garrick had married on 3 January 1865 and from which marriage there were three children.50 Described as a ‘brilliant lawyer, a well set up handsome man, cultivated and of great personal charm’, Garrick was also a fine speaker, very courtly and diplomatic. Sir James Garrick’s daughter, Katherine Cecie Garrick, left provision in her Will51 to endow a professorship in law or medicine and also to construct a tablet in the memory of her father in the following terms:

‘My Trustee shall hold one moiety of my Residuary Estate UPON TRUST to pay the income to my mother Dame Catherine Garrick if she shall survive me during her life and from and after the death of my said mother UPON TRUST to pay free of all duties to the Senate of the University of Queensland the sum of Fifty pounds to be expended in setting up a tablet in the buildings of the University to the memory of my late father Sir James Francis Garrick K.C.M.G. and the further sum of Ten thousand pounds free of all duties for the purpose of founding a Professorship either of law or medicine as may seem best to the University to be entitled the James Francis Garrick Professorship of Law or Medicine as the case may be ……’.

48 John Douglas was the founder of the Queensland ‘legal’ Douglas family which has produced many prominent judges, barristers and solicitors. 49 The British and Colonial Honours of Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George and Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George respectively. 50 The three children were Katherine Cecie Garrick, James Cadell Garrick and Francis Cadell Garrick. 51 The Will was dated 22 November 1916.


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In 1923 the Senate decided on a Chair in Law, in the Faculty of Arts, to be called the ‘James Francis Garrick Professorship of Law’, and appointed to it Professor Francis W. S. Cumbrae-Stewart, details about whom are set out above. A bronze tablet was constructed and it was unveiled on 15 March 1926 by the then Lord Mayor of Brisbane. Also as mentioned, the first Garrick appointment was made in 1926 to Professor Cumbrae-Stewart until he resigned in 1936 when Professor Hedges was appointed head and dean of the new Law Faculty. Hedges resigned in 1945 and Acting Honorary Professor A.D. McGill (a practising barrister) held the Garrick Chair from 1945 to 1948. In 1948 Professor W.N.L. Harrison became Garrick Professor of Law and also dean and head. From 1 January 1962 Professor E. I. Sykes was appointed Professor of Public Law but the Garrick chair stayed with Harrison until his death on 16 July 1966.52 The Garrick chair was then transferred to Sykes, he then being head of the Law Faculty, with the Vice-Chancellor’s approval given for it on 2 August 1966. Professor Tarlo was appointed the acting head and dean on 30 April and Sykes’ resignation, previously offered but delayed until 11 May 1967 for the new head to settle in, then took effect53 on which date the Garrick Chair then lapsed. In November 1968 the UQ Senate decided on a fourth chair in law and advertised for a Garrick Chair of Law associated with the Headship of the Department of Law, to which the existing three chairs could apply. However, after a report was made by the president of the Professorial Board (E C Webb) the Senate resolved to appoint a fourth chair and after that appointment was made then to allocate the Garrick Chair. On 13 October 1969 Professor Kevin W Ryan54 was appointed Head of Department for five years and, after a recommendation by a committee to that effect, Ryan was appointed to the Garrick Chair for five years from 1 December 1969 and then it lapsed until he was reappointed to that chair from 1979 to 1985. It then lapsed again until Professor Gabriel Moens held the chair for five years from 14 October 1999. The appointment of Professor James Allan was made by the UQ Senate from 5 February 2004 which chair he still holds.55 1.5 Thomas Charles Beirne (1860-1949). Donation One of the first millionaires in Australian history and a founder of the Brisbane business community, Thomas Charles Beirne, was born on 9 July 1860 at Ballymacurly, Roscommon, Ireland. The son of a farmer, he received very little in the way of formal

52 In July 1967 the Senate appointed Mr D J Whalan of the Australian National University, to the chair previously held by Harrison. 53 Professor Sykes took up a position at the Melbourne University Law School. On 14 December 1967 the Senate approved that Dr K C T Sutton, senior lecturer in law, University of Sydney, be appointed to the chair. 54 Dr Ryan had been a Reader but resigned to join the Australian Department of Trade as an Australian Trade Commissioner and Councillor in Rome, Italy, being familiar, amongst other languages, with Italian. 55 Much of this information on the Garrick Chair was taken from the UQ Archives with research done by Megan Lyneham, a UQ library researcher and archivist. Further detail on the holders of the Garrick Chair may be found in Michael White “History of the Garrick Chair at the TC Beirne School of Law” (2010) UQ Law Journal 335-346.


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education before being apprenticed as a draper to his cousin Dominick Owens. In March 1881 he joined M. D. Piggott who convinced the young T.C. Beirne to migrate to Australia.

Thomas Charles Beirne Source: Notable Men of Queensland, 1950; courtesy of Mr. Bruce Ibsen, UQ Archives

After migrating aboard the Lusitania Beirne arrived in Melbourne in February 1884 before heading to Brisbane to enter into a partnership with Piggott in opening a drapery store in Stanley Street. After marrying Ann Kavanagh in April 1887, Beirne opened his own store in Fortitude Valley in 1891. The phenomenal success of his store resulted in expansion into other retail endeavors and an extensive portfolio of shares and bonds. By the 1900s, T. C. Beirne had become one of the most influential men in Queensland and helped to transform Brisbane into a major retail centre. His financial success and corporate acumen meant that he was also a welcome addition to many of Queensland’s company boards of the time, including the Brisbane Tramway Co, Queensland Trustees, the Atlas Assurance Co and the British Australian Cotton Association. Beirne enjoyed the confidence of many in the business community and he was also heavily supportive of the educational development of the State, giving generously to Catholic Church schools and the fledgling University of Queensland. He was elected to


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the University Council in 1927 and was Warden from 1928 to 1941. The name T.C. Beirne was to become synonymous with the University’s law school when, in 1935, he donated £20,000 to establish a fully operational faculty of law, although the name ‘T.C. Beirne School of Law’ was not popularized until the name was promoted by Professor Geoffrey De Q Walker in the late 1980s. The amount bequeathed was double that originally intended after Beirne was persuaded to increase the bequest by Chief Justice of Queensland, Sir James Blair, and the Garrick Professor of Law, Francis Cumbrae-Stewart. The donation enabled rectification of the lack of effective tertiary legal education in the state of Queensland. During his time as Warden, Beirne continued to be closely involved with the development of the law school and commissioned various works to be written by the academic staff of the law school. After resigning from the University Council in 1941, Beirne retained an active interest in the school until his death on 21 April 1949. At his death, T.C. Beirne’s business acumen was demonstrated by his leaving an estate was sworn for probate at £1 251 574 in Queensland alone. There were also assets outside the State.56 1.6 Una Gailey Prentice (nee Bick) (1913-1986). First Female Gradate As the state of Queensland’s first ever female law school graduate, Una Bick was to enjoy numerous distinctions as the first woman to succeed in various aspects of the legal profession. Una Gailey Bick grew up within the City Botanical Gardens where her father was its curator and they lived in a house in its grounds. Completing her secondary education at St Margaret’s College, Una gained a university scholarship to study for a Bachelor of Arts. She was awarded her Arts degree in 1935. The year 1936 was the first time the University of Queensland offered a Bachelor of Laws and the idea of continuing her studies in law appealed to Una. She enjoyed the support of her parents and others but she was to find the male legal establishment was not then encouraging to women, something she was to battle with for most of her professional life. In September 1938, because the degree awards of the first three law school graduates were presented in alphabetical order, Una Bick became the state’s first law degree graduate and subsequently the first woman to be admitted to the Bar of the Supreme Court of Queensland.57 While women in Queensland had been given the right to practice and train as lawyers since 1905, Una found that the reality was very different. After numerous rejections for jobs as a solicitor or barrister and no response from any of the government departments to which she applied, Una settled for a job cataloguing the collection of Sir James Blair in the beginnings of a Law Library. The outbreak of World War II in 1939 brought with it mixed blessings. With the number of practicing lawyers dwindling as men signed up for war service, the Commonwealth

56 See Australian Dictionary of Biography Vol 7, online at adb.anu.edu.au/biography/beirne-thomas-charles 5186, and research done by Ryan Gawrych. 57 The first woman admitted as a solicitor was Agnes McWhinney, in 1915.


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Deputy Crown Solicitor needed legal officers and responded to Una’s long-forgotten application. Una was initially employed as a temporary clerk but later became the Commonwealth’s first female prosecutor. Amongst those who joined the armed forces at that time was Una’s future husband, Tony Prentice.58 With the end of the war in 1945, Una left the Commonwealth Crown Prosecutor’s office in anticipation of dismissal once male legal officers returned to work and she joined the private firm of Stephens and Tozer in Brisbane. The following year Una and Tony were married upon his return from the war and for a short time both husband and wife practised law. Notwithstanding this, Una’s legal career was short-lived and she opted for the role of homemaker after the birth of the couple’s son, Roger, in 1952.

Una Prentice after receiving a Doctor of Laws, Ad Honoris Causa, in 1986 Source: University of Queensland Archives: University News 254 No. 4699

In 1985, Una Prentice received an honorary doctorate from the Law School in recognition of her contribution to women, the legal profession and the university. She died in 1986. The Women Lawyers Association of Queensland Inc. has an annual Una Prentice Award in her memory in collaboration with the College of Law, Sydney.59

58 Anthony Graham Prentice graduated with his Bachelor or Laws (UQ) in 1940. 59 Mostly derived from research done by Ryan Gawrych, then a UQ law student and Research Assistant to the author; Heather Grant, Great Queensland Women, 2005, Qld Office for Women, Dept. of Local Government, Planning, Sport and Recreation; Susan Purdon and Aladin Rahemtula (eds) A Woman’s Place, Supreme Court of Queensland Library, 2005. For the Women’s Lawyers Association Queensland see; www. http://wlaq.com.au.


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Chapter 2

World War II and the Move to St. Lucia: 1939-1950

2.1 Preparation for War 2.2 World War II (1939-1945)

2.2.1 Secret Operations Room and Offices 2.2.2 UQ Lawyers Lost

2.2.2.1 Alexander Charles McNab (27 July 1918-2 May 1943) 2.2.2.2 Chester James Parker (29 July 1916-11 August 1942) 2.2.2.3 George Douglas Rutherford Avery (24 July 1918-22 October

1942) 2.2.2.4 Charles Stumm (29 August 1913-13 May 1944) 2.2.2.5 Harrold Graham Pace (31 October 1916-13 May 1942)

2.3 New Law School Home at St Lucia 1948-1949 2.1 Preparation for War With its first graduates having only graduated in 1938, 1939 marked a period of great challenge for the fledgling Law Faculty and the University as a whole. With the outbreak of war in Europe on 3 September 1939, Australians were once again called upon to join the imperial war effort and send troops, ships and aircrew to the fighting in Europe and later North Africa. Until the Japanese attack on the USA fleet at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, Australia’s commitment to the war mirrored its role in World War I (1914-1918) in that it focused on Europe. However, in early 1942 Japanese forces invaded the territory of Papua New Guinea and then in February 1942 mainland Australia came under attack when Japanese forces commenced air raids on Darwin and the war in the Pacific was on Australia’s doorstep and the likelihood of invasion loomed. For the first two years of the war at least, the Law Faculty presented its courses much as normal. Even though some of its students left to join the Armed Forces, the classes continued and the rate of enrolment was steady1 for 1940 and 1941 as the newly founded Faculty tried to expand and evolve. The American war effort gradually escalated after Pearl Harbour but the Pensacola naval convoy had already arrived at Hamilton Wharves in Brisbane on 22 December 1941, having been redeployed from the American territories when the Japanese forces invaded the Philippines. Australia was in a vulnerable position, with no independent foreign policy or diplomatic corps and only a limited defence capability. Moreover the faith in the British fortress at Singapore had given a false sense of security. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill had promised in August 1940 that naval aid would be forthcoming if Australia and New Zealand were attacked by Japan, but with the proviso

1 According to University statistics, the number of enrolments for the LLB course in 1941 was 28, which was only 3 less than in 1940 and the same as in 1939; see under for the rapid expansion of students after the conclusion of WWII.


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that the mother land had to be defended as a first priority.2 In late 1941, little did Australian leaders know that secretly Churchill and President Roosevelt had agreed to a “Beat Hitler First” strategy that left the British Dominions weak without the armed support promised to them.3 The British navy had sent the battleships Prince of Wales and Repulse but they were unsupported by an aircraft carrier and had been sunk off Malaya by Japanese aircraft in December 1941. The Commonwealth government had already started moving Australia on to a war footing and the Queensland government responded to the initial crisis by promulgating the hard-hitting Public Safety Act of 1941, which gave the executive unlimited powers without resort to Parliament or public scrutiny. Within days of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour on 7 December 1941 the Queensland government released its plans for civil defence which ranged from the provision of extensive air raid shelters, the training of women defence wardens and the use of salt water to fight fires from direct incendiary attacks.4 Urgent preparations, from the boarding of windows to the digging of emplacements and trenches, began all across the city.5 Fortifications and huts erected for temporary military accommodation also appeared as the very fabric of Brisbane changed to respond to the sense of dread anticipation. Major streets in Brisbane like Elizabeth and Anne contained large public air raid shelters. Plans were also afoot for the mass evacuation of women and children by the Army.6 But the physical structure of the city was not the only thing to change in response to events of the day. By August of 1942 almost 60,000 US troops were based in Brisbane and the surrounding area; all under the command of General Douglas MacArthur who established his headquarters in the AMP building in Queen Street.7 The precinct of Queen Street from Edward to Creek Streets became the operational centre of the war effort in the south Pacific. The State and Commonwealth Censors, the Department of Aircraft Production, the Department of Information and the Allied Press Office operated from the Commonwealth Bank Chambers at 239 Queen Street, with a US senior officers’ planning division, the Allied Work Corps, Department of the Interior (Works and Services branch), the Australian Air Corps Training Office and the Commonwealth Oil Refineries Ltd in the National Mutual Life Building at number 239. US senior officers, the Australian Army Inventions Directorate and the Department of Labour and National Service were housed at number 289 in the Colonial Mutual Life Building, with the secret

2 David Day, The Politics of War, 1939-45: from Churchill to MacArthur, Harper Collins, Sydney, 2003, p.72; Graham Freudenberg Churchill and Australia, Macmillan Australia, 2008. 3 Christopher Bayly and Tim Harpur, Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1940 -45, Harvard University Press, 2005. 4 File on state civil defence, Queensland State Archives (QSA) Premiers Department, PRE/6432. 5 Bevan, Scott, Australian Artists at War: Battle Lines, Random House, Sydney, 2004, p186. 6 Report on the evacuation plans for Queensland, 19 May 1942, national Archives of Australia (NAA), Department of the Army, Secret Correspondence, multiple series, (class 401), file 16/402/91. 7 Figures quoted in Bevan, Scott, Australian Artists at War: Battle Lines, Random House, Sydney, 2004, p186 in Thompson, Peter A. and Macklin, Robert, ‘The Battle of Brisbane’, ABC Books, Sydney, 2000, p159.


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allied propaganda unit in the Penny building, Queen Street diagonally across from the AMP. The GPO acted as the central communications hub of the combined Allied war effort in the South West Pacific region. The role played by the Australian Army headquarters in the newly constructed university buildings at St Lucia is set out under. Still then based in the George Street Precinct, the Law Faculty was placed near all of these changes for the war effort. Suddenly Brisbane was a centre of global importance in the defence of the Allied effort against the Japanese forces. The pressures to defend the nation and not simply the distant Empire dramatically impinged on the Law School. At the start of the 1942 academic year, enrolments in law dropped by half.8 Many students suspended their law studies to take up active service, while others postponed the commencement of their university study.9 Some members of staff traded academic gowns for military uniforms. While other departments in the University had staff on active service during the World War I, 1942 was the first time that people in the newly established Law Faculty had to manage service to their country with the demands of academia. Dr Thomas P Fry took up active service with the Army from 1942-1945 and was forced to give up teaching constitutional history, equity and property full-time, although he was still a member of the faculty during the war years and resumed teaching duties at its end. Mr. Mostyn Hanger, a barrister and special part-time lecturer in company law, continued teaching despite his enlistment with the RAAF.10 Many other barristers and solicitors also suspended teaching to go to war. For those that remained, the need to forge ahead and ensure the survival of the Faculty was paramount. With fewer students and a curriculum that was only a few years old, it was necessary to refine some subjects while others, such as the law of the sale of goods, were temporarily dropped altogether.11 While the curriculum as a whole remained relatively unchanged, the war-footing of Brisbane presented challenges to those that undertook the study of law. Classes in torts, jurisprudence and legal ethics were supplemented with instruction in basic first aid and air raid drills, while daily travel to classes in the city meant navigating the maze of troops and temporary military structures.12 Many in the Faculty looked forward to the promised move to the new site at St.Lucia, construction of which began in 1938, but this was put on hold during the war years. 2.2 World War II (1939-1945) On 10 July 1942, the University of Queensland Senate was informed that the Australian military authorities desired to have the use of and enter into occupancy of the Main Building at St Lucia (renamed the Forgan Smith Building in 1967).13 The Vice-

8 The University of Queensland Book of Statistics, 1959, p62. 9 The author is working on a book about the lives and careers of the UQ lawyers killed in WWI which is expected to be published in mid-2017. A short history of them is set out in this chapter. 10 Later Sir Mostyn Hanger, Chief Justice of Queensland. 11 Calendar of the University of Queensland, 1944. 12 ‘Pomp & Circum’, The University of Queensland Graduate Contact, Summer 1995, p14. 13 University of Queensland Senate Minutes, 31 July 1942.


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Chancellor informed the military that while the building was planned to become university property, the Queensland Government had not yet handed it over to the Senate and it was therefore a matter to be handled by the Premier. It was also pointed out that part of the building had already been allocated to the Brisbane and South Coast Hospital Board as an emergency facility and preparations had been made for that purpose.14

Australian Women’s Army Service on Parade Outside Main (later Forgan Smith) Building for review by Lady Gowrie, Honorary Colonel, May 1943

Source: University of Queensland Archives: UQA S178 B54; Australian War Memorial P00884.001

Queensland Premier Forgan Smith gave formal permission on 17 July 1942 for Australian military authorities to take over the new University of Queensland buildings at St.Lucia in order to accommodate the Advanced Land Headquarters for Allied Land Forces in the South West Pacific Area (Landops).15 Preparations for the emergency hospital were suspended and the University was given several weeks to vacate. Nearly all of the books, university documents, records and various works of art from the University Art Gallery, which had been stored in the new buildings at St. Lucia, were relocated to the basement of the old Masonic building in the city.

14 Details of the design and construction of the St Lucia campus, including over these war years, are set out in John W East No Mean Plans: Designing the Great Court at the University of Queensland, 2014. Also see Clive Moore The Forgan Smith: History of a Building and its People at the University of Queensland, 2010. 15 Michele Helmrich & Peter Spearritt, Artists at Wartime St Lucia [exhibition didactic panel] in Defending the North: Queensland in the Pacific War, University Art Museum, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, 2005; John W East No Mean Plans, p.56.


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Commander-in-Chief of Australia’s Military Forces and Commander Allied Land Forces South West Pacific Area General (later field Marshall) Sir Thomas Blamey established his Landops at St Lucia, along with some of over 2,000 military staff,16 on 1 August 1942. For this the military occupied the Main Building, except for a few rooms in which the University had stored equipment, and the Chemistry building. Most of the personnel who worked on the St Lucia site were women, some seconded into the Australian Women’s Army Service (AWAS) from the public service for the war and others recruited directly from other sources.17 A controversial figure, Blamey had previously served as Deputy Commander –in –Chief of British forces in the Middle East in 1941.18 Blamey had major headquarters and staff in Melbourne and later in New Guinea but the St Lucia Landops headquarters became the largest Allied communications centre in the South-West Pacific, the Law Faculty’s future home in the western end of the Forgan Smith building served a key role in the war in the Pacific before its eventual owners were to grace its halls. In the operations rooms, General Blamey and his staff planned campaigns including Borneo, Balikpapan and Lae, while members of the Australian signals section monitored military operations from all over the South-West Pacific, including the first US landing in the Philippines and the re-capture of Singapore.19 In the rooms detailed maps of New Guinea, Borneo and enemy movements were drawn up for intelligence reviews which were taken to the AMP building in the city for daily briefings. In other parts of the Forgan Smith building, personnel examined captured Japanese equipment and members of the AWAS daily handled up to 80,000 administrative and strategic messages in cryptic code.20 General Blamey’s dual responsibilities as Commander Allied Land Forces South West Pacific Area and Commander-in-Chief of the Australian Military Forces meant that he had to travel frequently, mainly between Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane and New Guinea.21 As the Pacific war moved north so did Blamey and his operational staff, with them going first to New Guinea and then to Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea, in May 1944.22 However, the bulk of the communications, intelligence and planning was done in Brisbane and the Army continued to have possession of the site until it vacated the St

16 These figures would also seem to include members of the Royal Signals No.4 Ship Signal Section of the British Army who were posted to General Blamey’s staff and also members of the Australian Women’s Army Volunteers. 17 Clive Moore, above, p.27 and following. 18 Blamey, Sir Thomas Albert (1884 -1951), Australian Dictionary of Biography, 1940 -80,Melbourne University Press, 1993, Vol 13, pp. 196 – 200; online at http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/blamey-sir-thomas-albert-9523. 19 ‘Pomp & Circum’, The University of Queensland Graduate Contact, Summer 1995, p15. 20 ‘Pomp & Circum’, The University of Queensland Graduate Contact, Summer 1995, p15; Michele Helmrich & Peter Spearritt, Artists at Wartime St Lucia [exhibition didactic panel] in Defending the North: Queensland in the Pacific War, University Art Museum, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, 2005; Bevan, Scott, ‘Australian Artists at War: Battle Lines’, Random House, Sydney, 2004, p187. 21 Clive Moore, above, p.23. 22 Clive Moore, above, pp.34-36.


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Lucia premises in December 1944. A commemorative plaque commissioned by General Blamey23 was affixed in the main foyer of the Forgan Smith building.24 Another plaque, located in the corridor on Level 3, before the refurbishment in 2016, commemorated the Royal Australian Corps of Signals that operated in Forgan Smith during the war. 2.2.1 Secret Operations Room and Offices During refurbishments of the Law School in the early 1990s, construction workers found that one of the rooms in the Law wing of the Forgan Smith building (the Main building was re-named the Forgan Smith in 1967) had been soundproofed. The soundproofed room, Room W343 on Level 3, is believed to have been General Blamey’s operations room in which a secret topographical model of the Lae-Salamaua area was kept under constant guard. General Blamey’s own office was down the hall in what became Room W306.25 A plaque in the corridor was later erected which read:

“In recognition of the service given by the men and women of the Royal Australian Corps of Signals at this site during World War Two. –– They passed this way ––”.26

Sergeant M.R. Angus (left) and Lieutenant J.E. Maher work on a model of New Guinea in the Operations Room c.194327

Source: Australian War Memorial Id no: 060694.

23 University of Queensland Memorandum, 24 October 1944. 24 Which reads: “From 1st Aug. 1942 to 31st Dec. 1944 General Sir Thomas Blamey G.B.E., K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., E.D. Commander Allied Land Forces in S.W. Pacific Area and Commander-in-Chief Australian Military Forces occupied these precincts as his Advanced Headquarters. This was the first use to which these buildings were devoted.” 25 Clive Moore, above, p.26. 26 Peter Dunn, ‘Advanced Land Headquarters Allied Land Forces, South West Pacific Area, Queensland University, St. Lucia, Brisbane, Qld’. 27 Exactly which room in the Main building housed this model is unclear, but it was likely on Level 3; Clive Moore, above, p.36. This photo is also reproduced in Clive Moore’s book, p.35.


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However, there is some doubt about exactly where the various rooms were in what is now the law school for their separate roles during the war. The best description seems to be that from Mr Damian Eckersley, BVN Architecture, when researching the point for the 2016 refurbishment.

‘The World War 2 uses of several Level 3 rooms are noted, based on the Forgan Smith - History of a Building and Its People at the University of Queensland by Clive Moore. Moore notes that W343 was used as the Commander-in-Chief's meeting room and has "expensive panelling" (p26). The room was in fact designated on the original floor plan as a "broadcasting room", which explains the additional wall linings and the built-up floor, and probably why it was selected to be a meeting room during the war. Similarly, Moore says that a room "A93 (now W306A)" was a "vault with six inches of extra concrete reinforcing on all of the walls". The room he is probably referring to is W306, formerly Room 98A, and designated as a "music room" on the early drawing. Like the broadcasting room, the music room was detailed with additional acoustic wall and ceiling linings (not concrete), built-up floors, baffled windows, and indirect access to the central corridor. Room W340, now used by the head of the law school, was General Blamey's office but had originally been designated for use by the University as a lecture room.’28

In summary about this aspect of the rooms during the war, it seems clear that the Battle Room was in the basement and that the main offices of the senior staff were on what was the Law School level 3, along the corridor to the west of the Tower space.29 However, the whole of the Main building was put to use for the war effort and there were communication, meeting, briefing and other rooms all adapted to special purposes from 1942 to the end of 1944. The rest of this story about the Law School after the war and its move to the St Lucia Campus is set out under in this chapter but it is appropriate first to devote some space to summaries of the lives and careers of the five UQ lawyers killed in World War II. This is only a summary and a separate and more complete book is being researched and written by the author and will be published by the Law School in 2017. 2.2.2 UQ Lawyers Lost During WWII there were five UQ lawyers who were lost. Also there were six BA graduates who had done the law elements in their BA who were lost (see the forthcoming book). For present purposes it seems appropriate to include sufficient about the lives of each of the five lawyers who were killed during the war. 2.2.2.1 Alexander Charles McNab (27 July 1918 - 2 May 1943) Alexander Charles McNab (known by friends and family as Lex) grew up in Brisbane and attended the Brisbane Boys' College. He entered the University of Queensland's

28 Damien Eckersley, BVN Architecture, email to author or 26.9.16. 29 Clive Moore, above, p.26.


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Faculty of Arts in 1936, taking Arts and Law subjects offered by the Faculty at that time, including Latin, English and Philosophy. During his school and University years he was

well known as an outstanding sportsman in cricket and tennis. Lex McNab was awarded his Degree of Bachelor of Arts in April 1939. In the same year he was awarded a Freemason Scholarship for his studies and went on to complete his Law degree at the end of 1940. He had previously volunteered for the 2/14th Queensland Mounted Infantry (Militia) and in March 1941 he was accepted into the Royal Australian Air Force. With the degrees of BA and LLB, he had qualified for admission to the Queensland Bar, but his departure for war service prevented his actually being admitted. He entered the Empire Training Scheme for pilots for which many

Australian aircrew volunteered. After training in Tamworth, NSW and Ontario, Canada he proceeded to England where he served for more than a year, flying Hurricanes with the RAF. With the Japanese advance on Australia, Lex McNab and other Australian service personnel were recalled and he was posted to Darwin in 1942. As a Flying Officer he flew Spitfires with 452 Squadron from Northern Territory bush airstrips. In May 1943, during operations against a Japanese air attack on Darwin he was lost over the Arafura Sea when his plane went down. The Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery at Daly Waters, Northern Territory, bears a War Memorial Cross listing those who died in war service for whom there are no graves, including Flying Officer A. C. McNab. Lex McNab died at the age of twenty-four. Lex had married Margaret Enid Macdonald, daughter of an MP, at St John's Cathedral, Brisbane in August 1940, shortly before he left for England. Their only child, a son (Ross), was barely one when his father died. Flying Officer McNab was to have been the third lawyer in succession in an established legal family. To this end prior to the war he had been an Associate to Sir Roslyn Philp, the Senior Puisne Judge of Queensland ( the most senior judge in the State after the Chief Justice). McNab’s great grandfather had started the law firm Chambers McNab & McNab, later Chambers McNab Tully & Wilson, and his grandfather and father had been members of


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the firm. Although Lex McNab did not survive the war to join the firm, his son Ross did and was a partner for almost two decades before retiring from the firm to be an academic in the T.C. Beirne School of Law. The firm was later merged to become Corrs Chambers Westgarth, which was established on 2 April 1991 following the merger of Corrs Australian Solicitors, Westgarth Middletons (Sydney) and Chambers McNab Tully and Wilson. The family association with the University of Queensland has continued on in the McNab family. Lex McNab's granddaughter, Catharine McNab, graduated in Arts and then in Law with Honours from the University of Queensland in 1999. His first grandson, Alexander McNab, graduated from UQ in Economics with First Class Honours and a University medal and graduated in Law with Honours. His third grandchild, Malcolm McNab, studied Architecture at UQ and later changed to Arts and Commerce, graduating in 2002. The late Frank Glynn Connolly, barrister and friend, wrote in Lex McNab's obituary, in the first edition of the Queensland University Law Journal (1951), that:

"The Law was his ambition. He had a strong personality, and his rare sense of humour made many friends. To them such a brief career, with ending so different from its pre-war promise, may well serve as an epitome of that time. Lex, no doubt, would have been the first to smile with Horace saying: Vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat incohare longam. (One translation is: The total of our days is small and forbids us to commence hope for a distant future.)"30

2.2.2.2 Chester James Parker (29 July 1916 – 11 August 1942) Chester James Parker entered the University of Queensland's Faculty of Arts as an Open Scholarship holder (he came fourth in the State) in 1935, after having attended Townsville Grammar School. From the outset he had decided upon a legal career, and enrolled in Arts-Law at UQ. He chose to do Honours in English Language and Literature as it was considered good preliminary training for life at the Bar. Chester Parker took up residence at St John's College, then at Kangaroo Point. He wrote in a scholarship application that his initial experience of college and University life quickly led him to conclude, "that preparation for specialised examinations was not the sum total of what the University offered to its students". He further wrote that, as he had chosen Law as a profession, he "was therefore eager to take

30 The bulk of the material on Lex McNab was research by Megan Lyneham, University of Queensland Archives, working from the UQ Archives and material from the McNab family. More detailed attribution of the research and resources will be set out when the book on UQ lawyers killed in WWII is published.


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advantage of the many opportunities for self-expression which the various University Clubs and Societies provided". He went on to become an active member of the debating and dramatic societies and served on both committees. He was also Secretary of the Student Union in 1936 and its President in 1937. A keen sportsman during his three years at St John’s College, Chester Parker was active in inter-college sport, representing St John's in football, cricket and tennis, and gaining a College Blue. He represented the University in rugby and captained the B grade team in 1936, which won the inter-varsity carnival that year. Parker graduated with his Bachelor of Arts with Second Class Honours on 29 April 1938 and the same year he headed for Oxford University, having won the Rhodes Scholarship for Queensland in 1937. He knew where he wanted his career path to go and had written in his Scholarship application that he intended to "read at Oxford for a Bachelor of Arts degree in the Honours School of Jurisprudence, proceed to the degree of Bachelor of Civil Law at the end of the third year, be admitted to the English bar, and return to practise in Queensland." His Rhodes Scholarship application reveals how highly Parker was generally regarded. The Headmaster of Townsville Grammar School wrote in his testimonial that:

"In a long experience, I have never known a more resolute worker. If genius is the art of taking pains, he has it. … He showed courage both physical and moral; a fine type of young manhood; quiet, strong, sincere. … His unassuming manner, his tact, his sterling good sense, his loyalty, his very real ability, together with his altogether unusual capacity for hard work, and the healthy body which accompanies his healthy mind, should go far…"

In November1939 he volunteered from Oxford for active service in the British Navy. In 1940 he was commissioned in the R.N.V.R. as Sub-Lieutenant and posted to the Armed Merchant Cruiser Dunvegan Castle. In August that year she was torpedoed in the North Atlantic and many of the crew lost their lives but Chester survived the ordeal in icy waters and was among those rescued. Then he was posted Navigator in the Corvette H.M.S. Pheony and in November 1940 arrived at Alexandria. Geoffrey Williams, another officer on board, laer wrote a small book, One Eye on the Clock, describing service in this ship. Chester, the only Australian, became the Digger of the piece. Ever adventurous, he volunteered for submarines and after training he was posted in 1942 to H.M. Submarine Thorn, a large submarine, with a crew of 50. Thorn was in the midst of the fighting in the Mediterranean and left Haifa on special patrol duty in late July and was lost with all hands off North Africa in a battle with an Italian destroyer. Parker’s university colleague Frank Glynn Connolly wrote of him in the first Queensland Law Journal (1951):

In a short while he was … distinguished, as an all-rounder with a magnetic smile. Indeed it is his personal charm one recalls most easily. He was a favourite, with


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popularity wider than is usual. He became President of the Union, and most University people before the war knew him well."31

2.2.2.3 George Douglas Rutherford Avery (24 July 1918-22 October 1942) George Douglas Rutherford Avery was born 24 July 1918, the second son of a pastoral family of Mt Ryde, Longreach. Avery grew up in Western Queensland and after completing primary school at Longreach attended high school in Rockhampton. As a high school student Avery impressed the principal, Robertson, as "a lad of definite ambition and of remarkable independence of thought and ideas". Before the age of 14 he presented to the principal "a suggested outline of his future life". One of the schemes related to a career in journalism - the other to service in the Australian Air Force. In March 1935 Avery moved to Brisbane and enrolled as an undergraduate in Arts-Law at the University of Queensland. He took up residence in Emmanuel College, having been granted a bursary by the College Council.32 Throughout Avery's education he was a very keen sportsman. In his junior and senior school years he especially excelled in athletics having captained his School athletics team and won inter-school competitions. At the University of Queensland his sporting career continued and he represented Emmanuel College in athletics, hockey and rugby and represented the University at inter-varsity athletics and hockey carnivals. For his high achievements in athletics, Avery was awarded his University "Half Blue" in 1937. From the outset, George Avery demonstrated an interest in and commitment to community, political and social life. He became a regular member of the International Relations Club and was elected Secretary/Treasurer of the club in 1936 and later President. He was elected Secretary of the Men's Club in 1937 and in 1938 President. Avery was also involved in the University Debating Society.

31 The bulk of the material on Chester Parker was research by Megan Lyneham, University of Queensland Archives, working from the UQ Archives and material from the Parker family. 32 Emmanuel College was established by the Presbyterian Church of Queensland in 1911 with its first students taking up residence in Wickham Terrace in 1912 and it moved to its current location at UQ St Lucia campus site in 1956. In the 1970s, with amalgamation of churches, it came under the Uniting Church. It was all male until 1975 when women were first admitted and in mid-2016 it numbers 340 students of whom about half are female; Emmanuel College records.


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An academic scholarship application provides a glimpse of another aspect of his character and personality and his active social life. He wrote, with the customary restraint and formality of the time, "I am fond of dancing and attended as many University dances as I considered possible without prejudicing my work." Perhaps it was at one of these dances that a campus romance between Avery and Kathleen Madgwick began. Kathleen was a student in the Faculty of Science at the time. They later married and had a daughter. Kathleen completed her Bachelor of Science in April 1943 after Avery’s death. Henry Alcock, University of Queensland Professor of History and Economics 1922-1948,33 described Avery as having "a good deal of drive, combined with an insouciance that often makes it rather charming". In 1938 Avery received a Freemasons Scholarship and also graduated with his Degree of Bachelor of Arts and, by the end of that year, he had completed one section of the Law subjects. In 1939 he carried on his studies externally, having started teaching primary school classes at The Scots College, Warwick. He had already served with the Army militia in Warwick part time and on 24 May 1940 he transferred to the RAAF. After basic training Avery embarked for the Middle East and saw active service in Libya, Greece and Malta. In February 1942 he was sent to South Africa and then home to Australia to join 100 Squadron which was the first RAAF squadron to be equipped with Australian built Beaufort Torpedo Bombers. During 1942, mixed in with training for different aircraft and different types of warfare, Avery flew sorties off the Australian coast and in New Guinea. On 22 October 1942 Flying Officer Avery was amongst those six aaircraft from 100 squadron carrying out mock torpedo attacks on a hulk lying close to the shore off Magnetic island, near Townsville. His aircraft appeared to strike the top of its mast and his aircraft crashed killing him and he was buried in the service portion of the Townsville cemetery. He was 24 years old and was survived by his wife and young daughter Janie. In an obituary published in the first Queensland University Law Journal (1951) a friend of George Avery wrote:

"Mr Avery, during his College, University and Service life, showed great energy and singleness of purpose, he put his whole effort into whatever he undertook and spared nothing in his aim to give his best."34

33 For details about Professor Alcock see Helen Gregory, Vivant Professores: distinguished members of the University of Queensland, 1910-1940, UQ Library, 1987, pp.1-5. 34 The bulk of the material on George Avery was from research by Megan Lyneham, University of Queensland Archives, taken from the UQ Archives and material from the family.


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2.2.2.4 Charles Stumm (29 August 1913 – 13 May 1944) Charles Stumm was born in Gympie on 29 August 1913, only son to the Stumm family, of the property "Penlan Downs" in the Longreach area. After completing his schooling at The Southport School, Stumm enrolled at the University of Queensland in 1932 to study Arts-Law. Stumm took up residence at St John’s College at Kangaroo Point and quickly became involved in University life. He represented the College in rowing, cricket and athletics, the University in rowing and rugby union and was a member of the Combined Australian Universities' Rugby Football Team which toured Japan in 1934. He was also an active member of the dramatic and debating societies. Stumm met his future wife, Lorraine Streeter, also a student of the University of Queensland, at a rugby match at the Brisbane Exhibition ground. She wrote in her autobiography entitled I saw too much: a woman correspondent at war that he impressed her as "a tall, handsome man, with dark curly hair, a cheery smile and a big voice".

In Stumm's application for the 1935 Rhodes Scholarship the headmaster of The Southport School wrote: "Generally I consider him to be a splendid type of young Queenslander - sincere, manly and honourable, who would not only hold his own at Oxford but would strongly commend Australian manhood at that university." He completed his final examinations in November and while studying to be admitted to the Queensland Bar he read in the Chambers of barrister Mr B.F. Fahey. Stumm was admitted as a barrister on 3 May

1935. Having won the Rhodes Scholarship, he set sail for England in August 1935. They had arranged that after Lorraine graduated with her Degree of Bachelor of Arts and a Diploma of Journalism, she too would set sail to England to join him. In November 1936 she subsequently sailed in the Orion and in London earned her living and made a career for herself as a journalist. At Oxford Stumm entered Balliol College, studied Law and read at Lincoln's Inn in London. He was awarded his Bachelor of Arts with third class honours in Jurisprudence in 1937 and his Bachelor of Civil Law in 1938, and was admitted to the English Bar. In


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the "Report for Year 1936/7 on Rhodes Scholars from Queensland" the Warden of Rhodes House wrote that Stumm was:

"Of sterling quality and character, who has a high sense of responsibility, and whose industry has been untiring. He radiates honesty and good nature, and is esteemed by everybody."

During his time at Oxford Stumm joined the Oxford University Air Squadron and took flying lessons, gaining his Certificate of Competency in June 1936.

They subsequently returned to Brisbane and Lorraine and Stumm married on 1 July 1939 at St Mary's Church, Kangaroo Point and lived in a little flat at Kangaroo Point. Only six weeks later Stumm received a cable stating he was to report immediately to RAF Headquarters in Singapore and he left on his 26th birthday. His wife later joined him in Singapore where again she supported herself as a journalist and she wrote that at that time, "No one dreamed that Singapore was in danger". He was naturally literate and in his spare time Stumm wrote and his manuscript After Victory was printed while he was in Singapore. In this he argued that only a world union, starting with a union in Europe, would prevent world wars from occurring. At the time his ideas were considered idealistic and wishful, although the advent of the European Union has given

some weight to his vision. He also published A Rifle and Kay, an adventure/love story whose two main characters were based on himself and Lorraine. On 22 June 1941 their daughter Sheridan was born. On 8 December 1941 the first Japanese planes raided Singapore. In January 1942 Lorraine and baby Sheridan were evacuated to Australia, just before the fall of Singapore on 14 February 1942. Stumm flew on 70 raids against the Japanese and his squadron moved from its Singapore base to Sumatra and when Sumatra was about to fall the squadron moved again and Stumm flew an old Hurricane to their new base but the aircraft lost power over Central Java and landed heavily in a paddy field. He fractured every bone in his face and was knocked unconscious, but was revived by some Javanese who rescued him from the wreck and took him by ox cart to the nearest police station. From there he was transported to an Australian hospital ship evacuating the wounded to India and Ceylon (Sri Lanka). After he recovered in a hospital in Colombo he was posted to the RAF 11 Squadron of Blenheim Bombers and in November 1942 became its new Commanding Officer, promoted to Acting Wing Commander. The Squadron carried out many operations against the enemy over Burma, and in July 1943 as a result of these operations, Stumm was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC).


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Lorraine was determined to join her husband and she and their daughter survived the many war time hazards of the sea voyage and arrived in Colombo Harbour in 1944. Stumm had not seen his daughter, now three, since she was six months old. Against all the rules Stumm flew down from India and the family flew back to Delhi together in his squadron Mosquito bomber. On arrival at the military airport, Lorraine Stumm wrote, "A young RAF airman ran across to the bomber and said, "Who are these civilians, what are they doing in a military aircraft?" Stumm, now a Wing Commander in charge of 45 Squadron, said: "This (pointing at his wife) is a war correspondent (which was true) and this (pointing at Sherry) is her typewriter. That is an order." "Yes sir," said the airman…He got away with it, heavens knows how…" About six weeks after their arrival in India, on 13 May 1944 two Mosquitos, one of which was flown by Stumm, were engaged in a fighter operational training exercise with some B25 aircraft. Witnesses said the Mosquitos turned together after passing through the B25s but when executing a half loop Stumm's "machine seemed to just break up" in a major mechanical failure. His plane became uncontrollable and crashed and he and his co-pilot died in the accident.35 Lorraine was devastated and she and Sheridan returned home to Brisbane and later continued with her career and eventually remarried. 2.2.2.5 Harrold Graham Pace (31 October 1916 – 13 May 1942) Harrold Graham Pace (Graham) was born in Brisbane on 31 October 1916. His father, Arthur H. Pace, was a solicitor, and his mother, Jeanie Christine Butler, daughter of William Butler of Kilcoy Station, Kilcoy. Pace attended Windsor State School, obtaining a state scholarship to attend Toowoomba Grammar School as a boarder for his secondary schooling. He won an open scholarship to the University of Queensland in the Senior Examinations. During his early schooling he took part in several sporting activities and was an NCO in the Toowoomba Grammar School Cadet Corps. Choosing to follow his father into law, Graham Pace entered the University in 1934 in the BA degree and chose law subjects where they were available. He was a sound scholar and in the 15 subjects which made up the three final years of his course he received merits in 11 and passes in three and this in a period when only outstanding efforts were rewarded with grades above a pass. He was awarded a Masonic Scholarship in 1937 and in that year he graduated with his Degree of Bachelor of Arts.

35 The bulk of the material on Stumm was research by Megan Lyneham, University of Queensland Archives, taken from the UQ Archives and material from the family.


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Pace continued on at UQ with his Bachelor of Laws in 1939 and in 1940 he sat for the

Honours examination in Law and was awarded Honours (2nd class). On 23rd April 1940 he was called to the Bar. At UQ he played a full part in undergraduate affairs - in social life, through the activities of the Union and the Law Students' Society, and in the Debating Society, where he was a lucid and forceful debater. He was also a keen tennis player, sailed with the sixteen-foot skiffs and was fond of golf. Pace's mother inherited from her father a property near Kilcoy where he spent nearly all his holidays, enjoying riding, camping and shooting. It was during his University years that he met his future wife, Ida Frances Keenan, also a graduate of the University of Queensland (BA 1938). Pace enlisted in the RAAF in February 1940. After he and Ida were married in St Andrew's Church of

England, South Brisbane they travelled to Perth where she stayed while he trained at Pearce Air Force base. After his training, Graham served as a pilot in Australia until 1941 and then with his Squadron in active operations in North Africa during a critical time in that conflict. On 13 May 1942, in his twenty-sixth year, Flying Officer Pace was shot down in action at Derma, Libya and his memorial is at the El Alamein War Cemetery, Marsa Matruh in Egypt. His wife and daughter, born a month before his death, survived him. Graham's sister, daughter and grandchildren all went on to study at UQ. His sister Ella Loranthe Greenup graduated with a Bachelor of Science in 1942 and his daughter, Judith Pace (later Nave), was awarded her MBBS in 1966. His granddaughter, Helen Tuttle, was awarded her BE Hons in 1992 and her ME in 2000, and his grandson Mark Nave was awarded his BE Hons in 1995 and PhD in 2004.

“With his early record of all-round attainment, his clear and able mind, his strength of character and personality, the Bar and the community lost in Graham Pace a man of great talent.”36

2.3 New Law School Home at St Lucia 1948-1949 Returning now to the history of the Law Faculty and the move from George Street to the St Lucia Campus, the vacation of St. Lucia by the Army occurred towards the end of 1944.37 Many in the Law Faculty believed that the long-promised move to St Lucia after the war would be fairly immediate but shortages in manpower and construction materials meant that work to complete the St. Lucia campus was very slow. Adequate funding was

36 The bulk of the material on Graham Pace was from research by Megan Lyneham, University of Queensland Archives, taken from the UQ Archives and material provided by the family. 37 Clive Moore, above, p.40.


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a main issue as was a shortage of building materials throughout Australia as it was widely needed for construction of so much after the war ended. One of the other issues was that Professor Hedges did not return after the war but resigned his position in 1945. Fortunately, one of the barristers was willing to fill the role and Acting Honorary Professor A.D. McGill, a practising barrister, held the Garrick Chair from 1945 to 1948. Many of the difficulties of the move of the Law School to St Lucia, therefore, fell on his shoulders. By the end of 1945 general sentiment among the University population was reflected in a Semper cartoon depicting students in the old George Street precinct exclaiming: “Good Lord! Didn’t you know? Moving to St. Lucia is a university legend – one of those Dream Homes you hear so much about!”

Aerial view of St Lucia site with the Main Building and some early construction July 1946

Source: University of Queensland Archives: UQA S178 B55 Early in 1945 work resumed on the St Lucia buildings on a small scale beginning with repairs from the Army occupation. Blackout curtains had to be removed as did fittings on walls to hold maps and charts and much of the parquetry floor needed repair to prepare the buildings for academic uses. In all Landops used 229 rooms in the Main and Chemistry buildings and in the Main building alone some 185 rooms needed repair


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and/or modification.38 As well much of the work had to be completed just to get the buildings around the Great Court finally completed. The Engineering Faculty was the first to move to St. Lucia which occurred in 1946, with various other Faculties following over the next few years. The Department of Physical Education was the first into the Main building in 1948 and in December 1948 many departments started to move during the Christmas break and in early 1949. Classics, Economics, History, English, Modern Languages, Music, Philosophy and Law all moved into the main building so that teaching could commence at St Lucia from the beginning of the 1949 academic year.39 The University Administration moved into the tower in the Main building in 1952.40 A decade after construction first began on the St. Lucia campus, Premier E.D. Hanlon officially opened the Main building on 5 May 194941 and the Law and other Faculties gradually settled into their new home.42 Despite the official move, the centre of gravity of the University remained in the George Street precincts for several more years and pressure of numbers within the Law Faculty meant that several classes were maintained at other sites, including company and bankruptcy law being conducted in the Bank of New South Wales building in the city. In 1949 Professor Walter Harrison, as to whom see Chapter 3, was appointed as the fourth Garrick Professor of Law and Dean, marking the beginning of a period of considerable growth for the Law Faculty in the post-war period. Enrolments had swelled with the return of men and women released from military service.43 The number of teaching staff also increased with the greater availability of specialist part-time lecturers in areas such as probate, divorce and admiralty law, pleading and practice and company law. These part-time lecturers were volunteers from the profession and they would become increasingly important in subsequent years, not only for the practical legal knowledge they imparted, but in performing the teaching duties during the transition to more full-time academic staff.44 The expansion of the whole University with the return of servicemen to take up tertiary studies was significant. In 1939 there were a total of 1,163 students, of which 28 were in the Law Faculty, and in 1945 there was a total of 2,207, of which 63 were in the Law Faculty, and of which total about 1,000 were in first year. As they were released the numbers kept growing so that by 1949 the total was 4,400 enrolled thereby doubling the number of students in just five years.45 Many of the students were funded under the

38 Clive Moore, above, p.40. 39 John W East No Mean Plans, p.66; Clive Moore, above, p.43. 40 Clive Moore, above, p.43. 41 John W East No Mean Plans, p.66. The Main building was re-named as the Forgan Smith in 1967. 42 Thomis, Malcolm, ‘A Place of Light and Learning: The University of Queensland’s First Seventy-Five Years’, University of Queensland Press, Brisbane, 1985, p211. 43 The University of Queensland Book of Statistics, 1959, p63. 44 The legal profession who taught into the law subjects included such brilliant lawyers who later became leading Silks and then eminent judges, Sir Harry Gibbs, Sir Walter Campbell and Justice Peter Connolly. 45 Clive Moore, above, pp.40, 41.


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Commonwealth Reconstruction Training Scheme and the former relationship between staff and students of master-pupil style was replaced by one where the returned servicemen and women were not so compliant.46 Also of note during this period was the generous donation of ₤700 for the establishment of ‘The John Macrossan Memorial Library’ in 1949. Vincent Macrossan, on behalf of his late mother Mrs John Murtagh Macrossan and his brothers Hugh and Neal, provided the funds in memory of John Murtagh Macrossan47 and his son John Macrossan. Before the refurbishment in 2016 the Macrossan book cabinet was displayed in the Law Library entrance foyer. The end of the war and the move to St.Lucia marked the rise of the Faculty in placing itself in a central position to educate the legal leadership of Queensland and, though naturally to a lesser extent, the Australian nation. One example of this leadership and the vigour of those returning from the war was that in 1951 the Faculty published the University of Queensland Law Journal, the equal first university law journal to be published in Australia (along with the University of Western Australia).48 The very first issue commemorated those five lawyers from the Law Faculty who had been killed on service during World War II (McNab, Parker, Avery, Stumm and Pace; as set out above).

46 Clive Moore, above, p.41. 47 The contribution of the Macrossan Family to the Australian community is too large to set out here, but John Murtagh Macrossan’s life, and sudden and unexpected death during the 1891 Constitutional Conference in Sydney, is set out in the Australian Dictionary of Biography Vol 5. 1974, online at http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/macrossan-john-murtagh-4138. 48 I am indebted to Mr William Holbrook for research on the early Australian Law Schools’ Journals; email to author of 19.8.16.


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Chapter 3

Restructuring,Relegation and Revolt: 1950-1979

3.1 Changing Curriculum 3.2 Inter-Administrative Difficulties and the Martin Report 3.3 Accommodation Inadequacies and the Law Library 3.4 Civil Disobedience and Student Riots 3.5 Noteworthy Figures 3.5.1 Professor Walter Norwood Leslie Harrison (1904-1966) 3.5.2 Sir Harry Talbot Gibbs GCMG AC KBE (1917-2005) 3.5.3 Sir Walter Benjamin Campbell AC (1921-2004) 3.1 Changing Curriculum The post-war years were vital not only to the development of the Law Faculty’s burgeoning reputation, but also to the advancement of legal education within the State of Queensland. With the reconstruction effort well under way and the disappearance of special post-war conditions, the Faculty began considering the complete revision of the course for the LLB degree with a view to eliminating gaps and overlapping courses in the curriculum and improving methods of teaching. In a series of meetings beginning in October 1950, the Faculty undertook a general revision of the system of law studies that had been in place since the School was established in 1936. With over a decade of experience, it was felt by many within the Faculty, especially the then Head of Department, Professor Walter N.L. Harrison, that the time was right for an overhaul although there was some trepidation about the introduction of a new curriculum with special ex-service students still completing their studies.This was because, of the 4,245 students enrolled at the University of Queensland in 1950, ex-service personnel studying under the Commonwealth Reconstruction Training Scheme accounted for 1,084 students. The new structure was implemented to coincide with first year students commencing studies in 1952. In a report tabled at the Faculty of Law Board meeting in March 1951, and eventually approved by the University Senate in early 1952, the changes to the existing degree structure were outlined. A five-year Bachelor of Laws degree was to replace the former five-year combined Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws degree, thereby severing the close links with the Faculty of Arts that had characterised the School’s early development. The changes allowed for a more systematic coverage of subjects which was similar to the structure implemented by the University of Sydney Law School and entailed a significant increase in the number of lectures and seminars. Similarly, the final two years of the course were designed as evening courses in order to encourage students to supplement their studies with practical legal experience and to enable those students who were working to get to lectures.


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Combined with the five-year degree structure, it was considered prudent also to offer a six-year combined Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Arts degree course. Despite initial expectations that most students would opt for the shorter five-year course, in 1952 almost half of the new full-time students elected the six-year degree and in 1953 nearly all of them did so.1 This was despite the fact that Commonwealth Scholarships could only be offered for a maximum of five years study. During this period, Commonwealth Scholarships were quite common and they offered students the opportunity to study their respective courses free of financial liability. Ordinarily a BA/LLB student could only obtain benefits for five years (the period then necessary for professional qualification), although by 1953 provision was made for the introduction of four special six-year scholarships to be awarded on the basis of first year results. The restructuring of the law curriculum revealed the need for further full-time academic staff and provided the catalyst for fundamental changes to the composition of the Faculty. Accordingly, Mr. Kevin W. Ryan was appointed as a full-time lecturer in 1953 in order to meet the new teaching demands that had arisen.2The recommendation made in 1948 by the Australian Universities Law Schools Association was that all law schools should consist of at least three-full time staff.The three full-time members of staff in 1952 were Professor Walter N.L. Harrison, Edmund I Sykes, and Harry Ross Anderson.3 By the middle of 1969 there were 20 full-time members of staff4 and 38 by the end of 1979.5The forces at work during this period meant gravitation towards a fully established and permanent academic staff to replace the part-time professional lecturers who had provided so much to the founding years of the Law School.

1University of Queensland Faculty of Law Annual Report,1953, p.1. 2University of Queensland Faculty of Law Annual Report,1953, p.1 The achievements of the Honourable Kevin W Ryan CBE RFD, academic, barrister and judge are too numerous to set out here. They may be found on the Queensland Supreme Court web site at http://www.sclqld.org.au/judicial-papers/judicial-profiles/profiles/kwryan. 3Hyman Tarlo, ‘Law School in the Sixties: A Fragmented Memoir’ (1985) 14(1) The University of Queensland Law Journal, pp. 14-25, 15. 4The University of Queensland Statistics, 1969, Table. 41, p.166. 5The University of Queensland Statistics, 1979, Table. 61, p.86.


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Barrister K.W. Ryan c.1950 Source: University of Queensland Archives: UQA S177 P409

During the 1950s and 1960s, the part-time professional lecturers continued to have a significant impact upon the development of the Faculty. Many of Queensland’s and Australia’s best legal minds, including H.T. Gibbs, W.B. Campbell, P.D. Connolly, R. F. Carter, F. T. Cross and C.E.K. Hampson offered their expertise and services as part-time lecturers throughout this period. These distinguished figures, under the guidance of the Dean, Professor Walter Harrison, imparted enormous wisdom, passion and legal insight, helping to foster an unprecedented quality of legal education in the State. It was this small but well qualified cadre of part-time lecturers, supported by the capable and experienced staff, such as Drs. Fry, Sykes and Ryan that forged a reputation of legal excellence that was recognised across the nation. To this end, in August 1955 the annual conference of the Australian Universities Law Schools Association was held for the first time at the University of Queensland.6 The composition of the Faculty of Law Board also changed quite substantially. In 1954, the then Mr Harry Gibbs and Mr Walter Campbell were appointed to the Faculty as the first graduates of the University to rise to the position.7 On the suggestion of Mr. Justice Philp, it was considered that the inclusion of recent graduates would be advantageous in meeting the needs of the student body and such new additions to the Board could also provide an effective bridge between the Faculty and legal profession. The Faculty considered that appointments on such grounds should be made on the understanding that the persons appointed would, after some years, be replaced by more recent graduates.8

6 University of Queensland Faculty of Law Annual Report, 1955, p.1. 7Faculty of Law Minutes, 3 December 1953. 8Third Report of the Faculty of Law, 1953, p.5.


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3.2 Inter-Administrative Difficulties and the Martin Report Between the late 1950s and early 1960s very little changed in the Faculty aside from the introduction of the first elective subjects of Taxation Law and Industrial Law in 1957. The subjects were optional electives in the sense that students could choose between one or the other, although the selection of one of them was a necessary part of the law curriculum. It was originally intended that there would be an equal number of students in both subjects, but there was an overwhelming preference amongst students for Taxation Law, with the number of students selecting Industrial law too small to warrant teaching the course immediately.9 By 1961 the number of enrolments had risen to 199, increasing again to 267 the following year.10 At a meeting at the end of 1961, it was predicted that student numbers were likely to rise by 80% over the next four years and that it was doubted whether the School possessed the accommodation and teaching strength to meet such an unprecedented expansion.11Such concerns proved the precursor to the fight for better accommodation and improved library facilities that were to plague the development of the Law Faculty into the 1980s. Despite the determination of the small but highly qualified staff of the Law School, requests for better working conditions,12 reasonable teaching loads, adequate facilities, finance for research and additional library resources were all rejected by the university administration. In other States, law teachers were evolving into a respected branch of the legal profession and law schools were undergoing dynamic changes. In Queensland the Law School was regarded by university administration as “just another Arts-type department”13 and was funded and generally treated accordingly. This treatment was attributable to the lack of comprehension by the university administration of the needs of law schools as well the prevailing attitude by some in the profession that one could not truly learn law at a university but only in a legal office. In August 1964, the Australian Universities Commission (AUC)Report of the Martin Committee on the Future of Tertiary Education in Australia(the Martin Report) strongly refuted this restricted view and supported the benefits of higher education which many on the Faculty had been arguing for years, with this then to be followed by practical instruction and experience in the profession.14 The Committee’s detailed examination of

9 University of Queensland Faculty of Law Annual Report, 1957, p.1. 10The University of Queensland Statistics, 1979, Table. 1, p.1. 11Faculty of Law Minutes, 2 November 1961, p.1. 12One of the working questions related to staff teaching late at night. By 1965 the T.C Beirne School of Law was the only law school in the country to offer evening classes for part-time students. Teaching for part-time students was mainly between 6pm and 9pm, although classes often ran considerably later. In 1966 there was intense discussion among the Faculty staff over timetable changes and by 1969 it had pushed for a general 4pm starting time. Under the 1969 timetable, 15 scheduled lectures began at 4pm, 20 began at 5pm and only three began at 6pm. 13Hyman Tarlo, ‘Law School in the Sixties: A Fragmented Memoir’ (1985) 14(1) The University of Queensland Law Journal , p17. 14 A copy of this AUC Report is Item 88 –“AUC Committee on the Future of Tertiary Education in Australia (Martin Committee) Draft Documents for Report and Three Volumes of Report also list of Committee Documents”; online at http://archivescollection.anu.edu.au/index.php/auc-committee-on-future-of-tertiary-education-in-australia-martin-committee-draft-documents-for-report-and-three-volumes-of-report-also-list-of-committee-documents.


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legal education in Australia and its far-sighted and progressive conclusions and recommendations had an important effect on the entire structure and substance of Australian legal education.15 Although the curriculum changes of 1952 had gone a long way in establishing a reputation of academic excellence at the Law School, the recommendations of the Martin Report and the increasing advancements in legal education throughout Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom meant that the newly appointed Dean, Professor E.I Sykes, was faced with, once again, reviewing the content and structure of the Bachelor of Laws degree. Unlike the previous revision, however, the Law School faced an uphill battle with university administration over funding for appropriate staff and facilities and only a very few of the recommendations were carried out during this period.16

Professor E.I. Sykes

Source: University of Queensland Archives: UQA S135/P One of the key changes brought about by the Martin Report related to the University’s approach to the issue of the articled clerks course that was being taught and examined by members of the legal profession, but not to university standard. The Martin Committee had considered submissions that solicitors did not require a university education; the minimum requirements of legal education were satisfied by five years of apprenticeship/clerkship experience supplemented by formal academic instruction on a

15Report of the Martin Committee on the Future of Tertiary education in Australia (1964), Volume II, Chapter 11. 16 Of those recommendations that were carried out (aside from the updating of the syllabuses of individual subjects), the Faculty of Law started to introduce tutorials and seminars to supplement lectures. The Faculty had experimented with the idea in 1958 but discovered that with the smaller sized classes of the period the lectures had effectively taken on a ‘lectorial’ character. However, with the explosion of student numbers experienced in the early 1960s a more formal system of tutorials, seminars and lectures were introduced in 1965.


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part-time basis at levels lower than any Australian university was prepared to accept. The Martin Committee categorically rejected this proposition, asserting that while practical experience remained essential, formal education to a University standard was paramount in maintaining appropriate professional standards. Under the direction of Professor Walter Harrison, the Law School had offered a part-time Articled Clerks’ Course since 1962, catering to those that were training within the articled clerks’ system but still wished to gain some form of University level instruction.17 The course was largely responsible for raising the standard of entry into the solicitors’ profession in Queensland, although a higher standard of academic learning was, of course, achieved with the five-year Bachelor of Laws degree. By 1966 however, the Articled Clerks’ course had been discontinued by the Faculty of Law at the insistence of the University as it was no longer prepared to offer such programs in light of the Commonwealth Government’s refusal to finance sub-degree or non-matriculation courses. The Law Faculty attempted to make concessions within the framework of the University’s policy in this regard and proposed that the course be converted, after much revision and strengthening, into a degree course tentatively called the Bachelor in Law (B.Law) degree. Nobody was particularly enthusiastic about such a proposal because, although the proposal for the degree came from the Faculty, they were perhaps the least enthusiastic about it. The Faculty was supportive of the findings of the Martin Committee but it was concerned that the B.Laws degree would only serve to perpetuate a system of part-time study with evening studies being pursued at the same time as five years’ articles, and could possibly also endanger the popularity of the LLB degree. 18 However, by 1968 changes to the Solicitor’s Admission Rules meant a reduction in the period of articles for those enrolled in a law degree course at the University from three years to two years.19 This was a major concession for which the Faculty had been striving for a number of years. It meant that degree students could attend full-time for the first three years of the five years’ law course and did not need to enter into articles before the fourth year, thereby implementing what had been sought under the Martin Report. 3.3 Accommodation Inadequacies and the Law Library In August 1966, the Third Report of the Australian University Commission referred to the outstanding proposals for the 1967-1969 Triennium relating to law. The Commission supported recommendations for that Triennium for funding for the erection of new law school buildings at Sydney, Melbourne, Monash, Adelaide and the Australian National Universities. These recommendations which were, in due course, accepted by the Federal Government were in response to specific requests for law school buildings from each of those universities. There was no such request from the University of Queensland.

17Hyman Tarlo, ‘Lawyers in the Making’ (1967) 5 University of Queensland Law Journal, p. 233. 18Hyman Tarlo, ‘Law School in the Sixties: A Fragmented Memoir’ (1985) 14(1) The University of Queensland Law Journal, p. 19. 19Proceedings of the Eighth Symposium of the Queensland Law Society Incorporated, 1968, p.1.


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The UQ administration instead proposed to provide space for its Law Faculty within a new Arts Building on the western end of the Forgan Smith building (which was to become the Michie Building). The tentative plans for the Arts Building had indicated a completely inadequate law area which would have sufficed for staff offices and a few tutorial rooms but nothing else.20 By 1967 the idea of including accommodation for law in the new Arts Building was abandoned and it was instead proposed that law would occupy the entire area to the west of the tower in the Forgan Smith Building on completion of the new Arts Building. While such a proposal would finally justify the noble lettering carved in stone over the entrance to the Law School,21 the University was somewhat lethargic in relation to its building program and the Arts (Michie) Building was not completed until the early 1970s.22 While increases in staff and students had made further accommodation necessary, it was the state of the law library that caused the greatest concern. The heart of any respectable law school, the law library, was in a woeful state at UQ in early 1968. Although it had increased its holdings to 18,000 volumes23 the library had reached its limit for space for book holdings despite the move to larger quarters at the western end the Main building in 1966.24With an annual allocation of only approximately $3,300 the library was unable to maintain its existing collection with many of the commonly-used volumes becoming dilapidated from constant over-use. With seating space at an absolute premium, students were forced to arrive before the library opened each morning in an effort to secure a place in the library. It had seating for only 84, despite the fact that 590 students were enrolled in the School. By October 1968 the chorus of protests from students and staff alike appeared to register with the University Senate, which submitted a request to the Australian University Commission for an additional grant for a new law building. However, the earlier tide of approval for new law buildings had passed and the Commission’s Fourth Report in May 1969 brought no relief for the UQ Law School. Incensed that the University’s preoccupation with physical, biological and medical sciences at the expense of other disciplines had resulted in a lost opportunity to improve the Law Faculty, the Faculty members continued to lobby for improvements.

20 Hyman Tarlo, ‘Law School in the Sixties: A Fragmented Memoir’ (1985) 14(1) The University of Queensland Law Journal , pp.22-24. 21 Over the main entrance is the word ‘LAW’ and above that are the names of six of the great jurists; Bacon, Socrates, Blackstone, Aristotle, Hobbes and Coke. 22Construction of the Michie Building itself was somewhat of a saga. Delays in approvals, construction and difficulties with contractors meant that the project took far longer than was expected. In order for the building aesthetically to match the rest of the buildings around the Great Court, it had to be clad in sandstone which was not finally achieved until 1979. For a more detailed account of the construction of the Michie Building refer to Malcolm I. Thomis, A place of Light and Learning: The University of Queensland’s First Seventy-Five Years (1985), pp.263-64, 351-52, 355. 23 This included a complete set of the Laws of Fiji that was donated to the library by the Solicitor-General of Fiji, Mr. D. McLoughlin. 24 Hyman Tarlo, ‘Law School in the Sixties: A Fragmented Memoir’ (1985) 14(1) The University of Queensland Law Journal, p.23.


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In a piecemeal effort to appease the Law Faculty, the university approved the construction of a mezzanine floor to provide temporary relief to the law library in May 1970.25 The years following were marked by a constant struggle between the Faculty and university administration over improvements to the library and solutions to the growing accommodation crisis. It is, however, indicative of the attitude of the University administration at the time that law was not even included in the list of 20 priorities in the University’s submission for the 1973-1975 triennium. By March 1975 the University had finally recognized its responsibility and Deputy Vice Chancellor Ritchie proposed a scheme for the construction of a building complex to house the Law Faculty and law library as well as the Education and Psychology Departments.26 This would have alleviated the immediate accommodation problem but in 1976 the entire university building program was suspended nationally by the Federal Government and never fully restored.27With funding restricted and little capital works occurring, the Faculty of Law was left to endure its conditions. 3.4 Civil Disobedience and Student Riots While the staff and students of the Law Faculty were subjugated to their own departmental woes, the late 1960s and early 1970s also brought out forces that were that resulted in student unrest and civil disobedience. Student unrest and riots began in western European universities in the late 1960s and gradually spread. The reasons varied from country to country and university to university but for UQ they resulted in wide-scale student protests that assumed proportions never previously encountered in Queensland.28 It is considered that the event that marked the beginning of this period of civil disobedience and student rioting was in May 1963 when a UQ student Commemoration Week prank developed into an incipient mass political protest about high fares on public transport. In the largest street demonstration seen in Brisbane for many years, over 3,000 students boycotted trams and buses, marching on the Queensland Department of Transport. This event, and many like it during the period, often provoked negative responses in the media with students often referred to as “louts” and “thugs” but the media later exposed deliberate police over use of harshness with incidents of outright brutality by some police officers.

25University News, May 1970, p.10. 26Malcolm I. Thomis, A Place of Light and Learning: The University of Queensland’s First Seventy-Five Years (1985), p.351. 27 University of Queensland Senate Annual Report, 1976, p.1. 28Malcolm I. Thomis, A Place of Light and Learning: The University of Queensland’s First Seventy-Five Years (1985), pp.313-334.


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Student Protest – 5 September 1967

Source: University of Queensland Archives: UQA S909. While the period is characterised by civil disobedience29 with students challenging ‘the establishment’ and the demand for better facilities, three principal issues dominated the University during the late 1960s and early 1970s;

a. the student movement for greater participation in university government; b. opposition to continuing Australian participation in the war in Vietnam; and c. the South African Springbok rugby tour of Australia in light of the continuing

apartheid in South Africa. As part of this trend on Thursday 12 June 1969 a group of 25 students occupied the Senate room in the J.D Story Building in protest against the University’s administrative power structure.30 Marking the start of increasingly militant and confrontational tactics, the students demanded greater representation in the Senate of both student and staff members. While no arrests were made, and changes to the Senate did not occur for a

29For a detailed history of the student protests in Brisbane at the time refer to Carole Ferrier and Ken Mansell, ‘Student Revolt, 1960s and 1970s’ in Raymond Evans and Carole Ferrier (eds.), Radical Brisbane: An Unruly History (2004), pp.266-272. 30Carole Ferrier and Ken Mansell, ‘Student Revolt, 1960s and 1970s’, above, p.271.


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number of years, several students were allowed to address the Senate meeting that evening to voice their concerns. This action marked the high-water mark of student protests about representative university governance and the issue thenshaded into that of Australia’s increased involvement in the Vietnam War. In September 1970, a destructive attack was made on the University of Queensland Regiment headquarters which was followed by violent clashes between students and police when the First Secretary of the South Vietnamese Embassy in Canberra visited the University. The press condemned what was described as the University’s ‘day of shame’ and deplored the failure to uphold the traditions of free speech and academic freedom that the University was supposed to embody.31Justice Walter Campbell, then a member of the Supreme Court of Queensland, on the University Senate and a board-member of the Faculty of Law, was requested to conduct an inquiry into the events.32 What resulted was the most rigorous disciplinary proceedings in the University’s history and students protested against the hearings, suspensions and court convictions of some student leaders.

Student Moratorium in Great Court 8 May 1970 Source: University of Queensland Archives: UQA S909

One event seemed to follow the other and in July 1971 anti-apartheid sentiment had reached fever-pitch with the proposed Springbok rugby tour of Australia because of the continuing apartheid regime in South Africa which had resulted in international boycotts

31The Courier Mail, 5 September 1970. 32Malcolm I. Thomis, A Place of Light and Learning: The University of Queensland’s First Seventy-Five Years (1985), p.321.


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of its government.33 Opposition to the tour reached such levels that the Bjelke-Petersen State Government34 declared a ‘State of Emergency’ to give itself extraordinary powers in an effort to dissuade protestors from marching on the day of the rugby test match in Brisbane. Subsequent events impacted heavily upon the University with numerous staff striking in protest and many students boycotting lectures. These events were exacerbated by the heavy-handed tactics of the police. During the 1971 confrontations between police and protesters some of the law students formed into observer groups to attend the main events. Dressed in borrowed white laboratory coats, they took notes and photographs of events in a public way in an endeavour to exert a moderating influence and record accurately any police or student misbehaviour.Finally, with the departure of the Springboks from Australia the university life returned to some semblance of normality. For law students the unrest of the period was to continue to some extent as the situation of the law library failed to improve and library staff themselves constantly bemoaned their position and criticised the lack of action on behalf of the university administration. The Library Annual Reports from 1975 to 1979 contained scathing attacks on the University administration for its failure to rectify the chronic shortages and inadequacies within the Law School and the Law Library in particular. In one report, it is stated that a visitor to the law library remarked that the University of Queensland facilities “reminded him of libraries he had seen in underdeveloped countries.”35 Students themselves brought matters to a head in 1978 with a small-scale protest over Law School conditions. While little came of the protest in the intervening years, it was to be the watershed that would spark the events that would later force the university administration to improve the situation. These events mark the end of the 1970s except to note three cameos of important figures during these years. 3.5 Noteworthy Figures 3.5.1 Professor Walter Norwood Leslie Harrison (1904-1966) Well known for his gentle and tolerant personality, Walter Norwood Leslie Harrison was born 28 October 1904 at Ravenswood, North Queensland. He received his secondary

33Malcolm I. Thomis, A Place of Light and Learning: The University of Queensland’s First Seventy-Five Years (1985), p.323. 34Sir Johannes "Joh" Bjelke-Petersen, KCMG (13 January 1911 – 23 April 2005) was an Australian politician. He was the longest-serving and longest-lived Premier of Queensland, holding office from 1968 to 1987, during which time the state enjoyed considerable economic development. His uncompromising conservatism (including his role in the downfall of the Whitlam federal government), his political longevity, and his leadership of a government that, in its later years, was revealed to be institutionally corrupt, made him one of the best-known and most controversial political figures of 20th century Australia. Bjelke-Petersen's Country (later National) Party controlled Queensland despite consistently receiving the smallest number of votes out of the state's leading three parties, achieving the result through a notorious system of electoral malapportionment that resulted in rural votes having a greater value than those cast in city electorates; Wikipedia online at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joh_Bjelke-Petersen. 35University of Queensland Library Annual Report, 1975, p.3; University of Queensland Library Annual Report, 1976, p.20; University of Queensland Library Annual Report, 1977, p.19; University of Queensland Library Annual Report, 1978, p.22; University of Queensland Library Annual Report, 1979, pp.8-11.



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education at the State High School and at All Soul’s School, Charters Towers prior to commencing his undergraduate studies at the University of Queensland in 1923, boarding at St John’s College.

Professor Walter Harrison

Source: University of Queensland UQA S916 Harrison completed his Bachelor of Arts in History graduating with second class honours in 1926 and was selected as Queensland’s Rhodes Scholar for that year, proceeding to the University of Oxford where he graduated in 1929 with first class honours in jurisprudence. A striking feature of Harrison’s career, apart from his outstanding academic achievements, was his success on the athletics field. At the University of Queensland he broke the Varsity and State record for the 440 yard sprint in 1925 and won both the Inter-Varsity and Queensland State Championships for the 440 yard sprint and long jump. While at Oxford he was awarded a Blue for athletics over three consecutive years from 1927 to 1929 and was a member of the Oxbridge team that competed against Harvard and Yale in 1927. Harrison was also one of the few Australians that represented the British Empire against the United States in 1928.36 Returning to Queensland after time spent teaching in Armidale in NSW, Harrison studied for and was called to the Queensland Bar in 1933 and at the final Bar examination was awarded second class honours, the only honours to be awarded in the State since T. J. Ryan in 1901. He supplemented his income by teaching part-time at the University of Queensland’s Department of History and eventually came to prefer academic life and

36 Harrison’s son, Lister Harrison QC has been a leading member of the Queensland Bar for many years in commercial, equity and taxation areas having been admitted in 1968 and taking Silk in 1983. I am indebted to Lister Harrison for assistance with some of the facts concerning his father’s life and career.


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accepted a full-time position at the University as a Lecturer in Law and Social Science beginning on 1 January 1939.37 As a lecturer in the Law School, his appreciation of history marked him as an authority on the topics of legal history and land law. He published numerous works including a land law casebook which was to become the main textbook of the subject for many law schools across the country. In 1948 Harrison was appointed as the fourth Garrick Professor of Law, after the resignation of Mr A.D. McGill, and he became the fourth Dean of the Faculty of Law and Head of the Department. His benign personality directed the fortunes of the growing Law School and in many respects he was responsible for the success of the School over the following decades. Perhaps one of his most lauded achievements in this regard was the introduction prior to the Martin Report recommendations of 1964 of the Articled Clerks’ Course in 1962 which extended University instruction under non-degree courses to those trainees not engaged in tertiary legal education. The introduction of the course did much to raise the standard of legal education for solicitors in the State and raised the Law School’s prominence in the University.38 Alongside his role as lecturer and administrator of the Law School, Professor Harrison also devoted a large part of his time to the functions of University drafting and furnishing legal advice on University administration generally and was responsible for many of the statutes and rules implemented by central administration. Professor Harrison retired as Dean and Head of Department of Law at the end of 1964 due to a heart complaint but he continued as a professor and his lecturing until May 1966.39 On 16 July 1966 Professor Walter Norwood Leslie Harrison died. The Law Library now bears his name in recognition of his services to the School throughout his distinguished career.40 3.4.2 Sir Harry Talbot Gibbs GCMG AC KBE (1917-2005) One of the most famous University of Queensland alumni, Harry Talbot Gibbs (Bill to his early friends), was born in Sydney on 7 February 1917 to prominent Ipswich solicitor Harry Victor Gibbs. Growing up in Ipswich, he attended Ipswich Grammar School before commencing studies at the University of Queensland in 1934. During his time at University Gibbs was extensively involved in a wide range of activities and was inaugural President of the University of Queensland Law Society, President of the University Student Union and Vice-President of Emmanuel College. On one specific occasion, Gibbs disturbed the Women’s Club AGM to have fun by exposing an anomaly in the club’s constitution to insist that he was entitled to be a member. This was conceded

37 The Courier Mail, 21.5.1938 “Mr W.N. Harrison to be Full Time Lecturer”, p.2; Trove web site. 38 The Bar Admission courses and examinations were usually conducted by members of the Bar who were, for the most part, university law graduates. 39 Email from Mr Lister Harrison QC of 30.9.16. 40This section was mainly written by Ryan Gawrych using a number of sources including Ross Johnston, ‘History of the Queensland Bar’ (1979) and ‘University of Queensland Gazette’, July 1966. Further detail on the holders of eh Garrick Chair may be found in Michael White “History of the Garrick Chair at the TC Beirne School of Law” (2010) UQ Law Journal 335-346.


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and they changed the constitution.

Portrait of Sir Harry Gibbs

Source: University of Queensland Archives UQA S916 Gibbs was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree First Class Honours in English Language and Literature in 1937 and he was awarded the P. J. McDermott Memorial Prize for that year. The prize was created in 1925 by the Mrs McDermott to honour her husband and was to be awarded to a candidate receiving a Degree of Bachelor of Arts with Honours in English Language and Literature. In 1939 Gibbs was awarded his LLB First Class Honours and in 1946 his LLM, as to which see under. Gibbs’ fellow student, Thomas George Matthews, was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1937 and an LLB First Class Honours in 1939 for which Matthews was awarded a University Medal.41 Gibbs and Matthews were part of the first cohort that had started the new LLB degree course and of which three had graduated in 1938 but they had to undertake longer study for their honours and so graduated the next year; see Appendix I. Called to the Bar in 1939, Sir Harry Gibbs’ first period in practice was somewhat brief due to the advent of World War II (1939-1945). Enlisting on 2 December 1939, he was given the rank of Staff Sergeant but was then commissioned and served in Australia and New Guinea and finished the war in the rank of Major. He was awarded a Mention in

41 I am indebted to Mr Bruce Ibsen and Dr Margaret Hammer for research into the degrees awarded to Sir Harry Gibbs and Mr Tom Matthews.


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Despatches (MID) for his service in New Guinea. On 17 November 1944 Harry Gibbs married Muriel Dunn, a 1942 law graduate, whom he met while studying at the Law School. With the conclusion of the war, Gibbs returned to the Queensland Bar and part-time academic life at the University of Queensland. During the war he had assisted in planning unified post-war government for the then territories of Papua and New Guinea and it was this practical knowledge that led to his Master of Laws thesis entitled ‘The Laws of the Territory of New Guinea – Their Constitutional Sources and Basic Content,’ awarded in 1946. He also lectured part-time in the Law School from 1948, lecturing in commercial law, evidence and legal interpretation, until he was appointed to the Supreme Court of Queensland in 1961. He was a member of the Board of the Faculty of Law from 1954. After the war he and other prominent returned service personnel established and edited the first edition of the University of Queensland Law Journal in 1951. In 1937 he had been the first president of the UQ Law Students’ Society, see Appendix III. During his time as a University lecturer, Harry Gibbs’ pupils included some of Queensland’s most prominent jurists, including Sir Gerard Brennan and the His Honour Ian Callinan, later a Chief Justice and a Justice of the High Court respectively. It was Gibb’s professional reputation as a learned and formidable advocate that resulted in his success. He took silk on 7 February 1957, his practice further developing with a formidable reputation in appellate, constitutional and opinion work. He appeared in the High Court on 28 occasions and in 1960 argued before the Privy Council, which was his last case as a barrister. He was elevated to the Supreme Court in 1961 at the early age of 44 years, serving on that bench until 1967. Justice Gibbs demonstrated a capacity for manifest fairness and intellectual integrity and his broad experience stood him in good stead. He was the first of the University of Queensland’s Law School graduates to be appointed to the Supreme Court. During his time on the Supreme Court he presided over the 1963 Inquiry into the Australian Sugar Industry. He was also the Commissioner of the 1963-1964 Royal Commission into allegations made against members of the Police Force in relation to their corruption at the National Hotel in Brisbane. He was criticised for being naïve over the National Hotels Commission report findings as there definitely was police corruption over the prostitution carried on there, but he always maintained that his findings were consistent with the evidence laid before him.42 In 1967 Justice Gibbs left Queensland for Sydney as a judge of the Federal Court of Bankruptcy in Sydney and Melbourne and shortly after he was also appointed to the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory. The appointment to the Bankruptcy Court was made, and taken, in the expectation that he would become the first Chief Justice of a proposed new Commonwealth superior court, but that proposal did not proceed. In 1970 he was appointed to the High Court of Australia to replace Sir Frank Kitto and was created a Knight of the British Empire (KBE).

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In 1972 Sir Harry Gibbs was appointed a Privy Counsellor and went to London on three occasions to sit on the Judicial Committee. Within six years of appointment, deaths and retirements meant that he had become the senior member of the High Court and with the eventual retirement of Sir Garfield Barwick in 1981, the Fraser Government appointed Gibbs as the new Chief Justice. Retiring in 1987, Sir Harry Gibbs’ 17 years on the High Court were characterised by a belief in the development of the law by judicial decision, but he remained clear in his conviction that the courts were an inappropriate vehicle for major social change. After retirement Sir Harry and Lady Gibbs lived in Sydney and he became quite active in public affairs, including discussion of constitutional law and related issues and he took part against the proposal for an Australian Republic in the 1999 Australian referendum. He remained active in the wider legal community after his retirement and was Chairman of the Committee Reviewing Commonwealth Criminal Laws from 1987 to 1991 and served as President of the Kiribati Court of Appeal. He was involved with several Queensland Parliamentary inquiries and Chairman of the Australian Tax Research Foundation from 1990. Sir Harry Gibbs also remained heavily involved with the University of Queensland Law School after his retirement. He would often assist as a guest judge in numerous mooting competitions, having a profound impact upon mooters who greatly benefited from his years of experience. It was in this regard that the Sir Harry Gibbs National Constitutional Moot Competition was established at the University, reflecting Sir Harry Gibbs’ passion for the law and commitment to the development of young legal practitioners. Sir Harry Talbot Gibbs died on 25 June 2005, at the age of 88. His commitment to the University of Queensland Law School and to the advocacy skills of its students is reflected in the Sir Harry Gibbs Moot Court.43 Sir Harry Gibbs’ robes and decorations were donated by Lady Gibbs and his family to the Supreme Court of Queensland Library in 2006. 3.4.3 Sir Walter Benjamin Campbell AC (1921-2004) Walter Benjamin Campbell was born at Burringbar, New South Wales, on 4 March 1921, son of a distinguished World War I soldier, Major A.E.G Campbell DSO MC. He attended Downlands College, Toowoomba where he was school captain before receiving an open scholarship to attend the University of Queensland in 1940. In 1941 he interrupted his studies to serve as a RAAF pilot and was awarded his wings on 7 December 1942, the day of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour. Regarded as a natural pilot he was appointed as a flight instructor and was posted to the flying school near Launceston, Tasmania where he was badly injured when the plane in which he was

43 This section on Sir Harry Gibbs was mainly written for the 1st edition by Ryan Gawrych using a number of sources including Res Ipsa (2005) and D.F. Jackson ‘Sir Harry Gibbs’ (2005) 79 Australian Law Journal 651-654. I am indebted to Mr Lister Harrison QC, Sir Harry Gibbs’ Associate when he was a Supreme Court judge, for assistance with some of the facts.


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instructing crashed. His leg injuries were so serious it was doubted he would ever fly again and it was a testament to his characteristic will and determination that only 12 months passed before he was fit enough to do so. While recovering from his injuries and later while still flying, Campbell continued his university studies and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1944. With the end of the war, he returned to his scholarship and accepted an earlier invitation to undertake a Master of Arts which he completed in 1947 with a thesis entitled ‘Utilitarianism and its Effect on Legal and Political Theory’. He continued his legal education graduating in 1948 in his LLB with first class honours. Walter Campbell approached university life with the same enthusiasm and commitment that marked him as a gifted scholar; playing A-Grade rugby union for the University of Queensland, serving as the President of the University of Queensland Law Society, leading the University debating team and editing Semper Floreat. He received the Virgil Power Prize for topping the final two years of his law course, as to which prize see Appendix X. In late 1948 he was admitted to the Bar and he steadily built a busy and eminently successful practice eventually taking silk in 1960. He was regarded as a well-rounded generalist, within reach of the State’s leading Queen’s Counsel at the time including Harry Gibbs and Peter Connolly. It was also during this period that he maintained close connections with the University of Queensland Law School, lecturing part-time in a variety of subjects from 1948 to 1965. He was one of the first practising barristers and recent graduates (along with Harry Gibbs) to be appointed to the Board of the Faculty of Law in 1954 and served on the University Senate from 1963 to 1985. He was University Chancellor from 1976 to 1985 and, as the Queensland Governor, was the University Visitor and the Honorary Colonel of the University of Queensland Regiment and the Royal Queensland Regiment. Appointed to the Supreme Court of Queensland in 1967, Sir Walter Campbell’s time on the bench was characterised by his clear and forthright judgments and a commitment to reforming the administration of the court. He became Chief Justice in 1982 and took the initiative to introduce measures to streamline the allocation of cases in order to reduce delay and increase efficiency, establishing the foundations of the case management strategies that still exist today.


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Sir Walter Campbell with (L to R) Professor Darrell Lumb, Sir Harry Gibbs and Professor Kenneth Sutton

Source: University of Queensland Archives UQA S916 Sir Walter Campbell resigned from judicial office in 1985 to accept an appointment as Governor of Queensland, serving a full five-year term and subsequent re-appointment for another two years. He expected Ministers to brief him on matters where his assent was sought and, in an effort to encourage merit-based appointments, requested reasons for the nomination of particular individuals to public positions. His service and judicial background stood him in good stead in terms of the ceremonial aspects of the office; even donning with equanimity the obligatory woggle as the State’s Chief Scout. As Governor, it was his legal knowledge of the reserve powers and his personal skills that averted a constitutional crisis when the Premier of the time, Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen, lost the confidence of his party and the Parliament. Premier Bjelke-Petersen called on Sir Walter Campbell in an attempt to manipulate Cabinet appointments. The Governor adroitly refused to accept the Premier’s advice, deliberately delaying any response until the Parliament resolved the matter in its own constitutional manner. It is, however, interesting to note that in light of these later developments, Sir Walter Campbell as Chair of the Honorary Degrees Nomination Committee and Chair of the University of Queensland Senate had earlier taken a prominent part in the controversial award to Premier Bjelke-Petersen of an honorary LLD in 1985 which generated considerable unrest on campus and elsewhere. After a short illness Sir Walter Campbell died on 4 September 2004 aged 83. A bronze bust of Sir Walter Campbell was commissioned in 1992 to mark his long and distinguished association with the University of Queensland and his portrait as its


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Chancellor44 hangs in the Senate Room, between the portraits of former Chancellors Sir James Foots and Sir Alan Mansfield, in the Brian Wilson Chancellery at the St Lucia Campus.45

44 Email to author from Stephen Holden, Senior Manager Advancement, UQ dated 19.9.16. 45 Most of this section was written by Ryan Gawrych for the 1st edition using various sources which included Michael White ‘Sir Walter Campbell’ (2004)78 Australian Law Journal 826-828 and ‘Sir Walter Campbell’, The Times, 20 September 2004.


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Chapter 4

Rejuvenation, Success and Expansion: 1980-2006

4.1 Rumblings of the Past and Library Refurbishment 1990 4.2 Academic Advancement 4.3 Centres of Excellence Established 4.4 International Expansion 4.5 Law Faculty Merged into the Business, Economics and Law Faculty 1997 4.6 Second Law Library Refurbishment 2000 4.7 Sir Gerard Brennan Chair Established 4.8 Research and Course Development 4.9 Seventieth Law School Anniversary 2006 4.10 Sir Harry Gibbs Moot Court 4.11 Mooting Successes 4.12 University of Queensland Law Society 4.13 Women Law Students Association; Women and the Law Society; Justice and the

Law Society 4.1 Rumblings of the Past and Library Refurbishment 1990 This chapter covers the period 1980 to 2006 and, while there are too many matters for the chapter to cover them all, it attempts to set out sufficient of them to give a representative framework for this period. With the austerity and unrest of previous years still very much a reality, the early 1980s marked the beginning of significant changes for the T.C. Beirne School of Law and the University of Queensland. Under the guidance of Vice-Chancellor Brian Wilson the perennial issue of declining funding was addressed and the University recommenced its building initiatives and, in September 1981, the psychology building was the first to be completed since the University building program was suspended in 1975.1 At the same time University Chancellor Sir Walter Campbell2 was fighting for greater post-graduate research funding from the Commonwealth Government,3 the number of overseas students increased dramatically, land acquisition projects continued4 and the overall number of students remained above the 18,000 mark. The extension of international enrolments was reflected in several graduation ceremonies being held abroad, with ceremonies held in Manila and Bangkok in early 1981.The University was also attracting a very large share of the best academically qualified Queensland school leavers to undertake study.5

1 University News, 30 September 1981, p.5. 2 See Chapter 3 for details of Sir Walter Campbell’s career. 3 University News, 22 April 1981, p.4. 4 In fact, in 1982 the University of Queensland was accused of a St. Lucia land grab, having acquired 11 local houses in an effort to acquire new land for its new expansion. 5 Malcolm I. Thomis, A place of Light and Learning: The University of Queensland’s First Seventy-Five Years (1985), p.385.


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A string of other projects were to follow and the ominous portents that had appeared on the horizon in the 1970s were disappearing with the injection of substantial capital in new grants.6 Despite the University’s economic reinvigoration, the Law School remained in a dire position. In April 1982 the circumstances at the Law School culminated in the highly publicized occupation of the Law Library and all night ‘study-in’.7 Organized by then University of Queensland Law Society President Paul O’Shea it was supported by Dean Dr. Jim O’Donovan.8 Dr. O’Donovan was present when the students took over the Law Library, when Paul O’Shea made his “impressive television debut” and also later he formalized his support in the form of a letter to the editor of the University Newspaper. The protest involved over 150 law students demanding greater allocation of resources to the deficient Law Library. While this was not the first time students had protested about the Law Faculty’s situation, the overwhelming support received from University staff and members of the legal profession, in addition to the television coverage of the event, meant that it was to provoke immediate action. Following the ‘study-in’, senior members of the Law Faculty and University Administration debated the relative responsibilities of the Commonwealth Government and the University over the lack of financial allocation by the UQ Senior Management for the Law Faculty.9 What resulted was an increase in the allocation of funding to the Law School but the lack of significant support from the Commonwealth Government made it difficult to effect fundamental changes. However the Pearce Report,10 released by the Commonwealth Tertiary Education Commission in 1987, galvanized both the University and the Commonwealth Government to take substantial measures to rectify the inadequacies of the Law Library.11 The report, which reviewed the status of law schools throughout Australia, was particularly critical of the resourcing of the University of Queensland Law Library and deemed it “the most inadequate of any of the university law schools in Australia, given the number of students enrolled”.12 Academically, the Law School was one of the most respected in the country and yet it remained hampered by poor facilities and inadequate funding. This changed a little in 1989 when the University announced a $3.25 million redevelopment of the Law School

6 Malcolm I. Thomis, A place of Light and Learning: The University of Queensland’s First Seventy-Five Years (1985), pp.375-379. 7 University News, 7 April 1982, p.3. 8 University News, 5 May 1982, p.5. Dr O’Shea was later on the Law School staff for many years but returned to private practice as a solicitor in 2015. 9 Malcolm I. Thomis, A place of Light and Learning: The University of Queensland’s First Seventy-Five Years (1985), p.385. 10 D.C. Pearce, Australian Law Schools: A Discipline Assessment for the Commonwealth Tertiary Education Commission (1987). 11 A review of the outcomes of that report commenced in 1992 and was published in 1994. Craig McInnes, Australian Law Schools After the 1987 Pearce Report (1994). 12 D.C. Pearce, Australian Law Schools: A Discipline Assessment for the Commonwealth Tertiary Education Commission (1987), p.759.


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and Law Library. The redevelopment doubled the space of the Law School, while preserving the sandstone home of the Forgan Smith Building and included the addition of new lecture theatres and office space for teaching staff. The design, which won an award from the Royal Australian Institute of Architects for the University and Brisbane architect Mr. Robert Riddel, added an upper level to the western wing of the building, above the site of the law library, enabling the library to increase law space by over 50%13 and capacity from the previously inadequate 69,000 volumes to a potential 170,000.14 The refurbishment of the library also included the addition of new study areas and high-tech facilities and inspired a phase of vigorous library acquisition.15 Accordingly, what resulted was one of the best housed law collections in the country and the state of the new facilities attracted the attention of Queensland University of Technology law students and those of the newly established Griffith University Law School, who found that their own facilities were not as extensive as those provided at the recently refurbished UQ Law Library.16

Opening of the refurbished library in 1990 Source: University of Queensland UQA S916

13 John W East No Mean Plans: Designing the Great Court at the University of Queensland, 2014, p.139. 14 University News, 17 October 1990, p.16. 15 University of Queensland Library Annual Report, 1990, p.20. 16 University of Queensland Library Annual Report, 1990, p.20.


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However funding the expense for all of this was a problem and, unlike other departments within the University that could rely on funding arising solely from University and Government sources, the Law School had to rely on private funding and professional involvement to supplement the fund.17 To this end, a fundraising appeal chaired by Mr. Ken MacDonald, a partner in a leading law firm, was launched in March 1989 to help pay for the redevelopment. A number of sub-committees were formed and through the efforts of members of the legal profession, Judges, Bar and Solicitors, and with the help of various corporations a substantial amount was raised. One of the problems, however, was that some of the alumni did not hold some of the law staff in high regard and refused for that reason to donate.18 A donors’ board listing the names of those individuals and corporations that contributed significant amounts to the fundraising appeal was sited in the centre of the ground floor of the Law Library until the 2016 refurbishment of the Forgan Smith building. A record of all donors that have been able to be recorded over the life of the Law School is set out in Appendix X.

Governor H.E. Sir Walter Campbell AC QC and the Dean of the Law School, Professor Geoffrey Walker, at the opening of the refurbished library 1990

Source: University of Queensland Archives UQA S916 4.2 Academic Advancement While the T.C. Beirne School of Law has always maintained a reputation for academic excellence, the 1990s saw some further advancement in this regard. The Law School approached this decade with a view to advancing legal education, improving facilities,

17 University News, 17 October 1990, p.16. 18 The author was on a Bar sub-committee seeking donations from members of the Queensland Bar and this response was not uncommon.


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expanding research output and strengthening international affiliations, while ensuring students were provided with a sound foundation to develop future careers in the law.19 Changes to both undergraduate and postgraduate studies were marketed and developed. Changes in program structure, course flexibility and diversity as well as greater interaction with the legal profession, business, industry and government, reflected the School’s commitment to addressing a complex and competitive environment.20 4.3 Centres of Excellence Established An important part of greater scholarly advancement in this period was the establishment of several Centres of Excellence, as they were then called. In 1991 the Australian Institute of Foreign and Comparative Law (AIFCL), one of the School’s most successful and well regarded research centres, was established to promote research and teaching in foreign law and comparative law with a special emphasis on areas of law relating to international trade and commerce. Several years earlier the Centre for Legal and Economic Study of Institutions had been established which in September 2003 was superceded by the the newly established Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law (CPICL). Throughout the 1990s a variety of other research centres were established. The highly regarded Centre for Maritime Law (CML) was established in 1999 with a group of maritme lawyers which was the strongest group of shipping and Admiralty lawyers in Australia. The author was the Executive Director and Dr Sarah Derrington, now the Dean and Head of School, was the other director. In 2005 this changed its administrative structure into the Marine and Shipping Law Unit (MASLU). They were gradually joined by others and have achieved international recognition for scholarship, research and consultative skills in maritime law, international law of the sea and related areas. Sarah Derrington also established and ran the annual International Commercial Maritime Arbitration Law Moots until Kate Lewins, Murdoch University, Perth, took over in 2006. The moot gradually expanded in numbers and in 2016, when it was held in Essex University, England, 29 university teams competed. See later in this chapter and in Chapter 5 for more on mooting. The Australasian Centre for Intellectual Property in Agriculture (ACIPA) also transferred from another university to the Law School and its research into intellectual property issues in agricultural developments was highly regarded. Run jointly with Griffith University and the Australian National University, the Centre engaged in innovative, independent and critical research, whilst remaining focused on the development of pragmatic and workable solutions. It held conferences and seminars in Brisbane and Canberra and ran a number of Intellectual Property Training Workshops for the grains, horticulture and rural industries throughout Australia.21

19 T.C. Beirne School of Law Handbook, 1990, p.1. 20 T.C. Beirne School of Law Handbook, 1993, p.1. 21 The driving force behind the team at the Law School was Dr Bradley Sherman.


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The centres all received national and international recognition, attracting leading scholars and experts from around the world for their courses and conferences and this also enhanced legal teaching more widely. One of the missed opportunities in this period was the failure to establish the Australian Centre for Commerce, Law and Tax (ACCLAT) with particular emphasis on investigating and examining the dynamic between law and economics. Dr Jeff Mann, then a partner in the leading law firm of Mallesons Stephen Jaques,22 proposed it in 2000 and in 2006 he joined the Law School for that and teaching purposes.23 It was strongly supported by the then Law Dean Professor Tony Tarr and BEL Executive Dean Professor Tim Brailsford, and was fully funded from sources that Dr. Mann had organized. Its importance was such that it was decided that it would be better in the larger BEL Faculty and, in collaboration with the economics staff, including Professor John Mangan, it became the Economics and Law Research Unit (ELRU). The ELRU did good work but the support for it faded with a change of BEL Executive Dean and the Head of the Law School and in 2013 Dr Mann resigned from the Law School and returned to the private sector.24 His contribution to the Law School had extended over a lengthy period with him being honoured by the University being created an Academic Fellow in 199225 and Doctor of Laws (Honoris causa) in 2001. 4.4 International Expansion Over these years the Law School also began to focus more keenly on its relationships with law schools throughout the United States, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. Joint exchange programs such as that with the Marquette University Law School, Wisconsin, United States and University of British Columbia in Canada were established, as were cooperative law programs in Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand. Apart from strengthening its financial position, these programs also served to increase the Law School’s reputation abroad and attracted leading legal academics from across the globe. The Law School also encouraged legal academics from overseas and hosted judges and academics from France, Germany, Indonesia, Egypt and China. In October 1999 the Law School was also the first to appoint a visiting professor in Islamic law when Professor Tarr invited Professor Dr. Haji Mahmud Saedon bin Awang Othman to teach Islamic Law with Dr Ann Black but, sadly, Professor Saedon died before he could take up the appointment.26

22 At time of writing the firm is King & Wood Mallesons with major offices in Brisbane and many other cities. 23 Email Dr.Jeff Mann AM to author dated 27.8.16. 24 Email Dr.Jeff Mann AM to author dated 27.8.16. Professor Mangan became the inaugural director of the Australian Institute for Business and Economics (2014-2015); see UQ web site http//researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/80. 25 Minutes of Board of the Faculty of Law of 7.10.1992. The title ‘Academic Fellow’ was established by the UQ Senate at its meeting of 4.6.1992 to award ‘distinguished outsiders providing a specialist, part-time teaching service to academic departments’; Board of Faculty of Law Minutes, above; Press Release by Acting Law Dean dated 15.10.1992; Forms of Action, The Staff Newsletter of the University of Queensland Law Department, 9.9.1993 (edited by Professor Geoff Walker). 26 I am indebted to Associate Professor Ann Black for information about the Islamic Law aspects.


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The year 1997 also saw the Law School achieve substantial international accolades. In February the International Academy of Comparative Law in Paris announced, due to the efforts of Professor Gabriel Moens, that the T.C. Beirne School of Law’s Australian Institute of Foreign and Comparative Law had won the right to host the 16th Congress in 2002.27 The event, which was held in July 2002, was attended by more than 1,000 legal scholars, academics, legal practitioners and judges from throughout the world. 4.5 Law Faculty Merged into the Business, Economics and Law Faculty 1997 Administratively, the running of the Law School also changed quite substantially in 1997 when it was subsumed into the newly created Faculty of Business, Economics and Law (BEL).28 Combining the Departments of Management, Commerce and Economics, the Law School and the Department of Hospitality, Tourism and Property Management, the restructuring was part of the implementation of Vice-Chancellor John Hay’s requirement for a more streamlined university administrative structure.29 In 1998 the University of Queensland was named Australia’s University of the Year for excellence in teaching, research and graduate outcomes. This accolade was assisted in part by the Law School with its lecturers being responsible for almost half of the Australian legal teaching awards during the 1990s.30 4.6 Second Law Library Refurbishment 2000 By 1998 it was clear that the broadening fields of research interests in the Law School, in addition to rapid advancements in electronic information delivery, meant that the Law Library was once again in need of refurbishment and development.31 With financial support from the Law School, the BEL Faculty and the University’s research program through the Blair fund, a comprehensive upgrade of the Law Library’s technological capabilities and services was undertaken in a two-stage project.32 With the assistance of Wilson Architects, the first stage commenced over the 1999 July student holiday period and saw the redevelopment of the upper levels to provide computer training rooms, additional study rooms, email facilities, improved print and copy services and accommodation for postgraduate students. At the same time a more logical arrangement of the print collection with seating facilities more suitable for new trends in learning was implemented. The second stage of refurbishment commenced over the 1999-2000 Christmas break and resulted in the development of a new high use service for books reserved for this purpose,

27 University News, 6 February 1997. 28 Judith Nissen and Moya Pennell, Mastering Management: A History of the Department of Management the University of Queensland, 2005, p.88. 29 Much of the preparation and implementation was the sound work of Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor Ted Brown. 30 T.C. Beirne School of Law Undergraduate Program, 2003, p.3. 31 University News, 14 January 1998. 32 Walter Harrison Law Library, Law Libraries Symposium, November 1999, p.5.


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upgraded service points and new office space for Law Library staff.33 Importantly, considering the Law School’s mooting successes, the moot court was renovated and relocated to a new section on the ground floor. Renamed the ‘Sir Harry Gibbs Moot Court’ after one of its most prominent graduates, it was officially opened in July 2000 by Sir Harry Gibbs himself. The moot court provided an invaluable facility in the Law School’s development of student advocacy and competitive mooting. See under for more detail about the Moot Court. 4.7 Sir Gerard Brennan Chair Established Prior to the first stage of redevelopment, the Law School announced the establishment of a new chair in law honouring the former Chief Justice of the High Court Sir Gerard Brennan.34 A graduate of the Law School Sir Gerard Brennan and his wife, Lady (Patricia) Brennan, attended a special function on 26 March 1999 to appoint the Head of School, Professor Anthony A. Tarr, as the first Sir Gerard Brennan Professor of Law. The $1.4 million fund for the chair, provided jointly by the University and private donors from the judiciary and the legal profession,35 was an integral part of the Law School’s continuing process of renewal. 4.8 Research and Course Development The late 1990s and the early 2000s also saw the Law School refocus its attention on the needs and services provided to postgraduate students, resulting in a diverse range of new programs. Aside from increased placements for PhD research in the Law School, including through its relevant research centres, the School provided an increased number of specializations for the Master of Laws coursework program. In1994 a Masters degree of Taxation was established.36 It was proposed by Dr. Jeff Mann who volunteered his services as Founding Co-ordinator and as a part time lecturer while still in practice. It was supported by Professors Kamal Puri, Geoff Walker and Tony Tarr. By 2001 the development of courses included almost a dozen specializations, including commercial law, comparative international law, intellectual property law, maritime and shipping law, public law and taxation law. Similarly, the School began offering postgraduate law studies for non-law graduates in the form of the Master of Legal Science program and commenced the Juris Doctor degree course.37 The JD program offered a structured law course to graduates of other disciplines that would satisfy the academic qualifications for admission to the Queensland legal profession. From 2001 these initiatives were supplemented by the Practical Legal Education and Training Course (PLEAT) that provided the practical legal training for admission so that law

33 University of Queensland Library Annual Report, 2000, p.20. 34 University News, 25 March 1999. 35 In 1997 a Committee was established to raise half of the $1.4 million and through the efforts in 1998 of Justice Glen Williams, Adjunct Professor Dr Jeff Mann and others the funds were raised. A donor board of individuals and law firms that contributed to the fund was located on the level three of the Forgan Smith Building in the corridor outside the Law School office before the 2016 refurbishment. Appendix X has the list of donors over the years. 36 Memo Professor AA Tarr to Dr. Jeff Mann dated 27.1.1999; TC Beirne School of Law 1999.Prospectus. I am indebted to Dr Jeff Man AM for assistance with this aspect of the chapter. 37 University News, 6 September 1999.


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students could do the course and be admitted to practice almost immediately on completion of their degree.38 With continual changes in the courses offered under both undergraduate and postgraduate programs to reflect teaching and research specialties, the Law School continued to grow and strengthen its reputation in the years following 2001. In this regard, the School’s commitment to the development of its students was reflected in the fact that graduates of the School were awarded an unprecedented four Rhodes Scholarships in the 2003 to 2005 period (see Appendix VI). The School’s position as a leader in the Asia-Pacific region was also established during this time with the School’s Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law taking up editorship of the prestigious LAWASIA Journal in 2004.39 One of the initiatives from the 1990s was the closer linking of the Law School with its alumni. In 1992 Dr Jeff Mann suggested to the Law Faculty Board (since abolished) that a graduates association should be established. This was taken up and he and others founded the Law Graduates Association, successively chaired by the Honourable Peter Connolly CBE, The Honourable Kevin Ryan CBE and the Honourable Glen Williams AO, all justices of the Supreme Court. It held regular events and was an important link between the Law School staff and its graduates. The LGA is currently chaired by Mr John McKenna QC. 4.9 Seventieth Law School Anniversary 2006 The Law School was founded in 1936 so the 70th anniversary occurred in 2006 at which time the 1st edition of this book was published. At the time, the School comprised over 50 full-time academics and a complement of part-time lecturers together with 21 adjunct professors who lectured on an honourary basis. As well, from time to time there were visiting international academics from New Zealand, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Singapore, the United States and the People’s Republic of China. Its student body was comprised of 1,800 students, which included over 500 engaged in postgraduate studies. The School rightly claimed that it had educated some of the finest legal minds in Australia with its graduates including Chief Justices of the High Court and of the Supreme Court of Queensland, Governors of Queensland, judges of the High Court, Federal Court, State Supreme Courts, District Courts and Magistracy as well as academics, leaders of the Bar and major law firms. (Appendix VIII lists the superior court judges). Graduates of the T.C. Beirne School of Law also regularly won some of the world’s most coveted scholarships (Appendix VI). It is appropriate to turn now to some particular aspects of the Law School over this period.

38 T.C. Beirne School of Law Handbook, 2001, p.22. 39 The LAWASIA Journal is the scholarly publication of the Law Association for Asia and the Pacific, an international professional association of bar councils, law associations, individual lawyers, law firms and corporations in the Asia-Pacific region.


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4.10 Sir Harry Gibbs Moot Court The University of Queensland moot court was and is a source of great pride for the Law School. Preserving some of the atmosphere of Brisbane’s colonial heritage, the moot court consisted of the original red cedar panelling and furniture from the former Supreme Court building which was donated to the Law School after fire severely damaged the courthouse in 1968. Through the efforts of Senior Lecturer in Law Dr. John Forbes and the Queensland Works Department the court panelling and furniture had been first installed in the Law School in late 1973 and was one of the first such purpose-built moot courts in Australia. In November 1979 the first annual moot court competition final was held before a bench comprising the then Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, the Honourable Justice Sir Charles Wanstall, the University Chancellor, the Honourable Justice Sir Walter Campbell and the immediate past president of the Bar Association Mr JM Macrossan QC (later the Honourable John Macrossan AC, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court). During renovations of the law library over 1999-2000, the moot court was located back to the ground level of the library, named after the Honourable Sir Harry Gibbs GCMG AC KBE, one of the Law School’s most distinguished graduates and former Chief Justice of the High Court (1981-1987) and it was officially opened on 14 July 2000. All of the Queensland cedar furniture was extensively refurbished and modern electronic equipment was installed along with a replacement Queensland coat of arms to hang behind the Bench. A portrait of Sir Harry Gibbs, painted by Sir William Dargie, was hung in the court, as were donations of items from various persons and entities, including a photograph of the former Supreme Court building donated by the Supreme Court Library Committee.40

40 The original research and writing for this section was done for the 1st edition by Ryan Gawrych working from TC Beirne School of Law Newsletter, July 2000. It has been revised by the author who was involved with the installation of the Sir Harry Gibbs Moot Court in 2000 working closely with Professor Tony Tarr, the Law School head who was the originator of many initiatives of this period.


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L to R on the bench: Sir Gerard Brennan, Sir Harry Gibbs and Chief Justice Paul de Jersey in the Moot Court in 2000 with mooters Peter Rawlings and Sarah McCosker41

Source: University of Queensland Archives UQA S916 Innumerable mooting competitions and mooting classes have been held in the court and the furniture has born witness to some of the most colourful advocates the Law School has ever produced. The Moot Court precinct was again changed in the Forgan Smith premises renovations in 2016 (see Chapter 5) and the current proposal is to install it in the premises that the Law School proposes it will establish in the city. 4.11 Mooting Successes The T.C. Beirne School of Law has for the most part had a distinguished reputation for mooting success both in Australia and abroad. Since the mooting program began in 1969 under the guidance of Senior Lecturer Dr John Forbes mooting has become an important part of the School’s curriculum and students participate in several moots during their studies. It is testament to the talent of its students and the dedication of the staff and graduate coaches that the Law School has distinguished itself on so many occasions.

41 Peter Rawlings was in the 1999 Jessup team and his wife Emma (Wilke), also a Law School graduate, were recent generous donors to the mooting program. Sarah McCosker, a member of the 2001 Jessup team, is the daughter of the former governor H.E. Penny Wensley AC, a UQ Arts graduate and strong UQ supporter, and her husband Stuart McCosker, a UQ Veterinary school graduate. Sarah is the niece of the late Robert Wensley QC a Law School graduate and long serving member of the University Senate. Sarah currently works for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva and Peter works for a merchant bank in London. I am indebted to Professor Anthony Cassimatis for assistance with these facts.


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In April 1997 the Law School students won the prestigious Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot competition at the University of Vienna’s Faculty of Law, again with the help of Professor Moens.42 With teams from over 50 law schools from across the globe, the University of Queensland team43 defeated the University of Cologne, Germany in the final. In subsequent years the UQ Team was placed first in the 1998, 1999, and 2000 competitions. Unfortunately, due in part to budgetary constraints but mainly because Professor Moens went to another university, a team representing the University of Queensland did not participated from 2002 to 2016 after which they recommenced when Professor Moens returned to UQ as an Emeritus Professor.

Winning 1997 UQ Vis Moot Team with the Governor General and other VIPs

L to R: Lisa Ford, Joanne Coates, Dugald Wishart, Lisa Cohn, Darren Peacock, Michael L. Sher,44 The Hon. Sir William Patrick Deane AC KBE QC, Governor-

General, Professor Gabriel Moens and the Hon. Sir LLew Edwards AC, UQ Chancellor.

Source: University of Queensland Archives UQA S916

42 University News, 16 April 1997. 43 The team was coached by Professor Gabriel Moens who in 1999 won an Australian Award for University Teaching and a UQ Excellence in Teaching Award. I am indebted to Professor Gabriel Moens for assistance with details about the Vis Moot. 44 Mr Michael L. Sher was the co-founder of the Vis Moot. He was an attorney in New York and he was associated with UNCITRAL. He was invited by UQ, as an official representative of the Willem C Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot, to come to UQ in 1997 to celebrate the spectacular win of our students. He also gave some lectures at UQ. He died several years ago and one of the major prizes in the Moot are named in his honour.

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Some of the mooting has been mentioned earlier in this chapter, but in the 2000s teams representing the Law School won the international finals in the following competitions: Willem C Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot; John Marshall International Moot Court Competition in Information Technology and Privacy Law; Phillip C Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition; International Maritime Law Arbitration Moot and Red Cross International Humanitarian Law Moot Competition. The Law School consistently was placed highly and its teams won on numerous occasions a variety of other domestic mooting competitions including the Shine Roche McGowan Torts Moot, the National Family Law Moot and the Sir Harry Gibbs National Constitutional Moot.

UQ wins the 2005 Jessup Moot competition, in which 517 law schools competed

L to R: Nick Luke, Cameron Forsaith, Julian Ensby, Ruth Catts, Stephen Colditz, Dr Anthony Cassimatis (coach)

Source: University of Queensland Archives UQA S916 In addition to these external competitions, the University of Queensland Law Society (UQLS) ran its own junior and senior mooting competition each year with finalists representing the Law School at the annual Australian Law Students’ Association (ALSA) conference. The UQLS also ran competitions in client interviewing, witness examination


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and negotiation and in 2005 had a team win through to the semi-finals of the International Negotiation Competition held in Dublin. Students representing the Law School have also won the International Commercial Online Dispute Resolution Competition on several occasions. Overall the mooting efforts in 2005 resulted in Law School student teams winning an unprecedented number of international and domestic mooting competitions: the Phillip C Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, the International Maritime Law Arbitration Moot, the Red Cross International Humanitarian Law Moot, the International Competition for Online Dispute Resolution in Arbitration and the National Family Law Moot. Teams were also placed in the semi-finals for the International Negotiation Competition, the Sir Harry Gibbs National Constitutional Moot and the Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot in which he team also won the prize for Best Memorials. The mooting programs covering 2007 to 2016 are dealt with in Chapter 5. 4.12 University of Queensland Law Society The next three sections deal with law student societies and, in order to set out their activities over the whole period, they are taken up to 2015 instead of the most recent decade being dealt with in the next chapter. The University of Queensland Law Society (UQLS) was founded in 1936 by an enthusiastic team, amongst whom was HT Gibbs (Sir Harry Gibbs). Since this time, the UQLS has come to play an integral part in the life of the Law School and law students. It is not possible to set out all of the people involved or the major events in the life of the UQLS since 1936 so a snapshot of activities in 2015 is given which, it is hoped, will give some understanding of its activities. In 2015 the UQLS was the largest student society at the University of Queensland, and it remains one of the biggest student societies in Australia. In recent years, membership has reached 7000 members. The members are drawn from many Schools at the University, but the dominant focus of the Society remains the representation and service of law students, including those law students who are not its members. The society’s activities and programs range across seven key portfolios; Careers & Sponsorship, Competitions, Education, Equity, L Card & Socials, Publications and Sports. The activities of the Society are undertaken by an elected Executive Committee, which is comprised of students who assume responsibility for specific areas or portfolios. The UQLS seeks to represent and advocate the needs of students. One of the key roles of the Education portfolio is to represent students’ interests to staff and to sit on Law School advisory boards; consult with students about academic concerns; the facilitation of educational seminars; and to organise the annual Sir Harry Gibbs Lecture. Further, the UQLS aims to establish links between students and members of the legal profession with a view to creating opportunities for career development and mentoring through, for example, annual Careers Week seminars and a Barristers Work Experience Program. The


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Society also administers a wide range of legal competitions, including the popular mooting competitions and skills-based activities such as negotiation, witness examination, client interviewing and paper presentation. The Equity portfolio of the UQLS works to ensure that law school and the UQLS events are accessible to all students, with the administration of equity grants and the textbook loan program. This portfolio organises equity forums, postgraduate and international student events and UQLS first year programs. Beginning with the traditional first year dinner and first year barbeques, the UQLS runs the First and Second Year Retreat and the Buddy Program, pairing up older law students with first years. The UQLS also facilitates social interaction and activities for law and other students of the University. By far the biggest event on the UQLS social calendar is the annual Law Ball, which in 2015 had 1500 attendees. Other key events include the Valedictory Law Dinner, the L Card Launch Parties, Pub Crawl, Croquet, Bands Night and Meet-the-Exec events.

University of Queensland Law Society Executive at 2015 Law Ball

Source: UQLS; Miranda Neep

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Together with QUT and Griffith, the UQLS hosts several L Card parties throughout the year. Students are provided with an enhanced opportunity to get active and involved in sports. The sports portfolio organises the annual Law Cup, as well as coordinating social sport teams and working with the Law School to create Staff vs Student sporting matches. In 2015 the staff and students went head to head in a cricket match and a volleyball match. On a cultural front, the Society attracts large crowds to the Law Revue, which is a major annual event for the wider university, in which students showcase their acting and musical talents. Publications are produced in a wide range of materials to assist students with their careers and studies. The yearbook Res Ipsa features accounts of law school life and the profiles of graduating students. Directions provides students applying for jobs with vital career advice and the ever popular LLB Guide gives students the chance to review the law subjects on offer, with submissions from their peers reviewing each course. The Society also publishes a satirical publication, Obiter, which in 2015 changed to a website format. Each year the members of a new team of the UQLS executive brings their own vision for new events, programs and fresh ideas on how to improve on existing events to develop and improve the services for its members. . The presidents of the UQLS are set out in Appendix III.45 4.13 Women Law Students Association; Women and the Law Society; Justice and the Law Society The Women Law Students Association (WLSA) was established over 1979-1980 and, after serving a very useful function for several years, it then lapsed in the mid-1980s. Its known presidents during its years included Maria Borsellino (Feeney), Diane Fingleton, Roslyn Atkinson and Diane Soon. The Women and the Law Society (WATL) was formed in 1993 to address some judicial remarks at rape trials indicating bias against women. WATL aimed to address gender inequality before the law, in the legal profession and in the Law School. At the time, although approximately half of the law students were female, less than ten percent of the judiciary and barristers were women, and female partners in law firms were few and far between. Women were also under represented in general legal academia. WATL organised numerous events to advance its aims over the next 15 years and in 2008 WATL was renamed Justice and the Law Society (JATL) to better encompass its growing role in the Law School. JATL is a student society that aims to promote student interest in and discussion of the intersection between the law and social justice, whilst providing opportunities for professional networking and career development. Some of its focuses include raising awareness of the interaction between the law and social justice,

45 The original research and writing for the UQLS section was done for the 1st edition by Caitlin Goss now, having completed her DPhil at Oxford on her Rhodes Scholarship, is on the Law School staff. For this edition it has been updated by Georgia Morgan 2015 UQLS President and Keilin Anderson.


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examining the social context surrounding the legal system, facilitating discussion about the law and its implications and professional networking and career development.

Justice and the Law Executive 2016 L to R: Back: Sunny van den Berg, Rin Shimada, Emily McClelland, Jasmine Zamprogno, Prianka Thomas. Front: Rose Leonforte, Madeleine Gifford, Jocelyn Bosse, Chloë Bennett, Kate Pidgeon, Julius Moller.

Source: Justice and the Law Society Each year JATL publishes the Pandora’s Box journal, a print edition which includes interviews and articles by both academics and students. This has also been expanded to Pandora’s Blog which is updated throughout the year online on the JATL website. JATL is the only society in the Law School to provide such a platform. JATL's Beyond Eagle Street program features events such as Wigs at the Bar, Speed Networking, Law Beyond the Border and the Annual Professional Breakfast. The program aims to give law students a holistic perspective on the career opportunities before them. Additionally, JATL has expanded its activities to include a year long series of social justice forums focused on current events and the law. In 2015 JATL hosted its inaugural Gala, a charity event for the Law School and the wider legal community. JATL continues to be a vibrant and thriving society promoting gender equality, social justice and professional education.


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A note about WLSA and the list of presidents of WATL and JATL are set out in Appendix IV.46

46 The original research and writing for this section was done for the 1st edition by Kathryn Purcell, the 2005 President of the WATL which has been revised for this 2nd edition by Chloe Bennet, 2016 Secretary, and Keilin Anderson.


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Chapter 5

Development, New Courses andRefurbishment2007-2016

5.1 Introduction 5.2 Heads and Deans of School 5.3 Legal Education Requirements and Curriculum Changes 5.3.1 New UQ Student Strategy 2016 5.4 Practical Legal Training 5.5 Legal Education Courses 5.5.1 Introduction 5.5.2 LLB and Dual Courses 5.5.3 Honours 5.5.4 Juris Doctor Degree (JD) 5.5.5 Masters Degrees by Coursework 5.5.6 Research Higher Degrees 5.5.7 New Teaching Method from 2017 5.6 Research Centres 5.6.1 Centre for Public International & Comparative Law (CPICL) 5.6.2 Australian Centre for Private Law (ACPL) 5.6.3 Marine and Shipping Law Unit (MASLU) 5.7 Law School Programs

5.7.1 Pro Bono Centre 5.7.2 Clinical Legal Education 5.7.3 Continuing Professional Development 5.8 Exchanges with Overseas Law Schools 5.9 Practitioners-in-Residence 5.10 Law School Intake Numbers 5.11 Finances 5.12 Mooting and Competitions 5.12.1 Introduction 5.12.2 Annual David Jackson Dinner 5.12.3 Jessup Moots 5.12.4 Maritime Law Moots 5.12.5 Other Moots 5.12.6 Legal Skills Competitions 5.13 Law Teaching Excellence 5.14 Refurbishment of Forgan Smith Building Premises

5.14.1 Refurbishment Works ` 5.14.2 Forgan Smith Funding Program

5.14.2.1 Mr John Storey AO 5.14.2.2 Hon Dr Margaret White AO 5.14.2.3 Mr James Bell QC 5.14.2.4 Fund Raising Committee Members


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5.1Introduction The previous chapters have each dealt with various periods in the earlier history of the Law School and this chapter deals with the period from 2007 to the middle of 2016. During this decade a lot of development of courses and structures occurred and, at the time of writing in mid-2016, the 80th anniversary year of the founding of the TC Beirne School of Law (the TCB or Law School), the pace of change continues. These changes are mentioned in this chapter and the current situation is set out as a record for future historians of how matters stood about the middle of 2016. It is not only the Law School that is changing but so is the whole University. One aspect is that in mid-August 2016 the rankings were announced by one of the leading world indices on university rankings and UQ had made prodigious advances up the list to be ranked number 55 in the world and second in Australia, after Melbourne University at number 40.1 It is the best result since rankings began in in 2003 with UQ moving up from number 90 in 2012 and from number 77 in 2015.2 5.2 Heads and Deans of School Over the period 2003 to the end of 2016 there were five Heads of School, which is a fairly high turnover for a law school. At the TCB the positions of Head of School and the Dean were combined into the one person after 1998.After Professor Tony Tarr left for a USA position in 2002, Professor John Devereux was the Acting Head for about a year. Professor Charles Rickett came from the University of Auckland’s Faculty of Law and took up the position on 1 August 2003. He resigned on 31 December 2007. Professor Ross Grantham came to the TCB also from Auckland University, shortly after Professor Rickett and, having been the Deputy Head under Professor Rickett, was appointed Head from 1 January 2008 until 21 January 2012. Professor Gerard Carney commenced in the position on 30 January 2012 but he resigned on 25 January 2013 because of difficulties in pursuing a change of agenda for which he was not getting the full support of the University hierarchy. Professor Nick Gaskell, who had come to the TCB from the Southampton Law School and was much appreciated for his knowledge and standing in maritime law, was appointed the Acting Head on 28 January 2013 until the 30 June of that year. Professor Sarah Derrington, previously Director of Studies at the BEL Faculty but who had resigned to pursue a full time career at the Queensland Bar, was appointed on 1 July 2013 for a period of five years.3 The names of the Heads and Deans of the TCB from the first appointments in 1936 are set out, along with other senior staff appointments, in Appendix II. 5.3 Legal Education Requirements and Curriculum Changes The various methods of teaching law and the content of what the English law students were taught in the common law are set out in numerous histories of the English system

1 Academic Ranking of World Universities, web site http://www.shanghairanking.com/ARWU2016.html. 2 ‘UQ Update’ newsletter dated 15.8.16. 3 The dates have kindly been researched from the UQ files by Mr Declan Hughes, Human Resources Manager in the BEL Faculty.


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from the medieval period.4 They are too lengthy even to summarise in this book and it is sufficient to mention that there was tension between the common law method of teaching in the Inns of Court, London and the civil law taught by the two universities at Oxford and Cambridge. The former taught with a focus on the decisions by the judges under the common law while the latter had a focus more on an intellectual and theoretical level under the civil law. To some extent this tension exists today and a summary of how these tensions have been dealt with and a short history of the development of the Australian legal educational structure is desirable to show the convoluted background for the current Law School teaching and courses. When the British Colony was established in NSW (Sydney) in 1788 there were no lawyers and as the various constitutional and governance structures developed so did the number of lawyers from England. From there legal training in Australia gradually developed. A major speech and paper in 2011 by High Court Chief Justice Robert French, which he called ‘Legal Education in Australia – A Never Ending Story,5 neatly summarised the theme and in the paper he traversed the history of legal education in England and then in Australia. As the title implies his theme was that legal education gradually changed from a focus on the early English Common Law to teaching the Australian developments from it, especially since Federation in 1901 and the constitutional Australian differences with a federation and a written constitution. Over the more recent period the subject of legal education and training was the subject of a series of major reports and these are well summarised by the Law Admissions Consultative Committee (LACC), from whose web site I have drawn heavily for this information. The LACC is comprised of representatives of the Law Admitting Authority in each Australian jurisdiction, the Committee of Australian Law Deans, the Australasian Professional Legal Education Council and the Law Council of Australia. It is generally responsible to the Australian and New Zealand Council of Chief Justices, which appoints the Chairman of the Committee. The LACC's main role is to forge consensus between the various bodies relating to academic and practical legal training requirements for admission to the Australian legal profession, the accreditation and appraisal of academic and practical legal training institutions and courses, and other matters related to admission to practise law.6 It is the admission to practise law that is the controlling influence in the curricula of law schools and the TCB as a mainly professional law school has usually taken great care

4 The Selden Society book of 2015 publishes the readings (lectures) in the London Inns of Court over 1430 to 1540 and are a valuable resource about the content of teaching in those Inns over that century, see Margaret McGlynn (Ed.), The Rights and Liberties of the English Church: Readings from the Pre-reformation Inns of Court, 2015, Selden Society, London. Also see Sir John Baker ‘Legal Education in London 1250-1350’, Selden Societey Lecture of 4.7.2005, Selden Society Booklet, 2007. 5 The Hon Robert French AC, Chief Justice of Australia, ‘Legal Education in Australia – A Never Ending Story’ speech to the Australasian Law Teachers’ Association on 4 July 2011,in Brisbane, published on High Court web site at http://www.hcourt.gov.au/publications/speeches/current/speeches-by-chief-justice-french-ac. 6 LACC web site http://www.lawcouncil.asn.au/LACC/.

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since its establishment to meet these requirements.7 In 1976, a National Conference on Legal Education endorsed a suggestion by Justice Charles Bright, then Chancellor of Flinders University, that an Australian Legal Education Council (ALEC) be established. Under the chairmanship of Justice Gordon Samuels ALEC sought to follow in the steps of the Ormrod Committee in the UK (1971), to identify a common "core" of compulsory subjects which all law schools would agree to teach to undergraduate law students, including those who sought admission to the legal profession.8 In June 1978 the Victorian Council of Legal Education established an Academic Course Appraisal Committee under the chairmanship of Justice Richard McGarvie. It proposed amendments to the Victorian Admission Rules late in 1979, which provided for the Council of Legal Education to accredit subjects in a law course that provided a student with basic understanding and competence in most of the areas presently specified in the Academic Requirements, plus some other subjects. Law schools questioned the impact that the new requirements imposed by the Victorian Council of Legal Education would have on student demand and choice and on the academic interests and expertise of staff as well as on other institutional and resourcing matters. As a result of these reservations, the Academic Course Appraisal Committee launched an exhaustive enquiry, culminating in a Report on Legal Knowledge Required for Admission to Practise, presented to the Council in October 1982 (the McGarvie Report).

The McGarvie Report took into account a recommendation by LACC's predecessor, to compile significant documents which werefurther developed by LACC and subsequently adopted by Admitting Authorities in each Australian jurisdiction. It also examined work completed by a committee of ALEC, chaired by Professor Horst Lucke,9 in its Report on Core Subjects (February 1981). ALEC's ultimate recommendation in March 1982 recommended that Australian applicants should be required to have studied the areas recommended by LACC's predecessor, plus Evidence, Procedure, Professional Conduct and Trust Accounts.

In the early 1990s, problems generated by differing admission rules in the States and Territories led to the establishment of a Consultative Committee of State and Territory Law Admitting Authorities, chaired by Justice LJ Priestley. That Committee released a Discussion Paper on Uniform Admission Requirements in 1992. It did not seek to dictate curriculum requirements or compulsory subjects to universities. Rather, it favoured the specification of broad areas of knowledge in which applicants for admission would need to demonstrate basic knowledge and

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competence. There were 11 such areas, which have become known as ‘the Priestley 11,’10and which remain the basis for subjects offered by law schools for those seeking to be admitted to the profession. Because of the potential costs to law schools of responding to different regulatory requirements, LACC has also encouraged Admitting Authorities in the States and self-governing Territories to participate in, and to adapt to their purposes, accreditation and review processes undertaken by other regulators.11

The Council of Law Deans (CALD) had established Standards in 2009 which had been expected to be used for accreditation of law school courses by Admitting Authorities but in 2013 CALD decided that they should not be used for accreditation purposes. Further, the Law Schools became self-accrediting of their own courses with no independent reviews.

In 2011 the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Act 2011 (Cth) (TEQSA) created a Commonwealth body with power to adopt standards for tertiary qualifications, including law, and to accredit higher education providers against those standards. However, TEQSA required that where professional accreditation of a course of study is required for graduates to be eligible to practise the course of study must still be accredited by the relevant professional body,12so the system for law was back where it started. The task of accrediting law courses against the standards is formidable, so s 49 of the TEQSA Act provided for TEQSA to authorise higher education providers to be self-accrediting, subject to periodic auditing by TEQSA. As at February 2016, CALD has advised LACC that all 38 Australian law schools are self-accrediting providers.13

Given the importance of law courses to the legal profession and the intense commercial competition amongst law schools, the LACC concluded there was an underlying conflict of interest with law schools being self-accrediting. So the LACC prepared Standards for use by State and Territory Admitting Authorities which are intended to complement, rather than supplant, standards employed by other regulators or external reviewers, including the CALD Standards for Australian Law Schools.

The LACC acknowledged that this is intrusive and some burden on Law Schools so undertook that its reviews would not be conducted at less than 5 year intervals. Each Admitting Authority is, of course, free to adopt other mechanisms for more frequent monitoring of law courses and for approving significant course changes.14 All of these requirements has meant that the TCB has had to work hard and carefully to implement its courses to formulate them for its graduates to be admitted to practise by the Queensland Supreme Court in the main, but also the other Australian Admitting Authorities.

10 Chief Justice Robert French AC ‘Legal Education in Australia – A Never Ending Story,’ above, 21. 11 LACC Accreditation Standards Paper, Introduction, above, 1-2. 12 TEQSA, Higher Education Standards Framework (Threshold Standards) 2015, Part A, item 3.1, para 5. 13 LACC Accreditation Standards Paper, above, 1-2. 14 LACC Accreditation Standards Paper, above, 1-2.


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Events are still developing and in mid-2016 the LACC, established by the Council of Chief Justices, issued a draft paper on the future proposals. This paper will almost certainly become the basis on which Australian Law Schools must focus their law courses (LACC Accreditation Standards Paper).15 5.3.1 New UQ Student Strategy 2016 To the many changes required by the LACC and the Australian Admitting Authorities that the Law School has to deal with are added the new Uuniversity changes and especially the recent UQ Student Strategy 2016-2020. This Student Strategywas the result of major consultations with UQ staff over several years and publication of green and white papers. On 19 July 2016 the UQ Vice Chancellor and President, Professor Peter Hoj, announced a five year program which he stated would be ‘at the forefront of a learning revolution’.16 His announcement included a summary of the purposes of the program:

The program is designed to deliver innovations and new initiatives in graduate employability, student facilities as well as integrated digital learning techniques, more flexible study options, and broader support for students and graduates including those who wish to start their own businesses.17

There are four major planks to the new strategy, which are enhanced programs and support for employability of graduates, more flexible and new course study options, more student consultation and mentoring and further development of the campus.18 It remains to be seen what changes the new Student Strategy will mean for the Law School, but one new aspect will be that law students who have found it difficult to find suitable accommodation may be able to live at the new 1300 bed student precinct that will be built on the expanded UQ campus in St Lucia. This proposed further expansion of the campus, it should be mentioned, is much to the chagrin of the nearby St Lucia residents whose peaceful enjoyment of their suburb will be detrimentally affected. 5.4 Practical Legal Training By the law schools meeting the requirements of the Priestly 11 they satisfy the academic requirements of lawyers seeking admission. The tension between the academic requirements and the practical training needs of practitioners continues of course and this the latter’s needs are met by the Practical Legal Training (PLT) bodies whose courses law graduates are required to complete for admission. It should be noted that even after admission as a Legal Practitioner both the Bar Association19 and the Queensland Law

15 Law Admissions Consultative Committee, Accreditation Standards for Australian Law Courses, AUSTRALIA/SDC/238832380.09. 16 UQ web site https://www.uq.edu.au/news/article2016/07/uq-poised-make; and www.student-strategy.uq.edu.au for the Strategy paper. 17 UQ web site, Student Strategy, above. 18 UQ web site, Student Strategy, above. 19 See Qld Bar Association web site https://www.qldbar.asn.au/#/practising-certificate.

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Society20 have further requirements under the Legal Profession Act 2007 (Qld) to be met before practitioners are granted a Practising Certificate as a barrister or as a solicitor respectively. Before about 1970 the PLT requirements had been met by law trainees serving as Articled Clerks or by the Barristers and Solicitors Admission Boards giving courses and setting examinations. As the number of law students increased, however, the ability of law students to secure articles decreased and the PLT courses eventually replaced Articles of Legal Clerkship and Barrister Board examinations in the various jurisdictions. In 1992 the LACC developed Uniform Admission Rules, which were designed for the guidance of the Boards and other Admitting Authorities in each jurisdiction. 21 The background to the current PLT system is that by February 1993, the various systems for acquiring practical legal training that had developed in different jurisdictions led the Standing Committee of Attorneys-General (SCAG) to ask the Law Council of Australia to forge a national agreement among the various jurisdictions as to the requisite elements of practical legal training. The Law Council reached agreement on general heads of practical legal training, but could not agree on whether the necessary training should occur before or after admission. Twelve broad heads were endorsed, which actually mirrored the contemporary offerings of the various existing PLT courses.22 In February 1994, the LACC released a proposal for uniform PLT requirements, which drew upon the work that had been done by a Working Group established by the Law Council of Australia. Apart from prescribing areas of practice for PLT courses, the Committee also recommended, in lieu of PLT, a minimum requirement of two years’ practical experience of which at least one year must be gained after admission. The Committee provided for 12 practice topics, sometimes referred to as the ‘Priestley 12’.23 All of the law schools struggled with these numerous changes to accommodate the requirements for admission. During the decade under consideration in this chapter, from 2007 to 2016, the TCB grappled with the tension between offering what might be considered a more theoretical curriculum and one which was able to combine both deep theoretical learning and sufficient grounding in professional skills and attributes. When Professor Carney became Head on 30 January 2012 he changed the emphasise back to the importance of the TCB being a ‘professional’ law school and that focus has continued under Professor Derrington. TCB has retained its emphasis on thorough and deep learning in the core Priestley 11 areas and currently encourages the involvement of the judiciary and the legal profession in all aspects of the curriculum. Whilst it is true that only slightly more than one half of Australian law graduates are working in legal practice after about 10 years from graduation, a recent survey of TCB students revealed that the

20 See QLS web site http://www.qls.com.au/For_the_profession/Your_legal_career/Practising_certificates. 21 LACC web site, above. 22 LACC web site, above. 23Monahan, Geoff; Lliffe, Bronwyne ‘Competency-Based Education And Training For Law Students’ [2001] UTSLawRw 14; (2001) 3 University of Technology Sydney Law Review 181.


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overwhelming majority enter law school with the intention to practise and nearly all TCB graduates wish to be admitted and gain some experience of practice even if later they branch out into other areas. At TCB the Priestley 11 subjects are currently compulsory for the LLB degree. It is desirable, therefore, to record the courses and degrees offered by the TCB towards the end of 2016 to preserve a snapshot of the situation for future historians. 5.5 Current Legal Education Courses 5.5.1 Introduction During 2014-2015 the Law School courses being offered were revised and significant changes made to emphasise the focus on the legal profession as well as post-graduate academic skills. After considerable consultation, both internally and externally, an updated LLB (Hons) curriculum to commence from 2017 was approved by the Academic Board of UQ and has been submitted to the Law Practice Admissions Board (LPAB) for the approval of the Board and the Chief Justice.24 5.5.2 LLB and Dual Degrees The courses offered at the TCB during 2016 are co-extensive with the Priestley 11 in addition to offering numerous elective courses. The students have a choice of the ‘straight’ LLB or they may combine it with a degree in Arts, Commerce, Business, Business Management, Science, or Economics. Degree courses done in other disciplines or from other universities are assessed on their merits and credit given towards an LLB as may be appropriate. The dual degrees are the norm for the undergraduates with about 80% or so taking dual degrees.25 From the first year entries in 2015 all LLBs will be graduating with Honours. Students wishing to study the new LLB (Hons) or one of the dual degree options must meet the entry requirements. From January 2015, those requirements were a pass in senior English and a final achievement at school of an OP1/rank 99/ATAR 99.00.26All entries are controlled through applications to the Queensland Tertiary Admissions Centre (QTAC). See under for discussion of the 2016 new teaching method. Only students with excellent academic results, therefore, now manage to gain entry into the TCB law degree course. 5.5.3 Honours The TCB approach to the requirements for the award of honours has varied over its 80 years of teaching. In the first cohort, those not taking honours graduated in 1936 but the two students taking honours (Sir Harry Gibbs and Mr Tom Matthews) had to stay enrolled into the following year when they were both awarded First Class Honours. (See Appendix I).Over the years the argument that the LLB was already long enough prevailed and so the requirement for an extra year was abolished and honours were awarded on a

24 LACC web site, above. 25 Professor Fiona Rohde to author, email 4.8.16. 26 UQ web site http://www.law.uq.edu.au/bachelor-of-laws, ‘Bachelor of Laws (Honours) Program.’

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student’s final Grade Point Average (GPA)27 in various grades or classes. (Class I: 6.000 and above, Class IIA: 5.500-5.999, Class IIB: 5.000-5.499). A student who gained the degree with results below Class IIB was awarded a Pass degree. As part of the Australian Qualities Framework (AQF) the LLB (Graduate Entry) was changed to the LLB (Hons) from 2015 and CAPP approved the discontinuation of the LLB (Hons) from Semester 1, 2017. Approval was based on declining enrolment numbers; the fact that the Queensland Tertiary Academic Centre (QTAC) conversion of post-graduate (PG) qualifications to Overall Position (OP) meant that the graduate cohort included students with an academic achievement level not comparable to the incoming undergraduate cohort and the fact that the program required students to undertake four substantive law courses in their first semester without prior knowledge of any law or legal technique.28 So all those who entered the LLB in 2015 and 2016 will come under the new Honours regime whereby all those who pass the degree course will be awarded Honours of one class or another. They will, however, be taught under the current model of lectures followed by tutorials. From the beginning of 2017 the new LLB students will come under the new Teaching Method, see Section 5.5.7 under. However, for them this same Honours system will prevail and they will be awarded honours of one class or another based on their final GPA. (Class I 6.2 and above; Class IIA, 5.650-6.199, Class IIB, 5.00-5.649, Class IIIA, 4.00-4.99, Class IIIB, <4.00.) As already mentioned, the change to the system of honours is a consequence of the national implementation and adoption of the AQF levels, the criteria for which are an indication of the relative complexity and/or depth of achievement and the autonomy required to demonstrate that achievement. AQF level 1 has the lowest complexity and AQF level 10 has the highest complexity. TCB determined that it would not offer a law degree that was below level 8. A level 8 qualification provides for graduates to have advanced knowledge and skills for professional/highly skilled work and/or further learning. For a sector that has been used to a direct correlation between an award of honours and academic excellence, the move to a universal award of honours was a significant change. Under this system an honours degree is defined by reference to its content, and academic excellence is judged by the class of honours awarded.29 5.5.4 Juris Doctor Degree (JD) The Juris Doctor law degree (JD), a graduate entry legal qualification leading to admission to practise, commenced in 1999 in the Law School under the name Master of Legal Science and in April 2000 the name was changed to Juris Doctor. In 2007 it was decided to phase it out and the Law School received approval in March 2007 to make that year the last year of enrolments into the JD program. A formal request to discontinue the program was considered by UQ Committee for Academic Programs Policy (CAPP) in

27 UQ web site http://www.law.uq.edu.au/bachelor-of-laws, ‘Bachelor of Laws (Honours) Program.’ 28 Email from Sharmaine Wells, TCB staff, to author on 18.8.16, above. 29 UQ web site, above.

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July 2008 and approved by the Academic Board in September 2008 and 2008 was the last year of JD enrolments and the enrolled students went on to finish their degrees.30 The phasing out of the JD was mainly because the Bachelor of Laws (Graduate Entry) degree, which had been previously offered until 2002 met the need. So the Law School applied in September 2010 to re-establish the LLB (Graduate Entry)31 but, as mentioned above, this has now been discontinued and rolled into the LLB (Hons) program. 5.5.5 Masters Degrees by Coursework At the Masters level the Master of Laws (LLM) is growing in numbers slowly from a low base. It was formerly available by course work or by research thesis but in 2003 when the M.Phil commenced the LLM became restricted to a course work degree. Whilst the LLM is a broad degree it also enables its scholars to specialise in the many areas in which the School has research expertise including, corporate and commercial law, intellectual property and technology law, public international and comparative law, international trade and maritime law, litigation and alternative dispute resolution, public sector law, and resources, mining and environment law.32

The Master of International Commercial Law (MICL) was introduced from 2015. The MICL is designed for both law and non-law graduates who are looking to consolidate their understanding of the legal and regulatory frameworks, either nationally or internationally, which impact upon their current work. The program is particularly relevant to modern international commercial practice including in the areas of mining and resources law, international trade law and intellectual property. Non-law graduates must have relevant work experience to be eligible for entry to the program. This program fills, to some extent, the gap left by the discontinuation of the Master of Applied Law program which did not survive the review of the suite of programs offered by the School following the implementation of the Australian Quality Framework.33

5.5.6 Research Higher Degrees The Master of Philosophy (M.Phil) is administered as one of the Research Higher Degree (RHD) courses of which the others are the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D), a thesis of some 80,000 words, and a Doctor of Laws (LLD). The PhD has been offered by the TCB since not long after its establishment and its first graduate was Mr Bruce McPherson, then a lecturer in the School, who later went to the Bar and then the Bench. The late Hon Justice B.H. McPherson CBE, became one of the most outstanding scholars on the Australian scholarly scene.34

30 Email from Sharmaine Wells, TCB staff, to author of 18.8.16. Particular acknowledgement is made of the significant assistance provided by Sharmaine Wells for information on the current courses at the Law School. 31 Email from Sharmaine Wells, TCB staff, to author of 18.8.16, above. 32 UQ web site, above. 33 UQ web site, above. 34 Queensland Supreme Court library web site http://www.sclqld.org.au/judicial-papers/judicial-profiles/profiles/bmcpherson.


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The LLD is a degree of long antiquity in England and usually awarded for outstanding scholarship over a long time. It has only rarely been awarded by UQ and is the highest academic award in law. The LLD is designed to give formal public recognition to legal scholars who have made outstanding contributions to law. In practice the LLD is awarded only to candidates whose contributions to the field of knowledge are extensive and widely acclaimed in Australia and overseas.35 The TCB has only awarded six LLDs to date on merit although UQ has awarded a large number of honorary LLDs (Honoris causa). The names of the LLD recipients are included with names of all TCB law degree recipients in Appendix I (to the end of 2015). 5.5.7 New Teaching Method from 2017 A new teaching method for the TCB has been planned to commence from early 2017 commencing with new LLB 2017 students. Professor Derrington said about it on 27 November 2015 at the opening event for the TCB Forgan Smith building premises refurbishment.

‘As part of the school restructure, we are deliberately reducing our first-year intake to no more than 250 of the best and brightest students, and we are providing them with innovative programs, collaborative learning opportunities and excellent student-to-teacher ratios.’36

Professor Sarah Derrington Source: Law School Archives

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In line with that vision for the School, the first-year intake of LLB (Hons) students in 2016 stabilised at approximately 240. Such a number has enabled the School to plan for a more interactive and engaging learning experience for students than has been possible in the traditional lecture/tutorial model of university teaching. Instead of lectures to great numbers of students followed by tutorials, students commencing their law studies in 2017 will be taught in groups of 40 in a seminar format. In this mode, it is envisaged that students will have the opportunity to enjoy an intellectual dialogue with their colleagues and the academic staff which will foster deeper learning and greater understanding of both the theoretical underpinnings of the discipline and of their application to professional practice. 37 In short the Law School is moving from a large number lecture and smaller number tutorial model to one based on all small number seminars with more interactive teaching.38 This method will apply progressively as the 2017 cohort moves along through the Law School courses. It will also be implemented for students who commenced before 2017 as far as possible, largely in elective courses but also in some of the later year core courses. 5.6 Research Centres All of the research-intensive universities have a number of research centres devoted to research in particular areas in which there is a concentration of academic expertise. These arrangements take a variety of forms, some being more formal than others. Currently the TCB has two School Centres, constituted formally under the University’s policies regarding research centres and one, more simply administered, research Unit.39

5.6.1 Centre for Public International & Comparative Law (CPICL) The Centre for Public International & Comparative Law (CPICL)was established in 2003 and is dedicated to advanced research and collaborative links and scholarly exchanges with other disciplines within the University and with research organisations around the world. Support is provided by the members of the Centre for doctoral research and currently 15 PhD doctoral students work with the supervision of the Fellows of the Centre. Fellows and other Centre members also contribute to the graduate program by conducting courses in their research areas.40 5.6.2 Australian Centre for Private Law (ACPL) The Australian Centre for Private Law (ACPL)was established in 2012 to build on the expertise and enthusiasm of the large group of private law scholars who wished to contribute to the systematic study of the private law, both in Australia and internationally. In doing so, the research undertaken by the Fellows of the ACPL seeks to incrementally

37 UQ web site, above. 38 Professor Fiona Rohde to author, email 4.8.16. 39 UQ law web site http://dvbb.law.uq.edu.au/law.uq.edu.au/research-centres.html. 40 UQ law web site http://dvbb.law.uq.edu.au/law.uq.edu.au/research-centres.html.


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clarify and simplify the private law through their publications, courses and law reform proposals. 5.6.3 Marine and Shipping Law Unit (MASLU) The Marine and Shipping Law Unit (MASLU) was originally established as the Centre for Maritime Law (CML) in 1999 with the author as the Executive Director and Dr Sarah Derrington as the other Director. It was renamed and simplified in its structure in 2005 to become the Marine and Shipping Law Unit (MASLU) and it is a community of scholars within the Law School. MASLU aims to achieve international recognition for scholarship, research and consultative skills in maritime law, international law of the sea, and related areas. It promotes teaching and research in all aspects of maritime law and the law of the sea. It provides the legal community, law students, and the marine and shipping industries with detailed information and specialist expertise relating to developments in, and the application of, maritime law. MASLU's roles also includes collaborating with other marine centres on multi-disciplinary projects and liaising with legal and marine scholars from around the world.41 5.7 Law School Programs 5.7.1 Pro Bono Centre The principal purpose of the UQ Law School Pro Bono Centre (PB Centre)42 is to create diverse and meaningful opportunities for students to participate in the delivery of pro bono legal services. It is the only resource of its type in an Australian law school. Its mission is to be a nationally recognised leader in the development, promotion and provision of student pro bono legal services. It aims to encourage students to understand the value and importance of access to justice and to graduate from Law School with a lifelong professional commitment to pro bono legal service.43

The activities of the Centre are conducted under the direction of the Centre Director Monica Taylor and an Advisory Board. The Centre’s Patron is the Honourable Justice Peter Applegarth, Justice of the Supreme Court of Queensland. The Chair of the Centre’s Advisory Board is UQ Adjunct Professor and Clayton Utz Partner, Randal Dennings. It also has a Student Advisory Panel and its own Constitution. The Director and the Advisory Board report to the Dean of the Law School.44

The PB Centre coordinates a suite of pro bono activities for law students to undertake alongside, and in addition to, their formal legal studies. These activities include law reform and policy research through the Manning St Project, a partnership between the Caxton Legal Centre in Brisbane and the PB Centre.45

41 UQ law web site http://dvbb.law.uq.edu.au/law.uq.edu.au/research-centres.html. 42 ‘Pro bono’ comes from the Latin phrase ‘pro bono publico’ which means “or the public good. In the legal context it generally means the provision of legal services on a free or significantly reduced fee basis. 43 UQ Law School Pro Bono web site https://law.uq.edu.au/pro-bono. 44 UQ Law School Pro Bono web site, above. 45 Written comments from Monica Taylor to author on 18.8.16

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At time of writing (Semester 2 of 2016) three public interest research projects are being conducted through the Manning Street Project. The projects include empirical research on domestic violence hearings in the Magistrates Courts with the Domestic Violence Action Centre in Ipswich, an environmental law reform project with the Environmental Defenders Office (Qld) and a health justice partnerships project with the Caxton Legal Centre. The Centre’s High Schools Program delivers a suite of community legal education visits to high schools throughout the greater Brisbane region. In these the TCB law students make a range of legal presentations to secondary students on topics which include domestic and family violence law, and asylum and refugee law.46

In August 2016 the University of Queensland, through the Law School and the Pro Bono Centre, executed an MOU with the PNG Supreme and National Courts of Justice for the provision of TCB students for research in PNG on nominated projects, and the first request from PNG for pro bono legal research assistance is in hand.47

5.7.2 Clinical Legal Education

The Law School runs legal clinics every semester under the auspices of the UQ Pro Bono Centre. Each clinic provides students with work experience in a legal setting and if properly done this results in academic credit (LAWS5180) towards the student’s law degree. Legal clinics are currently run out of the Queensland Public Interest Law Clearing House (QPILCH), Caxton Legal Centre, the Prisoners' Legal Service, the Refugee and Immigration Legal Service (RAILS), Queensland Advocacy Inc. (QAI), the Environmental Defenders Office (EDO) and Tenants Queensland. In their clinical placement, law students spend one day per week during semester undertaking legal work under the close supervision of experienced lawyers.48

Students must apply for a place in the Clinical Legal Education Program and, as the number for each is small, there is considerable competition to gain a place. In Semester 2 2016 programs were offered in the Prison Law Clinic, Homeless Persons’ Legal Clinic, Public Interest Research, Mental Health Law Clinic, Consumer Law Advice Clinic, Environmental Law Clinic, Disability Law Clinic, Refugees and Immigration Law Clinic, Health Advocacy Legal Clinic and the Tenancy Law Clinic.49

5.7.3 Continuing Professional Development The Law School also offers a series of professional legal courses through its Continuing Professional Development (CPD) program. The courses have been selected from the School’s Master of Laws programs that are suitable for lawyers with an interest in contemporary legal issues or who wish to gain expertise in particular areas to advance

46 Email from Monica Taylor, Director, to author dated 13.7.16. 47 Written comments from Monica Taylor to author on 18.8.16 48 UQ web site http://www.law.uq.edu.au/clinical-legal-education-prog. 49 UQ web site http://www.law.uq.edu.au/clinical-legal-education-prog.

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their careers. Most courses are run intensively to meet the needs of those in practice, usually over a four day period but with some offered on a semester-long basis.50

Lawyers may take these courses as part of their LLM by course work or other similar post-graduate degree, but for those who do not wish to do that then they may enrol in the courses in the CPD program in one of two ways:

1. Non-award basis – participants must meet the course pre-requisites and sit the assessment but later they may wish to credit the course towards a relevant degree;

2. CPD basis – is open to anyone and they attend the course to learn. No assessment.

For these Masters degree/CPD courses, the University rules governing enrolment, course fees and withdrawal policies apply to students enrolled in a UQ degree program or on a non-award basis and these students are required to undertake course assessment. There is no assessment for CPD enrolments but merely a requirement to attend and most CPD Law courses are endorsed for CPD points with the Queensland Bar Association and Queensland Law Society.51

5.8 Exchange with Overseas Law Schools The UQ has agreements for student exchange with numerous overseas universities and students may undertake courses there which count towards their degree. This allows the students to pursue legal, cultural, language and other skills as part of their studies. In mid-2016 UQ was offering student exchange programs for Semester 1 2017 with universities in some 40 overseas countries in various disciplines of which the most universities available were in the USA and UK, then Canada and then many in such countries as Germany, Japan and China.52 Where law students are doing double degrees that is a very wide choice but even in the law degree offerings alone the choices are still amongst 19 overseas countries with most universities in UK (8), Canada (5) and the USA (3).53A number of law schools from India are expected to join the list in the near future. In most cases the courses are conducted in English but where students are fluent in a foreign language that increases the number of law programs available to them.54 5.9 Practitioners-in-Residence One of the initiatives of Professors Carney and Derrington as Heads of School was the introduction of the scheme for a legal practitioner from the Bench, Bar or Solicitor’s Branch to be in an office in the law school for a working week to be available to talk to classes and meet with staff and students.

The TCB has long valued its close relations with the judiciary and the profession and the aim of the Practitioner-in-Residence program is to provide an opportunity for accomplished legal practitioners to share their insights and expertise with members of the

50 UQ web site http://www.law.uq.edu.au/cpd-outline. 51 UQ web site http://www.law.uq.edu.au/cpd-outline. 52 UQ web site http://www.uq.edu.au/uqabroad/docs/Places_Available_at_Exchange_Partners.pdf 53 UQ web site http://www.uq.edu.au/uqabroad/choose-a-host-university.html#allregions-law-anygrad-alllanguages. 54 UQ web site, above.


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law school community. As well as interacting with students, staff and alumni in a variety of settings they have the opportunity to reflect on the practice of law generally, refresh their own personal perspectives, discuss issues relevant to both academia and practice, link practice with research or take time to write articles.

In the period 2013-2015 they included Richard Douglas QC, Soraya Ryan QC, Prashanth Sabeshan (India), Bernard McCabe, Kathryn McMillan QC, Jonathan Fulcher, John McKenna QC and Walter Sofronoff QC (Queensland Solicitor General).55

5.10 Law School Intake Numbers University finances are usually under pressure and the 2007-2016 decade was no exception. This continual pressure seems to be part of the seemingly inexorable reduction in government funding for tertiary education and a shift towards university self-funding. This made it important that courses were profitable, which already was the case with overseas students as they paid a higher fee than Australian citizens but was not the case for the Law School undergraduate courses. UQ senior management was keen to keep up its undergraduate total numbers as it had embarked on emphasis of research over that of teaching and was in the course of constructing a significant number of new buildings and refurbishment of others, part of the funding for which came from the fees from large undergraduate numbers. Because a law degree was popular course for school leavers, the law school was required to take increasing numbers of undergraduates. In 2006 the number of first year LLBs was 280, in 2007 it was 372 and this rising trend continued until it reached a high of 407 first year LLBs. Vigorous protests against this were advanced and the first year numbers then started to fall and in 2012 when Professor Carney was Head it fell to 307. This first year numbers resulted in the total number of students in the Law School rising from 1,880 in 2006 to 2,267 in 2009 and it was 2,259 in 2012.56 The Heads of School, Professor Ross Grantham and then Professor Gerard Carney, both protested vigorously to the university administrative hierarchy because the Law School was not funded to cope with these increased numbers, but the university hierarchy increased them anyway. The effect of this was that the student to staff ratio in the Law School was the highest (worst) of any of the universities in the Australian GO8 group and one of the worst compared with law schools of similar standing overseas. It had a devastating effect on the Law School’s budget; as to which see shortly. No credit was given to the Law School staff who were struggling to teach to a high standard, to mark large numbers of examination papers and assessments and who, at the same time, had increased pressure placed on them to raise the number of their publications.

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Professor Carney as Head and Dean of the Law School resigned effective from 25 January 2013 in protest at lack of support from Vice Chancellor Professor Paul Greenfield and other UQ senior management. Following the Vice Chancellor’s Review of the Law School upon the commencement of Professor Derrington’s tenure from 1 July 2013, the new Vice Chancellor, Professor Peter Hoj, supported the view that the School’s numbers should be reduced. They have remained under 240 for first year LLB enrolments since 2014. 5.11 Finances At the start of this decade under review, 2007-2016,the finances of the TCB were so poor that it was the high income from the overseas students’ fees into the commerce and business degrees in the BEL Faculty that were supporting the undergraduate law students. The main problem was that the university administration’s allocation of funds for each full time equivalent (FTE) student for the LLB was even less than for an Arts student, which was one of the lowest in the University. This resulted in the TCB having one of the highest student to staff ratios in Australian universities and despite this small number of staff for the number of students the annual Law School budget was still in deficit. The matter was taken up by a sub-committee of the TCB Adjunct Professors whose research led to the production of a discussion paper in 2010 revealing these facts. Its chair, Hon Glen Williams AO QC, then President of the UQ Law Graduates Association, and its secretary, Mr Randal Dennings, partner at Clayton Utz, met with the Executive Dean of BEL and the University Vice-Chancellor in2011 but did not receive a sympathetic response. The Adjunct Professor’s issues paper, dated March 2010, made these points:

‘UQ Law School funding is at a crisis point and the Law School risks being unable to achieve its key goals and objectives.

The Law School is consistently at the lowest standard of academic resource availability compared to each of the other Go8 law schools, which is reflected in the critical areas of staff / student ratios and student class sizes. These serious resource restrictions are further exacerbated by inadequate and insufficient facilities for the teaching and research required.

The single cause of these concerns is the current University Funding Model. This model does not recognise the essential financial and budgetary allocations necessary for the Law School to maintain its current academic resource requirements. These are currently the lowest of all Go8 Law Schools and are forecast to continue to negatively impact on the Law School's ability to provide a minimum standard of quality legal education and professional standards consistent with the maintenance of the reputation of the Law School ….’57

57 Adjunct Professor’s paper‘The University of Queensland TC Beirne School of Law Business Case Regarding Proposed Changes to Current Funding Model: A Proposal of the TC Beirne school of Law Adjuncts Committee’ dated 2010; unpublished but copy held by author who was on the committee.


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At time of writing, the overall funding formula remains a difficulty for the Law School, but its financial circumstances are gradually improving. 5.12 Mooting and Competitions 5.12.1 Introduction Mooting has been regarded as an important aspect of any professional common law legal school since the Inns of Court moots in the 14th Century. Holdsworth emphasised the importance of discussion in the development of students in 1921:

‘It is the place which discussion should occupy in a legal curriculum that distinguishes a training in law from the training in other sciences. Reading, commonplacing58 and reporting may teach a … [student] the principles of the law: they will not teach … [the student] to be a practical lawyer. It was the recognition of this fact which was the strong point of the older system of legal education [of the Inns of Court]. It is the non-recognition of this fact which is the weak part of our modern system of public teaching and examinations in law. The destruction of the old system destroyed to a large extent that organized discussion which prepared students for actual practice. In our modern system it does not take the place which it once took, unless, as at Oxford and at one or two other places, the pupils are wiser than their teachers, and set up for themselves a moot club, which reproduces some of the advantages of that old system which the benchers of this period [ie the 19th Century] were too selfish to maintain.’59

Some of the earlier aspects about mooting in the TCB have been set out in Chapter 4, Section 4.11 ‘Mooting Successes’ and this section covers the decade 2007 to 2016. During this period mooting underwent major changes mainly due to the different importance placed on it and the consequent support or lack of it from the Heads of School. Being a professional law school the usual profile for mooting had been high but when this period opened in 2007 the Head of School had reduced support for it and mooting was at a low ebb. The credit given to the TCB academic staff for coaching had largely been removed and the credit towards the students for their mooting efforts had been removed except for Philip C Jessup International Law Mooting Competition and the International Maritime Law Arbitration Moot.

It is not practicable to cover the topics of mooring and legal skills competitions over all the last decade so the last few years will need to suffice. When Professor Carney became head on 31 January2012 he reinvigorated mooting and since Professor Derrington took over on 1 July 2013 it has positively shone.

5.12.2 Annual David Jackson Dinner An important initiative was the establishment of the annual David Jackson Dinner in 2012 by Professor Gerard Carney, then Head of School. The annual dinner and award event is named after the school’s esteemed alumnus and pre-eminent constitutional

58 Holdsworth uses the word ‘commonplacing’ to describe the practice as essentially preparing summaries of cases organised alphabetically, WS Holdsworth, ‘The Disappearance of the Educational System of the Inns of Court” (1921) 69 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 201, 220. 59 WS Holdsworth, above, at 221.


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barrister Mr David F. Jackson AM QC. The dinner provides an opportunity to celebrate the achievements of UQ law students who have represented the Law School in mooting and other competitions throughout the year.

Mr David Jackson AM QC speaking at the inaugural dinner in his honour in 2012

Source: TCB Mooting Dinner 2014 booklet, UQ web site Jackson graduated from UQ with a Bachelor of Arts in 1963 and Bachelor of Laws in 1964, during the latter part of which time he worked as Associate to The Hon. Sir Harry Gibbs, then a Judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland (see Chapter 3). Jackson was called to the Bar in 1964, appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1976 and was in private practice in Brisbane until 1985 when he was appointed a Judge of the Federal Court. He found the judicial role not to his liking and resigned in 1987 and moved from Brisbane to live and practise in Sydney. Jackson is regarded as one of the nation’s most distinguished barristers with his principal areas of practice in general appellate and constitutional court matters and in arbitrations and mediations. In Sydney he was Head of Chambers at Seven Wentworth from 2002 to 2014 and he currently leads New Chambers which was launched on 1 October 2014. Mr Jackson has conducted a number of inquiries and arbitrations and has appeared in hundreds of matters in the High Court of Australia, and other courts, in both their original and appellate jurisdictions. He is a valued member of the TCB alumni.60 Dr Peter Billings, Director of Mooting 2012-2015, wrote for the 2014 David Jackson dinner program:

‘In 2014 the Law School entered eleven moot competitions and six legal skills competitions drawing in, and upon, more law students than ever. Our entries included the inaugural Australian and New Zealand Air Law Moot Competition, the Castan Centre Human Rights Moot Competition, the inaugural Voiceless Australian-New Zealand Moot on Animal Law, and the first Australian ‘NOOT’ –

60 David Jackson AM QC web site http://www.newchambers.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Jackson-QC-CV-update-May-2016.pdf.


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Negotiating Outcomes On Time competition - organised by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT). …

Four mooting team titles (over three moots) were secured: Australian Champions and World Champions in the Philip C Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition; Administrative Appeal Tribunal ‘NOOT’ Champions and the AAT National Mooting Competition Champions. Other notable successes in 2014 included; Emily Chalk winning Best Speaker in both the Australian and World Championship Finals of the Philip C Jessup Competition, the Jessup team’s Award for Best Overall Applicant and the Richard R. Baxter Award for the best Applicant Memorial in the Philip C Jessup Competition, Washington D.C. Also Nathan Lindsay winning Best Speaker in the Grand Final of the National AAT Mooting Competition.’61

A the 2015 Jackson dinner, again held at the Women’s College, Peter Billings, by then an Associate Professor, wrote that the following teams had competed in moots and competitions in that year:

Philip C Jessup International Law Moot Sixth International Air Law Moot The Willem C Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot The 2nd Administrative Appeals Tribunal Negotiation Competition The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Moot The International Maritime Law Arbitration Moot Australian Red Cross International Humanitarian Law Moot (ALSA) King & Wood Mallesons Championship Moot (ALSA) Negotiation Competition (ALSA) Client Interviewing Competition (ALSA) Witness Examination Competition (ALSA) Paper Presentation Competition (ALSA) The Shine Lawyers Tort Moot The National Administrative Appeals Tribunal Moot The Hon. Michael Kirby Contract Law Moot Sir Harry Gibbs Constitutional Law Moot Australia/New Zealand Intervarsity Moot on Animal Law Castan Centre Human Rights Law Moot Australia and New Zealand Air Law Moot

The Team Awards for 2015 were: Sixth International Air Law Moot Court Competition (Beijing): Overall Winners, Best overall oral submission scores as applicant, Best overall oral submission scores as respondent Sir Harry Gibbs Constitutional Law Moot: Winners of Best Written Memorandum

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The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Moot: Overall runners-up. Best written submissions The Willem C Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot: Awarded Best Claimant Memorandum The International Maritime Law Arbitration Moot (IMLAM): David Martin Clark Trophy for the Highest Ranked Team in General Rounds.’62

5.12.4 Jessup Moots The Jessup Moot competition in international law is one of the most prestigious in the world. The annual competition attracts entries from well over 600 university teams in over 80 different countries. National competitions are held in each country and the winning teams travel to Washington DC, USA to compete against each other for the finals. In April 2005, the Law School’s team won the Australian competition and went on to be crowned international World Champions (see text and photo in Chapter 4). The TCB Jessup Teams since the 2005 win all performed strongly and the 2014 Jessup Team repeated the 2005 success and won the World Competition in Washington DC (pictured below).

The UQ Jessup World Championship Moot Team 2014 L to R: Professor Anthony Cassimatis (coach), Emily Chalk, Lisa Lee, Camille Boileau, Hugo Clark–Ryan, Abigael Mawby and Catherine Drummond (coach).

Source: UQ web site

62 Associate Professor Peter Billings, 2015 dinner Program, UQ web site. During 2016 the high level of mooting activity continued but most of the results were too late for inclusion.


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5.12.5 International Maritime Arbitration Moot The International Maritime Arbitration Moot (IMLAM) was the creation of Dr Sarah Derrington, then a Director of the Centre for Maritime Law at UQ. The first moot was held at UQ in 2000 with 8 teams participating. Since then it has grown and expanded. In 2007 Dr Kate Lewins of Murdoch University took over as its Director and it has continued to expand and in 2016 it fielded 26 university teams from around the world.

The moot is a competition open to any students enrolled in a law degree (either undergraduate or postgraduate) who have not been admitted to practice. The moot problem always involves a dispute relating to commercial maritime law and the moots are held before arbitral tribunals and conducted pursuant to the London Maritime Arbitration Association (LMAA) or other recognised rules. The venue for the competition changes every year and generally rotates among Australia, South East Asia and Europe. The moot is strongly supported by the maritime industry and maritime law firms. An enjoyable social program accompanies the competition to enable students to forge contacts with students from other law schools and meet with senior members of the maritime legal profession and industry.63

The UQ Law School has done well in the IMLAM moots over the years since it began in 2000 having achieved many wins and numerous accreditations. The 2016 IMLAM moot was held at Exeter University, England and the Law School team progressed to the semi-finals where they were beaten by Sydney Law School in a split decision by the judges. The Sydney team went on to win the overall competition and the UQ Team finished as the Highest Ranked Team in the General Rounds and with two students, Keilin Anderson and Dominic Fawcett, being adjudged the Best Oralists in the General Rounds.

63 Murdoch Uni web site http://www.murdoch.edu.au/School-of-Law/Mooting/International-Maritime-Law-Arbitration-Moot/.


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The UQ International Maritime Arbitration Law Moot Team 2016 L to R: Professor Sarah Derrington (coach), Keilin Anderson, Jaamae Hafeez-Baig, Dominic Fawcett, Amina Karcic.

Source: Professor Sarah Derrington; UQ Website

5.12.6 Other Moots There are a number of internal mooting competitions run by University of Queensland Law Students Society (UQLS) and many of them see skilful and hard fought mooting battles. It is the external competitions, however, that attract most attention. In 2015 the Law School and UQLS supported 19 teams, as set out above.64 Mooting is one of the Law School’s activities that attracts much enthusiasm from the student cohort and Sir William Holdsworth (see quote above at p.92) would have been proud of them keeping up these common law skills.

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UQ’s 2015 International Maritime Law Arbitration Moot and 2015 Willem C Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot teams with UQ Adjunct Professors at

the 2015 David Jackson Mooting Dinner L to R: back row – James Rigby, Zackary George, Kane Bennett, Finian Cullity, Leo Rees-Murphy. Seated – Jessica Duncan, Dr Michael White QC, The Hon. Dr Margaret White AO, The Hon. Dr Glen Williams AO QC, Georgia Williams

Source: UQ web site

One of the Moots deserving special mention is the Annual Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot which was offered to TCB students for many years under the guidance of Professor Gabriel Moens, who left the T C Beirne School of Law for other schools in 2003. On his return to the T C Beirne School of Law as an Emeritus Professor in 2015, the Vis Moot became re-invigorated and in 2015 it did well by winning an Honourable Mention for the Memorandum for the Respondent. In 2016 the UQ team proceeded to the elimination rounds (top 64 teams out of a total of 311) and was awarded an Honourable Mention for the Memorandum for the Claimant and an Honourable Mention for the Memorandum for the Respondent. The 2015 and 2016 Memorandums for the Respondent have since been published in the International Trade and Business Law Review, an international journal dedicated to commercial and arbitration law.65

65 Email Emeritus Professor Moens to author on 13.7.16. Professor Moens is a Chartered Arbitrator and Deputy Secretary General and editor of the Journal of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (ACICA).


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Over the three years from 2012 to mid-2016 the Law School won these following overall team moot titles:

• Philip C Jessup International Law Moot Competition, 2012 (Australian Champions) and 2014 (Australian and World Champions);

• International Maritime Law Arbitration Moot Competition, 2012 and 2013; • Shine Lawyers Torts Moot Competition, 2012; • National Administrative Appeals Tribunal Moot Competition, 2012 and 2014; • Sir Harry Gibbs Constitutional Law Moot, 2013; • Leiden Sarin International Air Law Moot Competition, 2015 • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Moot Competition, 2016.66

5.12.15 Legal Skills Competitions As well as in mooting the TCB now encourages its students to enter legal skills competitions. In 2015 Associate Professor Billings reported that the Law School had entered teams in four competitions in that year:

The Administrative Appeals Tribunal Negotiation Competition Negotiation Competition (ALSA) Client Interviewing (ALSA) Witness Examination (ALSA)67

Since first entering them in 2012, students of the Law School have had their successes in the legal skills competitions. They won the Client Interviewing at the Australian Law Students Law Association (ALSA) in 2013 and the inaugural Administrative Appeals Tribunal Negotiation (NOOT) Competition in 2014 along with several Grand Final appearances in others. 5.13 Law Teaching Excellence Excellence in research is widely encouraged and recognised at UQ and in more recent years teaching excellence has also been the recipient of increasing emphasis and a number of accolades. It is not possible to set out the lengthy list of excellent Law School teachers over the past 80 years so some more recent ones will have to suffice as an illustration.68 Outstanding university teachers have been formally recognised at the UQ since the first awards on a university-wide basis were made in 1988. Not many are made each year across the University and the Law School has done as well as any School. Those who have received Teaching Excellence Awards, listed with their titles at the time, were:

1992 Associate Professor Gabriel Moens 1996 Ms Nadja Spegel 2004 Dr Nickolas James 2006 Dr Sarah Derrington

66 Associate Professor Peter Billings, 2014 David Jackson Dinner Program, UQ web site, as subsequently amended by him.. 67 Peter Billings, 2015 dinner Program, UQ web site. 68 Sharmaine Wells kindly emailed UQ records to author on 15.8.16. See UQ web site http://www.uq.edu.au/teaching-learning/previous-uq-excellence-in-teaching-and-learning-awards-winners.

http://www.uq.edu.au/teaching-learning/previous-uq-excellence-in-teaching-and-learning-awards-winners


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2008 Dr Craig Forrest, Dr Clare Cappa 2009 Associate Professor Nicholas Aroney, Mrs Margaret Stephenson 2014 Associate Professor Nicholas Cassimatis 2015 Mr Russell Hinchy, Ms Karen Fairweather, Associate Professor Peter

Billings, Associate Professor Jonathan Crow, Associate Professor Ann Black, and Mr Tim Thomas for excellence in tutorials.69

In 2011 the Asylum and Refugee Law Project team members (ARLP) were the recipients of the UQ Vice-Chancellors Equity and Diversity Award, presented at the Vice Chancellor’s Awards evening, Under the mentoring of Project Supervisor Dr Peter Billings law students teach groups of high school students across south-east Queensland about principles of international refugee law, Australia’s reception of asylum seekers and the issues around forced migration in the Asia-Pacific region.70 In 2013 an award for Teaching and Learning Programs that Enhance Learning was made to the Law School Pro Bono Centre, of which the principals were Dr Paul O’Shea, Dr Heather Douglas, Dr Tamara Walsh, Dr Peter Billings and Mrs Monica Taylor, the Director. 5.14 Refurbishment of the Forgan Smith Building Premises 5.14.1 Refurbishment Works The University of Queensland was in its George Street premises in the city in Old Government House, which the Queensland University of Technology now occupies, from its establishment in 1910 until it moved to St Lucia over several years after it regained occupation from the Army in 1946; see Chapters 1 and 2. The Law School had been established in 1936 in the George St premises until it moved to St Lucia to the western wing of the Main Building (re-named the Forgan Smith building in 1967) in 1949, as mentioned in Chapter 4. The initial design and use had the Arts Faculty in the eastern wing and the university administration in the middle tower, which tower area is now part of the re-named Arts Faculty and which will be shared with the Law School after the refurbishment of the Forgan Smith building. The university administration has long since moved from the tower to where it now occupies the Chancellery and JD Story buildings.

As set out more fully in Chapters 1 and 2, the Forgan Smith building was designed as the visual centre piece of the University and it still has a prestigious position. Construction on it began in 1938 and was interrupted in 1942 by World War II (1939-1945), when the building was requisitioned by the Australian Army for its main Australian operational headquarters. The building was taken back from the Army in 1946 and, after completion, was officially opened in 1949, see Chapter 2 for more detail on the war. Australia has few 1930s-era buildings of its equal, and there are none at any other Australian university.

The buildings around the Law school remind all students of the great thinkers and others of the past. The carvings around the Great Court side the building include nine sections of

69 UQ Law web site http://www.uq.edu.au/teaching-learning/2014-winners-awards-for-teaching-excellence. 70 Associate Professor Peter Billings’ emailed material to author on 16.6.16.


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sculptured friezes along its parapet depicting secondary industries significant in Queensland during the 1930s and subsequently.71 The entrances to the various buildings depict eminent persons in those disciplines. The front central entrance to the Forgan Smith building under the tower has carved into it the words ‘Great is truth and mighty above all things’ which is taken from the court of Darius III of Persia at the time of Jewish captivity in the third century BC.72

The Arts and Law entrances have low-relief statues on either side accompanied by the names of the great thinkers and teachers from western intellectual traditions. Bas relief figures guard the law entrance with Emperor Justinian I on the right and Plato on the left. The latin text carved over the law entrance comes from the Institutes of Justinian, which may be translated as ‘These are the precepts of law: to live honourably, to do no harm to anyone, and give every man his due”.73 Higher up over the Law entrance carved into the stone are the names of the great legal philosophers and jurists Bacon, Socrates, Blackstone, Aristotle, Hobbes and Coke.74

Two major improvements to the Law Library have been set out in Chapter 4 and in the last decade there had been preliminary proposals to refurbish the TCB premises or to move to a separate larger building. None of these plans came to fruition until, in early 2015, a complete refurbishment of the western (law) wing of Forgan Smith was decided on.

The launch of the refurbishment program was held in the Forgan Smith on 27 November 2015. One feature of the launch was to have some of the TCB alumni draw on a wall of the premises to mark the beginning of a new chapter in the building. The event was a symbolic farewell to the walls that contained the hopes and dreams of about 10,000 law students and numerous staff over the past 66 years in those premises (1949-2015).

The refurbishment of the building began in January 2015 and at time of writing (mid-2016) it is still in progress. It is planned to have the refurbished premises available for use for the commencement of teaching in Semester 1 2017. The plans include provision for the plaques and other items illustrating the heritage of the Law School. At the launch of the refurbishment on 27 January 2015 the UQ Vice-Chancellor and President, Professor Peter Høj, noted that:

‘[T]he 12-month refurbishment would be an exciting rejuvenation of the historic building to bring it into line with the world’s best contemporary education

71 See Clive Moore The Forgan Smith: History of a Building and its People at the University of Queensland, 2010, p.49; Brian D. Pascoe A Guide to the Great Court, 1992, produced by UQ Media and Information Services. 72 Clive Moore, above, p.49. For its origins see Apocrypha: 1 Esdras Chapter 4; online website Apocrypha: 1 Esdras Chapter 4. 73 Clive Moore, above, p.49. See Institute of Justinian, Book I, Maxim ‘Of Persons’ No. 3. Also translated as: ‘3. The maxims of law are these: to live honestly, to hurt no one, to give every one his due.’ Online ahttp://classes.maxwell.syr.edu/His381/InstitutesofJustinian.htm.t. 74 Author’s observation on 5.8.16. More generally also see John W East No Mean Plans: Designing the Great Court at the University of Queensland, 2014.


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facilities to improve the student experience by creating a place of light, learning and collaboration, incorporating the latest technology and facilities. The rejuvenation will not affect the beautiful and historic sandstone façade, but will see a dramatic re-modelling of the internal space to create a state-of-the-art teaching and research facility befitting our law school’s ranking among the top 50 in the world.’75

The magnificent red cedar panelled Moot Court, much of which was from Brisbane’s Supreme Court in George Street until it was seriously damaged by fire in 1968,76 is to be preserved and re-installed in a specially designed alumni centre in the City. The refurbished Forgan Smith wing is designed to include collaborative research spaces and break-out rooms, independent study areas, and facilities for mobile technology, innovative learning, research and academic facilities. At this launch Head of School and Dean of Law Professor Sarah Derrington said that the new space was designed to support a major refocusing of the TC Beirne School of Law and would provide a dynamic and inspiring environment for students and teachers.

‘Teaching in today’s world is a stimulating, interactive and ever-evolving experience. In addition, the legal workplace is changing, with more collaborative work practices between younger lawyers and their senior colleagues.The new space will include collaborative research spaces and break-out rooms, independent study areas, and facilities for mobile technology, innovative learning, research and academic facilities.’77

Designer’s Impression of

the Refurbished Premises.

Source: UQ web site

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Professor Derrington also said: ‘As part of the school restructure, we are deliberately reducing our first-year intake to no more than 250 of the best and brightest students, and we are providing them with innovative programs, collaborative learning opportunities

75 UQ web site https://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2015/11/uq-landmark-undergo-dramatic-refurbishment. 76 See Chapter 4, Section 4.10. 77 UQ web site https://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2015/11/uq-landmark-undergo-dramatic-refurbishment.


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and excellent student-to-teacher ratios. One of the major hurdles for financially-disadvantaged students is the cost of living while undertaking a full-time degree. An endowed scholarship fund will enable our school to offer students scholarships that alleviate the imperative to work to survive.’78

The rejuvenation had been more than a year in the planning and was designed by BVN Architecture, in particular by Brian Donovan, Damian Eckersley and Andrew Ladlay. It was constructed in the main by Buildcorp Interiors Pty Ltd under the general supervision of the UQ Construction Project Manager Zak Williams.

The capital cost for funding of A$33.9 million for refurbishment came from the Senate and the UQ capital fund of which the Law School was expected to raise $10 million from philanthropic support garnered by the Law School.79 A committee was formed and the initial goal of finding sponsors for the building refurbishment quickly evolved into the more general goals of making contact with TCB alumni and funding endowed scholarships for needy students. Many people were involved in this and the names of the donors are set out in Appendix X, but three people in particular have played a major role as part of that committee.

5.14.2 Forgan Smith Funding Program 5.14.2.1 Mr John Story AO The funding appeal program was mainly run by Professor Sarah Derrington, as Head of School, supported by Inma Beaumont, as the Law School Advancement Officer, but there was much support from others. Foremost among those who helped was Mr John Story AO, A BA/LLB alumnus of the Law School and former Chancellor, who chaired the committee and played an active and financially generous role.

Mr John Story AO, Chancellor 2010-2015, at the 2014 David Jackson Moot

Dinner Source: UQ Office of Marketing and Communications

78 UQ web site https://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2015/11/uq-landmark-undergo-dramatic-refurbishment. 79 I am indebted to Mr Zak Williams for assistance with refurbishment details; emails from Mr Zack Williams, Construction Project Manager, to author on 18.8.16 and on 26.9.16.


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Appointed Chancellor of the University of Queensland in 2009, Mr John Story has faithfully served the University of Queensland and the broader community for decades. Following the award of his LLB from the TC Beirne School of Law, John Story became a senior partner in one of the leading law firms and then one of Queensland’s leading corporate lawyers, serving on the Boards of some of Queensland’s largest publicly listed companies. Despite having a busy corporate and commercial practice, he acted as a legal advisor to the University for many years, served multiple terms as a member of the University’s Senate, was Chancellor over 2009-2015 and was an Adjunct Professor.80 John Story's paternal grandfather, John Douglas Story, was UQ's first full-time Vice-Chancellor, serving in an honorary capacity, and the J.D Story building at St Lucia campus is named after him. Another monument to his grandfather is the Story Bridge in Brisbane city.81 John Story has also actively supported mooting and advocacy in the Law School. In the 1990s, as the managing partner of Corrs Chambers Westgarth, he was the driving force behind that firm providing over $100,000 to allow students to compete in international and national mooting competitions. This support has continued, with him personally donating a large sum to allow the 2014 UQ Jessup moot team to compete so successfully in Washington DC (see above in Section 5.12.3). John Story again generously provided a similar sum to support the 2015 and 2016 UQ Jessup moot teams. He and his wife Georgina also made a generous donation towards the Forgan Smith refurbishment appeal as did their son Tom Story a partner in a leading law firm in practise in Sydney. John Story was appointed an Officer in the Order of Australia (AO) in 2015 for, amongst other things, his distinguished service to business and to the law.82 5.14.2.2 Honourable Dr Margaret White AO Another leading light in the program to engage possible donors was the Honourable Dr Margaret White AO whose connection to the Law School runs back to 1970 when she was appointed as a Senior Tutor, joining then Mrs Quentin Bryce83 as the first two women staff members in the Law School. Margaret White has played a major part in many activities relating to funding the Forgan Smith refurbishment.

80 UQ web site, ‘Contact Magazine’, Tribute to the Chancellor, http://www.uq.edu.au/uqcontact/tribute-chancellor 81 Web site Create History http://createhistory.law.uq.edu.au/john-story-biography/ 82 UQ web site, ‘Contact Magazine’, Tribute to the Chancellor, above. 83 Later the Honourable Dame Quentin Bryce AD CVO, the first female Governor General of Australia.


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Hon Margaret White AO, Law School staff,

Supreme Court Judge and Deputy Chancellor

Source: UQ Senate photo archives, 2006

She was educated in Adelaide at Cabra Dominican College84 and then at the University of Adelaide Law School graduating with a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1966. She practised in the field of international law in Adelaide, the West Indies and Switzerland until marriage in 1970 when she moved to Brisbane. She taught in the Law School from 1970 until 1982 as a Senior Tutor and Temporary Lecturer and then commenced fulltime practice as a Barrister at the private bar from 1983.85 In 1990 she was appointed a Master of the Supreme Court of Queensland and in 1992 a Judge of the Supreme Court (first woman to that court). In 2010 she was appointed a permanent member of the Court of Appeal retiring in 2013 at the statutory retiring age. She then conducted a six-month Commission of Inquiry for the Queensland Government into governance in the racing industry.86 On 28 July 2016, the Prime Minister of Australia, Mr Malcolm Turnbull, and the Attorney-General, Mr George Brandis QC, announced a Royal Commission into the detention of children and the child protection system in the Northern Territory appointing Margaret White and Mick Gooda as co-commissioners.87 Margaret White was appointed an Adjunct Professor in the Law School in 2014 where she lectures in Civil Procedure with others (including the Hon Glen Williams AO). Margaret White was a member of the Senate of the University of Queensland from 1993 to 2009 and Deputy Chancellor between 2006 and 2009. Her other public service includes being a Second Officer in the Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service

84 Cabra web site http://www.cabra.catholic.edu.au/about-cabra/history. 85 Supreme Court Library web site http://www.sclqld.org.au/judicial-papers/judicial-profiles/profiles/mjwhite. 86 See web site http://createhistory.law.uq.edu.au/margaret-white-biography/. 87 Commonwealth Attorney General’s department web site document https://www.ag.gov.au/About/RoyalCommissions/Pages/Royal-Commission-into-the-Detention-of-Children-in-the-Northern-Territory.aspx.


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(WRANS) in the 1960s and many years later as a Commander in the Royal Australian Navy Strategic Reserve (RANSR) and Deputy President of the Defence Force Discipline Appeals Tribunal. In the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust she was a Member of the Queensland Selection Committee then later its Chair and currently she is the Australian National Chair of the Board of the Churchill Trust.88 She is a member of the Council for the Australian National Maritime Museum.89 Margaret White is a Foundation Member of the Australian Academy of Law and was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the UQ in 2005 and one from the University of Adelaide in 2013. She was the recipient of a Centenary Medal in 2003 and was appointed an Officer in the Order of Australia in 2013. 5.14.2.3 Mr James Bell QC Mr James Bell QC, a senior member of the Queensland Bar, was also a major contributor and he provided great assistance by approaching many members of the Bar and the Bench. This resulted in a contact being re-established with TCB alumni who had long lost contact with the Law School some of whom became financial donors.

Mr James Bell QC Source: Carbolic Smokeball

Chambers web site http://carbolic.com.au/?portfol

io=james-bell-qc

88 Susan Purdon & Aladin Rahemtula (eds) A Woman’s Place: 100 years of Queensland Women Lawyers, 2005, Supreme Court of Queensland; Winston Churchill Memorial Trust web site https://www.churchilltrust.com.au/. 89 Australian Government web site https://www.ausgovboards.gov.au/boards/council-australian-national-maritime-museum.


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James Bell was admitted to the Bar in 1976 and was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1993. He has bachelor degrees in commerce and law from the University of Queensland and a Master of Laws from Cambridge University.90 He is a certified mediator, having completed formal mediation training including the Mediation Programs at Bond University and the Harvard Law School.91He has a broad practice in advisory work, trials and appeals in both Commonwealth and State courts and has appeared in several Royal Commissions. He has been regularly appointed as mediator of disputes in the Supreme Court of Queensland, Federal Court of Australia and other jurisdictions.92 5.14.2.4 Fund Raising Committee Members Many others assisted with the fund raising and general contact of Law School alumni. The committee members included Mr Steve Skala in Melbourne and Mr John Cooper, both of whom were particularly helpful. All of this activity was underpinned by the expert administration of Ms Inma Beaumont, leading the Law School’s Advancement Team. The committee was comprised of:Mr John Story AO (Chair), the Honourable Dr Margaret White AO, Mr James Bell QC, Mr Steven Skala, Professor Sarah Derrington and Ms Inma Beaumont. The campaign Patron was the Hon. Justice Patrick Keane AC. Former members of the committee who found they were unable to continue were Andrew Catsoulis and Erin Feros The list of donors to this and earlier appeals is set out in Appendix X.

90 Create History web site http://createhistory.law.uq.edu.au/james-bell-biography/. 91 Carbolic Chambers web site http://carbolic.com.au/?portfolio=james-bell-qc. 92 Web site http://createhistory.law.uq.edu.au/james-bell-biography/.

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SENIOR STAFF

(LIST OF PROFESSORS, HEADS, DEANS & READERS)

Notes:

1. The dates shown in which people named held those particular positions and are not necessarily the dates at the Law School in other positions and the one person may appear more than once in different categories;

2. Only the Senior Staff are set out here, defined as Professors and Associate Professors (Readers);

3. Fractional and temporary appointments are not recorded; 4. The ‘Head’ and the ‘Dean’ were separate while TCB was a Faculty when it was

formed in 1936 but the TCB became a School in the merger into the BEL Faculty in 1998 and the two positions have since been held by the one person.

Professors W N L Harrison 1947-1962 E I Sykes 1962-1967 H Tarlo 1967-1969 K W Ryan 1967-1974 R D Lumb 1974-1975 D R Hall 1975-1992 R S O’Regan 1962-1966 K K Puri 1966-1986 KC T Sutton 1968-1990 E I Sykes 1974-1979 H Tarlo 1975-1979 A A Tarr 1980-1997 G D de Q Walker 1985-1996 D J Whalen 1988-2000 J A Devereux 1994-2003 A S Ratnapala 1995- 2003 B Sherman 2004-2010; 2015- N T Aroney 1999-2005 NJJ Gaskell 2009- J Allan 2004- G Carney 2012-2013 H Douglas 2012- JC Corrin 2012- K Barker 2012- G Orr 2012- A Schloenhardt 2012- S Bronitt 2014-


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W Swain 2015- (part time at UQ; with Auckland Uni.) AE Cassimatis 2015- CJ Forrest 2015- J Fulcher 2015- R Bigwood 2016- F Rohde 2016- Head of Department/School of Law W N L Harrison 1947-1962 E I Sykes 1962-1967 H Tarlo 1967-1969 K W Ryan 1969-1974 R D Lumb 1974-1975 D R Hall 1975- 1975 R S O’Regan 1975-1979 K W Ryan (Acting) 1978-1979 A Fogg 1980-1983 R D Lumb 1984-1985 D R Hall (Acting) 1985-1985 G De Q Walker 1985-1996 K K Puri (Acting) 1991-1992 I R Zimmer 1996-1998 A S Ratnapala (Acting) 1997-1999 A A Tarr 1998-2002 J A Devereux (Acting) 2002-2003 C E F Rickett 2003-2007 R B Grantham 2007-2012 G Carney 2012-2013 NJJ Gaskell (Acting) 2013-2013 S Derrington 2013- Dean of Law R Yorke Hedges 1936-1945 A D McGill KC 1946-1948 W N L Harrison 1948-1962 E I Sykes 1962-1967 H Tarlo 1967-1969 K C T Sutton 1969-1970 K W Ryan 1971-1974 J M Herlihy 1974-1975 H Kidwai 1975-1977 W A Lee 1977-1978 R N Barber 1978-1981


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J O’Donovan 1981-1982 K C T Sutton 1982-1988 G De Q Walker 1988-1996 K K Puri (acting) 1991-1992 I R Zimmer 1996-1998 (After 1998 the position of Dean was combined with Head of department/School) Executive Dean, Business Economics and Law JW Longworth 1997-1998 I R Zimmer 1999-2008 T Brailsford 2009-2011 I Watson 2012-2016 Professores Emeriti H Tarlo 1986 K W Ryan 1995 G De Q Walker 1996 K C T Sutton 1996 A S Fogg 2001 S Ratnapala 2015 G A Moens 2015 Graduates of the UQ who have been Deans of other Australian Law Schools S Colbran University of New England B M L Crommelin University of Melbourne J O’Donovan University of Western Australia Readers / Associate Professors of Law K W Ryan 1964-1968 J R Morris 1966-1974 R D Lumb 1967-1980 P Gerber 1975-1976 W A Lee 1975-1989 A S Fogg 1978-1988 J R Forbes 1981-1999 J O’Donovan 1982-1985 S Robinson 1985-1994 K L Fletcher 1989-2008 K Puri 1989-1995 G A Moens 1990-1994 D Gifford 1991-2007 B C Cairns 1992-2008


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C Sappideen 1992-1996 C Turner 1995-2007 S A Ratnapala 1998-2001 M W D White 1998-2004 S Fisher 1999-2004 R Johnstone 1999-2001 K Vaggelas 1999-2000 N M Alexander 2000-2003 S Derrington 2002-2007 P M McDermott 2002-2014 R G Mortensen 2003-2007 R Burrell 2005-2012 D Hamer 2005-2009 K Barker 2006-2012 J C Corrin 2007-2012 G Orr 2007-2011 N T Aroney 2008-2009 K L Sadiq 2009-2012 H A Douglas 2009-2011 C J Forrest 2010-2015 N J James 2010-2012 D S Morrison 2010- A E Cassimatis 2012-2015 T Walsh 2012- J G Crowe 2013- 2016 E A Black 2013- M A Stephenson 2013- W Swain 2014-2015 L Aitken 2014- R Ekins 2014 - (part time at UQ; with Oxford Uni) P Billings 2015- Q Liu 2015- S Percy 2016- (joint appointment with School of Political

Science and International Studies) Originally compiled by Nicholas Luke for the 1st edition incorporating earlier research by Dr Peter McDermot and the author. The list is derived from a number of sources, including the University of Queensland Calendars and Yearbooks, University Senate Minutes, and other records made available by University Archives. Updated in 2016 by Keilin Anderson with assistance of Declan Hughes and numerous members of staff who kindly provided input.


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PRESIDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND LAW SOCIETY (UQLS) 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977

HT Gibbs TG Matthews CD Sheahan CD Sheahan DM Campbell [Not operating during WWII] [Not operating] [Not operating] [Not operating] HA Becconsall WB Campbell PD Connolly PR Smith PR Smith MH Gore G Thompson G Thompson NP Power BP McCafferty JM Lee HA Weld FGM Foster GR Bell JR Steele ET Anning WA Howell PW Bray DF Jackson MB Conroy JAM McInnes RS Gregory RE Cooper/ RC Katter DJ Galligan C Newton FW Redmond PM McKeering CG Lucas N Samios JD Batch DL Meredith GC Martin


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1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

TD North CL Hughes PDT Applegarth AJH Morris PM O'Shea PM Jamieson AM Daubney JA Devereux A Catsoulis SJ Lee DJ Barakin CC Arnott KM Mandla VR Gordon JH Wentworth JA Myers R Sinnathamby R Dann S Jenner D St Clair C McNab T Gordon P Rawlings PJ Black PJ Silver M Fox MF Grdovich AJ Rowell BC McRae G Hinchcliffe V Doyle P Zielinsk

2010 M Floro 2011 L Furness 2012 G Jegatheesan 2013 C Hardy 2014 T O’Donnell 2015 G Morgan 2016 K Cincotta

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PRESIDENTS OF THE WOMEN LAW STUDENTS ASSOCIATION (WLSA), THE WOMEN AND THE LAW SOCIETY (WATL) AND THE JUSTICE AND THE

LAW SOCIETY (JATL) The Women Law Students Association (WLSA) Presidents The Women Law Students Association (WLSA) commenced in 1979 at UQ and its known presidents included Maria Borsellino (Feeney), Diane Fingleton, Roslyn Atkinson and Diane Soon. The authors have not been able to compile more complete details. The Women and the Law Society (WATL) Presidents WATL commenced in 1993 before changing to Justice and the Law (JATL) in 2008. 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006

Jacqueline Jago Dahlia Eissa Dahlia Eissa Georgine Duncan Andree Starke Sonja Litz Carla Klease Eliza Hess Zenovia Amerisa Pappas Lucinda Doughty Oanh Thi Tran Radha Ivory Lana Kelly Kathryn Purcell

2007 Judy Shum The Justice and the Law Society (JATL) Presidents JATL commenced in 2008 and continues to the time of writing. A description of JATL and its current functions can be found in Chapter 4. 2008 Maja Doma 2009 Virginia Barrios 2010 Suvinee Gunasena 2011 Amy Tuite 2012 Amanda Wu 2013 Natalie Morris 2014 Samuel Walpole 2015 Shane Montgomery 2016 Jocelyn Bosse


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The WLSA note was compiled from information from Justice Roslyn Atkinson and the book Purdon S & Rahemtula A (eds) ‘A Woman’s Place: 100 Years of Queensland Women Lawyers’, 2005, Supreme Court Library, pp.104 and 196. Only the WATL list was compiled for the 1st edition, which was by its President, Kathryn Purcell and for this the 2nd edition the JATL list was compiled by Keilin Anderson and JATL Secretary Chloe Bennett.


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LAW STUDENT PRESIDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND UNION Notes: 1. This appendix lists only those law students who were presidents of the UQ Union, not all presidents. The presidents of the UQ Law Society (UQLS) are listed in Appendix III; 2. For some detail about Chester James Parker (1937 president) see Chapter 2 and for more on Harry Talbot Gibbs see Chapter 3 (1938 president). 1937 1938 1948 1953 1954 1956 1976 1977 1979 1980 1983 1986 1990 1992 1994 1996 2000 2001 2006 2007 2009 2011 2012 2014 2015

Chester James Parker Harry Talbot Gibbs Samuel Basil Wright Edmund George Broad Cedric Edward Hampson John Ward Greenwood Richard William Spencer Richard William Spencer Eugene O’Sullivan Eugene O’Sullivan Fleur Yvette Kingham Jillian Frances Farmer Jane Lye Michael John Kleinschmidt Murray Patrick Watt Jody Anne Thompson Sarah Louise McBratney Juliana Virine Lucinda Weber Julie-Ann Campbell Brandon Carter Benjamin Gorrie Colin Finke Joshua Millroy Kathryn Cramp

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APPENDIX VI

TC Beirne School of Law Winners of Selected Scholarships

Notes: 1. The following is a list of scholarship winners who are graduates from the TC Beirne

School of Law. The list is compiled from selected scholarships to which the Law School’s attention has been drawn and includes scholarships announced up until mid-2016. TC Beirne graduates have won many other scholarships and fellowships that are not included here. This is often because the law school is not notified about scholarships awarded after graduation and sometimes because some scholarship organisations do not release the names of former recipients. For instance, no details of the Chevening Scholarships could be obtained and only second hand information regarding the Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholarships. Further, due to limited resources it has not been possible to discover and include the many scholarships granted by individual institutions. We apologise to anyone who has been omitted.

2. The first two Rhode Scholars from the Law School, Harley Stumm and Chester Parker, were both killed in World War II, see Chapter 2.

3. Only scholarships are covered in this appendix. Prize donors and the prize winner for the Virgil Power Prize (only) are covered in Appendix X.

1. Rhodes Scholarships (Queensland, unless otherwise indicated). Stumm, Harley Charles 1935 Parker, Chester James 1938 Hampson, Cedric Edward 1955 Galligan, Denis James 1971 Annand, Peter Geoffrey Grant 1972 Wylie, John 1982 McKenna, John David 1984 Horrigan, Bryan Terence 1986 Crowley, Daniel John 1987 Devereux, John Anthony 1988 Kelly, Liam Francis 1989 Arnott, Craig (Australia at Large) 1991 Nesic, Miryana 1992 Wainright, Elsina M. 1994 Dann, Robert (Australia at Large) 1997 O’Gorman, Kateena 2003 Juratowich, Ben (Australia at Large) 2003 Stumer, Andrew 2004 Quinn, Simon 2005 Luke, Nicholas 2006


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Goss, Ryan 2007 Kloeden, Anna 2008 Mullins, Robert (Australia at Large) 2008 Goss, Caitlin 2009 Howley, Jessica 2010

Note: The Queensland Supreme Court judge, Hon. Justice Neal William Macrossan, BA Oxon 1910; MA Oxon 1914; BA UQ 1911 Ad Eusdem Gradum, was also a Rhodes Scholar but this was, of course, long before the Law School was formed.

2. Fulbright Scholarships

Sykes, Edward 1955 Johnston, W Ross 1965 Robin, P David 1967 Barber, Ross 1976 Swinson, John 1990 Wolff, Leon 1994 Zorzi, Christine 1994 Toomey, Leigh 1998 Tuch, Andrew 1998 Peel, Jacqueline 1999 Burmeister, Kerrie 2001

3. Frank Knox Memorial Scholarship1990 1998

Swinson, John Tuch, Andrew Hirst, Scott 2000

4. Commonwealth Scholarship & Fellowship Plan (CSFP) UK AwardsHirst, Megan 2001 Kampmark, Binoy 2002

5. Cambridge Australia Trust Scholarships1

Cassimatis, Anthony 1989

6. The Sir Robert Menzies Memorial Scholarships in Law(Commenced 1982)

Derrington, Roger 1987 Williams, Frances 1996 Payne, Kathleen 1999 Ash, Christopher 201

1 We were unable to obtain a complete list of UQ Law Graduates who have received this scholarship as records are not made public. The names included are those that happened to be drawn to our attention.


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7. Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholarships2 Twomey, Paul 1984 Biancotti, Anthony 1985 O’Shea, Paul 1986 Pincus, Julia 1993 Moss, Derren 2003 Del Mar, Katherine 2006

8. Lionel Murphy Post Graduate Scholarships (Commenced 1987) Hocking, Barbara 1988 Kingham, Fleur 1989

9. Monash Scholarships (Commenced 2004) Mowbray, Jacqueline 2004 Grant, Laura 2011 Drummond, Catherine 2014 Mawby, Abigail 2016

10. Harkness Fellowships of the Commonwealth Fund Pincus, Caitlin 1988 Moore, Susan 1991

11. Gates’ Foundation PhD Scholarship Parlett, Kate 2006

12. University of Queensland Post-Graduate Research Scholarships Cline, Keith 1992 Sayers, Mark 1996 Trone, John 1997 Chrenkoff, Arthur 1998 Whitehall, Debbie 2004

13. Australian Post-Graduate Award Scholarships Irwin, Angela 1998

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McCarthy, Wanda 1998 Tarr, Julie-Anne 1999 Fisher, Hilary 2000 Dickson, Elizabeth 2001 Crowe, Jonathan 2004 Carius, Stephen 2005

14. Freda Barge 3-Year Fellowship; Graduate Women Queensland Goss, Caitlin 2012 Nye, Hilary 2013 Compiled by Dr Paul O’Shea and Nicholas Luke in 2005 for the 1st edition and updated in 2016 by Keilin Anderson and Dr Caitlin Goss.


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GRADUATING VALEDICTORIANS Notes: At graduation ceremonies sometimes the graduating classes are asked to elect a student from their cohort to speak at the ceremony, called the Valedictorian, which is usually one of the leading scholars who also played a major role in other student activities. At UQ, the law graduations are often mixed with other schools so the valedictorian who speaks at the graduation is not always a law student. Only law student valedictorians who spoke at the graduation are listed. (Where the speaker at the graduation is a non-law graduate the law valedictorian speaks at the UQLS dinner.) Information relating to the graduating valedictorians was only available from 2005 onwards. July 2005 Ceremony Simon Eggins; Ms Annaliese Jackson December 2005 Ceremony Sam Whittington July 2006 Ceremony Nicholas Carr December 2006 Ceremony Daniel Pizzato July 2007 Ceremony Andrew Hodge (elected but did not graduate in the ceremony) December 2007 Ceremony Anders Mykkeltvedt July 2008 Ceremony Breanna Hamilton December 2008 Ceremony Kavita Paw July 2009 Ceremony Belinda McRae December 2009 Ceremony Mitch Riley

July 2010 Ceremony James Green December 2010 Ceremony Angus O'Brien July 2011 Ceremony Isuru Devendra December 2011 Ceremony Jo Sri (elected but did not graduate in the ceremony) July 2012 Ceremony Andrew Wydmanski December 2012 Ceremony Byron Hewson July 2013 Ceremony Bianca Kabel December 2013 Ceremony Carl Tessmann July 2014 Ceremony Claire Morris December 2014 Ceremony Sophie Underwood


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July 2015 Ceremony Jack Siebert

December 2015 Ceremony Lachlan Campbell

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TC Beirne Graduates Superior Court Judges

Notes: 1. Due to the complexities involved acting appointments to the Bench are not recorded. 2. Only those with a UQ degree are listed. In most cases they are law degrees awarded on academic merit and Note 6 under has some exceptions of interest. The TC Beirne School of Law graduates from 1938 onwards are listed in Appendix I. The honorifics and post-nominals are recorded only once, which is on first mention working down the appendix and are those at time of writing (mid-2016). 3. The careers of judges who have been appointed from one court to another or elevated to another appointment in the same court may be followed from section to section. 4. The post-nominal ‘QC’ or ‘SC’ has not been recorded as nearly all appointees were ‘Silk’ before appointment. Further, there is an argument that the appointment of ‘Queen’s Counsel’ or equivalent is cancelled or subsumed into the commission to the Bench as the two offices of ‘Counsel’ and ‘Justice’ or ‘Judge’ are incompatible and the more senior one prevails. The opposing argument, that the original commission revives when the conflict with the senior commission lapses seems, however, to be the stronger one. 5. I have followed the protocol that Knights Bachelor do not usually use the post-nominal letters ‘Kt’ to denote their honour as the appellation ‘Sir’ before their name is considered sufficient. 6. There are a number of superior court judges who were awarded degrees other than in law and those degrees are not recorded. Some of the judges listed here were awarded LLD Honoraris causa who are not otherwise law degree graduates. 7. Four judges were awarded BAs on 01.06.1911 by UQ which were awarded Ad Eusdem Gradum based on degrees from elsewhere to mark the occasion of the founding of the University of Queensland. Their details are:

(a) The Honourable Hugh Denis Macrossan BA (USyd., 1902); (b) The Honourable Neal William Macrossan BA (Oxon.1910), MA (Oxon.1914) (a Rhodes Scholar); (c) The Honourable John Laskey Woolcock BA (USyd., 1883); (d) The Honourable Hereward Humfry Henchman BA (UMelb., 1896; MA & LLB (UMelb., 1898).

8. As this is all difficult original research, errors and omissions are possible for which the author apologises.

Name & Title Appointment Departed Office High Court of Australia

Chief Justices The Right Honourable Sir Samuel Walker Griffith PC, GCMG, KCMG

5/10/1903 17/10/1919

The Right Honourable Sir Harry Talbot Gibbs PC, AC, GCMG, KBE

12/02/1981 5/02/1987

The Honourable Sir Francis Gerard Brennan AC, KBE 21/04/1995 21/05/1998 High Court Justices The Honourable Sir William Flood Webb KBE 16/05/1946 16/05/1958


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The Right Honourable Sir Harry Talbot Gibbs 4/08/1970 Appointed HCA CJ The Honourable Sir Francis Gerard Brennan 12/02/1981 Appointed HCA CJ The Honourable Ian David Francis Callinan AC 3/02/1998 1/09/2007 The Honorable Patrick Anthony Keane AC 5/3/2013 Queensland Supreme Court

Chief Justices The Right Honourable Sir Samuel Walker Griffith 13/03/1893 Appointed HCA CJ The Honourable Sir Pope Alexander Cooper KCMG 21/10/1903 31/03/1922 The Honourable Hugh Denis Macrossan 17/05/1940 23/06/1940 The Honourable Sir William Flood Webb 27/06/1940 Appointed HCA

HCJ The Honourable Neal William Macrossan 23/04/1946 30/12/1955 The Honourable Sir Alan James Mansfield KCMG, KCVO 9/02/1956 21/02/1966 The Honourable Sir Mostyn Hanger KBE 13/05/1971 18/07/1977 The Honourable Sir Walter Benjamin Campbell AC 18/02/1982 7/07/1985 The Honourable Sir Dormer George Andrews 8/07/1985 7/04/1989 The Honourable John Murtagh Macrossan AC 10/04/1989 16/02/1998 The Honourable Paul de Jersey AC 17/02/1998 8/07/2014 The Honourable Catherine Ena Holmes 11/09/2015 Queensland Court of Appeal

Presidents The Honourable Gerald Edward Fitzgerald AC 16/12/1991 30/06/1998 The Honourable Margaret Anne McMurdo AC 30/07/1998 Judges of Appeal The Honourable Geoffrey Lance Davies AO 16/12/1991 4/02/2005 The Honourable Bruce Harvey McPherson CBE 12/12/1991 23/09/2006 The Honourable Cecil William Pincus 16/12/1991 3/03/2001 The Honourable James Burrows Thomas AM 30/07/1998 22/03/2002 The Honourable Glen Norman Williams AO 14/12/2000 24/01/2008 The Honourable John Alexander Jerrard 3/06/2002 8/12/2008 The Honourable Patrick Anthony Keane 21/02/2005 Appointed Fed Court

CJ The Honourable Catherine Ena Holmes 26/05/2006 Appointed CJ The Honourable John Daniel Murray Muir 13/07/2007 19/12/2014 The Honourable Hugh Barron Fraser 28/01/2008 The Honourable Richard Noel Chesterman AO RFD 11/12/2008 22/04/2012 The Honourable Margaret Jean White AO 2/07/2010 3/06/2013 The Honourable Robert William Gotterson AO 27/04/2012 The Honourable Phillip Michael Hugh Morrison 8/08/2013 The Honourable Anthe Ioanna Philippides 18/12/2014 The Honourable Philip Donald McMurdo 13/11/2015 Queensland Supreme Court - Trial Division

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The Honourable Neal William Macrossan 1/07/1940 Appointed QSC CJ The Honourable Sir Alan James Mansfield 20/03/1947 Appointed QSC CJ The Honourable Sir Mostyn Hanger 15/04/1970 Appointed QSC CJ The Honourable Norton Sheridan Stable 19/07/1977 22/10/1979 The Honourable Sir Dormer George Andrews 18/02/1982 Appointed QSC CJ The Honourable Jack Lawrence Kelly CBE RFD 8/07/1985 24/09/1990 The Honourable Bruce Harvey McPherson 25/09/1990 Appointed QCA JA Senior Judge Administrators The Honourable Martin Patrick Moynihan AO 16/12/1991 24/08/2007 The Honourable John Harris Byrne AO RFD 24/08/2007 Queensland Puisne Judges The Honourable Sir Pope Alexander Cooper 5/01/1883 Appointed QSC CJ The Honourable Sir William Flood Webb 24/04/1925 Appointed QSC SPJ The Honourable Hugh Denis Macrossan 23/07/1926 Appointed QSC SPJ The Honourable John Laskey Woolcock 1/02/1927 18/01/1929 The Honourable Hereward Humfry Henchman 5/03/1929 25/04/1939 The Honourable Sir Alan James Mansfield 17/05/1940 Appointed QSC SPJ The Honourable Neal William Macrossan 27/06/1940 Appointed QSC SPJ The Honourable Edwin James Droughton Stanley 6/02/1947 30/10/1964 The Honourable Thomas Maurice Barry 20/11/1952 3/02/1955 The Honourable Sir Mostyn Hanger 23/07/1953 Appointed QSC SPJ The Honourable Leslie Brown 10/02/1955 12/12/1961 The Honourable Norton Sheridan Stable 24/07/1958 Appointed QSC SPJ The Honourable Sir Harry Talbot Gibbs 8/06/1961 Appointed to Federal

Bankruptcy Court The Honourable Russell Wigton Skerman 9/08/1962 21/09/1973 The Honourable Graham Lloyd Hart 11/02/1963 18/04/1974 The Honourable Douglas Malcolm Campbell 11/02/1965 4/08/1985 The Honourable Sir Walter Benjamin Campbell 1/08/1967 Appointed QSC CJ The Honourable Ronald Henry Matthews 14/08/1967 10/02/1989 The Honourable Sir Joseph Patrick George Kneipp 6/11/1969 13/11/1992 The Honourable Sir Dormer George Andrews 13/05/1971 Appointed QSC SPJ The Honourable Jack Lawrence Kelly 25/09/1973 Appointed QSC SPJ The Honourable James David Dunn 30/04/1974 29/03/1983 The Honourable Charles Dean Sheahan 20/01/1977 25/01/1985 The Honourable Peter David Connolly CBE 31/10/1977 29/09/1990 The Honourable Alan George Demack AO 16/01/1978 19/05/2000 The Honourable John Murtagh Macrossan 4/02/1980 Appointed QSC CJ The Honourable Bruce Harvey McPherson 28/01/1982 Appointed QSC SPJ The Honourable Tom Farquhar Shepherdson 18/02/1982 10/03/2000 The Honourable James Burrows Thomas 18/02/1982 Appointed QCA JA The Honourable Glen Norman Williams 3/12/1982 Appointed to QCA

JA The Honourable Desmond Keith Derrington 3/12/1982 4/04/2000 The Honourable William Joseph Carter 12/05/1983 31/05/1990 The Honourable Kevin William Ryan CBE, RFD 13/02/1984 15/04/1994 The Honourable Martin Patrick Moynihan 13/02/1984 Appointed QSC SJA


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The Honourable Paul de Jersey 4/02/1985 Appointed QSC CJ The Honourable Brian William Ambrose 8/07/1985 11/09/2003 The Honourable John Alfred Dowsett AM 29/07/1985 Appointed to FC The Honourable Richard Ellard Cooper 2/02/1989 Appointed to FC The Honourable William Charles Lee 20/02/1989 30/04/1999 The Honourable Kenneth George William Mackenzie 10/04/1989 8/12/2008 The Honourable John Harris Byrne 25/07/1989 Appointed QSC SJA The Honourable Keiran Anthony Cullinane AM 16/11/1992 15/07/2011 The Honourable Margaret Jean White 2/04/1992 Appointed QSC CA The Honourable Henry George Fryberg 23/09/1994 29/11/2013 The Honourable John Westlake Barrett Helman 16/12/1994 7/07/2007 The Honourable John Daniel Murray Muir 3/04/1997 App QCA JA The Honourable Stanley Graham Jones AO 2/10/1997 9/09/2011 The Honourable Richard Noel Chesterman 12/03/1998 App QCA JA The Honourable Margaret Anne Wilson 20/08/1998 11/04/2014 The Honourable Roslyn Gay Atkinson AO 3/09/1998 The Honourable Robert Ramsay Douglas RFD 17/06/1999 26/11/2002 The Honourable Peter Richard Dutney 16/03/2000 Died in office

4/09/2009 The Honourable Debra Ann Mullins 16/03/2000 The Honourable Catherine Ena Holmes 16/03/2000 Appointed QCA JA The Honourable Anthe Ioanna Phillipides 14/12/2000 Appointed QCA JA The Honourable Philip Donald McMurdo 3/03/2003 Appointed QCA JA The Honourable James Sholto Douglas 27/11/2003 The Honourable Ann Majella Lyons 10/07/2006 The Honourable Martin Daubney 13/07/2007 The Honourable Glenn Charles Martin AM 31/08/2007 The Honourable Duncan Vincent Cook McMeekin 15/10/2007 The Honourable Peter David Talbot Applegarth 29/08/2008 The Honourable Peter James Lyons 6/02/2009 The Honourable David Boddice 2/07/2010 The Honourable Jean Hazel Dalton 25/02/2011 The Honourable James Dawson Henry 12/09/2011 The Honourable David Octavius Joseph North 18/07/2011 The Honourable David John Sandford Jackson 8/10/2012 The Honourable David Graham Thomas 16/09/2013 The Honourable Peter James Flanagan 27/06/2014 The Honourable John Kennedy Bond 30/03/2015 Senior Masters of the Supreme Court William Charles Lee 15/05/1986 Appointed QSC Donald Russell Horton 1/03/1990 14/08/1991 Master of the Supreme Court William Charles Lee 6/11/1980 Appointed QSC SM Henry Arthur Weld 24/11/1980 30/06/1988 Donald Russell Horton 27/02/1989 Appointed QSC SM Margaret Jean White 1/03/1990 Appointed QSC


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Federal Court of Australia Chief Justice The Honourable Patrick Anthony Keane 22/03/2010 Appointed HCA Federal Court Judges The Honourable Harry Talbot Gibbs 25/06/1967

Bankruptcy Court

Appointed HCA

The Honourable Francis Gerard Brennan 1/02/1977 Appointed HCA The Honourable Gerald Edward Fitzgerald 19/11/1981 30/06/1984 The Honourable Jeffrey Ernest John Spender 17/05/1984 18/07/2010 The Honourable Cecil William Pincus 4/10/1985 Appointed QCA JA The Honourable David Francis Jackson AM 15/11/1985 26/05/1987 The Honourable Trevor Russell Hartigan 23/08/1987 Died 24/04/1990 The Honourable Douglas Paton Drummond 2/12/1991 1/04/2003 The Honourable Richard Ellard Cooper 31/03/1992 14/03/2005 The Honourable Paul Desmond Finn 3/07/1995 4/07/2012 The Honourable John Alfred Dowsett 14/109/1998 The Honourable Andrew Peter Greenwood 4/08/2005 The Honourable Berna Collier 8/02/2006 The Honourable John Alexander Logan RFD 27/09/2007 Family Court of Australia

Family Court Judges The Honourable Alan George Demack 21/01/1976 Appointed QSC The Honourable Graham Rodney Bell 27/02/1976 20/02/2015 The Honourable Robert John Bulley 18/04/1977 18/07/1995 The Honourable George Ernest Lambert 27/10/1977 10/08/1990 The Honourable Peter Francis Underhill 31/01/1978 31/12/1997 The Honourable Travis Erwin Lindenmayer 21/02/1976 ?31/12/2002 The Honourable James Patrick O'Hara Barry 12/12/1983 27/06/2011 The Honourable Mary Madeleine Finn 2/07/1990 (Appointed to Fam

Ct App Div 10/08/93). Retired

31.3.10 The Honourable Peter Francis Anthony Hilton 25/07/1991 (died 2000) The Honourable Bernard John Warnick 18/04/1991 (Appointed to Fam

Ct App Div 12/12/02)

The Honourable Brian Edward Jordan 26/04/1994 The Honourable Michelle May 5/09/1995 (Apptd to Fam Ct

App Div 06/02/03) The Honourable John Alexander Jerrard 20/03/1998 Appointed QCA JA The Honourable Peter John Murphy 11/10/2007 (Appointed to Fam

Ct App Div 11/10/07)

The Honourable Jenny Deyell Hogan 14/01/2013 The Honourable Peter William Tree 25/01/2013


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New South Wales Supreme Court NSW Supreme Court Judges The Honourable Robert Shallcross Hulme 14/05/1993 6/06/2012 The Honourable David Anthony Hunt AO 5/03/1979 31/03/1998 The Honourable Gerald Edward Fitzgerald 1/07/1998 16/04/2001 The Honourable Ian Vitaly Gzell AM 4/02/2002 27/05/2013 Supreme Court of Northern Territory The Honourable Judith Clair Kelly 12/08/2009 Supreme Court of Tasmania

The Honourable Shan Eve Tennent 15/03/2005 3/11/2017 Solomon Islands Court of Appeal

Judges of the Court of Appeal The Honourable Jack Lawrence Kelly 1/12/1982 1984 The Honourable Bruce Harvey McPherson 4/02/1985 2013 The Honourable Peter David Connolly 1/12/1982 00/00/1994 The Honourable Glen Norman Williams 16/09/1993 March 2015 The Honourable Margaret Anne Wilson 21/08/2014 Fiji High Court and Court of Appeal The Honourable Bruce Harvey McPherson 00/12/2004 c.2012 The Honourable Kevan John Townsley 1996 2000 Hong Kong High Court and Court of Final Appeal

The Honourable Sir Noel Plunkett Power GBS (Court of Final Appeal)

High Court Judge 1979, Justice of Appeal 1987, Vice-President Court of Appeal

1993, Acting Chief Justice 28.10.1996 – 30.6.1997, Vice President Court of Appeal 1997, Non – Permanent Judge of the Court

of Final Appeal from 2000 and died in office in 2009.

The Honourable Eric Charles Barnes 1966 – Magistrate; 1970 re-appointed Magistrate; 1978 - appointed District Judge; 1981 - 1992 High Court

PNG National Court The Honourable John Logan (Federal Court appointed PNG Court part time)

1/12/2011

The Honourable Berna Collier (Federal Court appointed PNG Court part time)

1/12/2011

Brunei High Court The Honourable Sir Noel Plunkett Power, Commissioner of the Court of Appeal 2003-2006, President from 28/4/2007 until his death in 2009.

2003

Died in office 19/11/2009

The Honourable Geoffrey Lance Davies 2006 2014 English High Court

The Hon. Mr Justice Ross Cranston 2007


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The original version of this Appendix in the 1st edition was coordinated by the author and compiled with the research assistance of Mrs Angela Allen, UQ Law Library, Ms Megan Lyneham, UQ Archives, Mr Aladin Rahemtula, Supreme Court Librarian and the Queensland Supreme Court library staff. This was upgraded in 2016 by Mr Brendon Copley, the Research and Training Librarian, Supreme Court Library, with the general support of the Supreme Court Librarian Mr David Bratchford. I have been assisted by the Hon Glen Williams AO, the Hon Geoffrey Davies AO, Justice John Byrne AO RFD, Justice Michelle May and other former and current judges. I have also been assisted by Lady (Irma) Power in relation to the Hong Kong and Brunei judiciary concerning the late Sir Noel Power and the late Honourable Eric Barnes.


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APPENDIX IX

TC Beirne Graduates Governor-General, Governors and Chief Justices

Notes: 1. Honorifics are those currently at time of writing (mid-2016). 2. UQ Law School Alumni who were appointed to a superior court are listed in

Appendix VIII, which includes some of those listed here. 3. Two of the Chief Justice are listed as they were awarded BAs on 01/06/1911 by UQ

which were awarded Ad Eusdem Gradum based on degrees from elsewhere to mark the occasion of the founding of the University of Queensland, as mentioned in Appendix I. They are:

(a) The Honourable Hugh Denis Macrossan BA (USyd., 1902); (b) The Honourable Neal William Macrossan BA (Oxon.1910), MA (Oxon.1914) (a

Rhodes Scholar); 4. A number of Chief Justices are listed as they were awarded LLDs Honoraris causa. 5. One Governor, Sir Alan Mansfied who was also Chief Justice, is listed as he was awarded

an LLB Ad Eusdem Gradum in 1956 and an LLD Honoraris causa in 1970. 6. Sir Samuel Griffith is included as he was awarded an LLD Honoris causa in 1913. Governor General The Honourable Dame Quentin Bryce AD CVO (2008 - 2014) Queensland Governors The Honourable Sir Alan Mansfield KCMG KCVO (1966 – 1976) The Honourable Sir Walter Benjamin Campbell AC (1985 – 1992) The Honourable Leneen Forde AC (1992-1997) The Honourable Dame Quentin Bryce AD CVO (2003 - 2008) The Honourable Paul De Jersey AC (2014 – ) Chief Justices The Right Honourable Sir Samuel Walker Griffith PC, GCMG. KCMG The Honourable Sir Pope Alexander Cooper KCMG The Honourable Hugh Denis Macrossan The Honourable Sir William Flood Webb KBE The Honourable Neal William Macrossan The Honourable Sir Alan James Mansfield KCMG, KCVO The Honourable Sir Mostyn Hanger KBE The Honourable Sir Walter Benjamin Campbell AC The Honourable Sir Dormer George Andrews The Honourable John Murtagh Macrossan AC The Honourable Paul de Jersey AC The Honourable Catherine Holmes Compiled in 2016 by Keilin Anderson.


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APPENDIX X

MAJOR DONORS, BEQUESTS, PRIZES AND AWARDS

Notes:

1. This Appendix contains a list of all the people and organisations that have generously given to the Law School and consented for their names to be publicised. The list is divided into the various purposes or campaigns to which donations were given up until mid 2016. Names and titles are mostly given as at the time of the donation but with so many donors having so many honorifics errors and inconsistencies are inevitable, for which the author apologises. The dates given at the end of the campaign’s title indicates the years in which that campaign was operating and not when each listed donor gave their contribution. The information on bequests was not readily available and so there may be some errors.

2. Following the Donors and Bequests for other purposes are donors for Prizes and Awards for particular law subjects.

3. The information setting out the prize and award winners is beyond the research capacity for this book. However, the details of the recipients of the Virgil Power Prize are readily available so they have been included at the end of this appendix.

4. A full list of all UQ prizes and their criteria may be found on the UQ web site: https://scholarships.uq.edu.au/filething/get/14651/PrizesSectionOnly-21-04-16.pdf.

5. The Law School Forgan Smith Redevelopment (2015) list of donors on page 8 refers to donations received by 30.6.16 only, not to pledges or later donations. Faculty of Law Capital Fund (1926-1953) Auriac, Mr George Beirne, Mr Thomas Charles Carter, Mr Reginald Cormack, Mr Ralph L’Estrange, Mr William Mandeville Ellis Neville, Mr Paul Seaman, Mr George Tolson, Mr James The Garrick Chair of Law (1916) Garrick, Miss Katherine Cecie Establishment of the Faculty of Law (1935) Beirne, Mr Thomas Charles The John Macrossan Memorial Library (1949) Mrs John Murtagh Macrossan with Hugh, Neal and Vincent Macrossan TC Beirne School of Law (Annual) Allens AMPLA Ltd

Andrew, Mrs Susan Backhouse, Mr William Beach, Ms Ruth Biggs & Biggs Lawyers Black, Dr Elizabeth Bonaccorso, Mr Alfio Botting, His Honour Judge Hugh Boyce, His Honour Judge Manus QC Brennan, The Hon Sir Francis AC KBE Buckley, Mrs Susan Bullock, Mr David Cameron, Mr Ross Campbell, The Hon Walter AC QC Caro, Mrs Carla Castley, Mrs Rebecca Chetwyn, Miss Pamela Chung, Mr Szc Clair, Ms Siobhan Clancy, Mrs Sheree Clark, Mr Stephen College of Law Comino, Ms Victoria Cool, Mrs Siobhan Cox, Mr Owen Crommelin, Professor Brian Michael AO Dann, Miss Geraldine

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Davies, Adjunct Professor Iyla Davis, Mr Harry Demack, The Hon Justice Alan AO Den Dekker, Mr Adrian Derrington, Adjunct Professor The Hon Desmond QC Douglas, The Hon Justice James QC Ehrich, Mr Walter Elliott, Mr John Evans, Mr Peter Fellows, Mr Michael Fogg, Emeritus Professor Allan Fraser, Mr Donald QC Freir, Mr Sergio Gesling, Mr Clive OAM Glynn, Mr Anthony QC Gold, Professor Edgar AM QC Gordon, Mr Benedict Graham, Dr Daniel Graham, Mr Daniel Grano, Mr Thomas Gray, Ms Rebecca Greenfield, Mr Harvey Gutwein, Mr Peter Hall, Mr Cameron Harris, Mrs Zinta Hooper, Mr Evan Howatson, Mr Ronald Isdale, Mr William Kelly, Mr Declan QC Kerwick, Mr Anthony Leibinger, Mr Reginald Lightfoot, Mr Mark Lock, Mr John Lockhart, Mr Peter Logan, Mr John RFD SC Lui, Mrs H Lyons, Miss Robyn MacGinley, Mr Michael Mann, Professor Jeffrey AM Marini, Mr Alessandro Marks, Mr David Matthews, Mr Ronald McAulay, Mr Jason McCracken, The Hon Alan McEvoy, Timothy McInnes Wilson Lawyers McKenna, Mr John QC Mew, Mrs J Millhouse, Adjunct Professor Alan

Moore, Mr Graham Morrison, Mr Philip QC Murphy, Mr Derek Newton, Mr Christopher O'Sullivan, Mr Mark Pincus, The Hon William QC Price, Mr J Property Rights Australia Inc Rafter, His Honour Judge Anthony Ramiscal, Mr Noel Rankin, Mr Geoffrey Read, Mrs Susan Reboredo-Larrinaga, Miss Ana Rickett, Professor Charles Roberts, Mr Maxwell Rose, Mr Alan AO Rothwell, Mr Donald Ryan, Professor Emeritus Kevin CBE RFD QC Sexton, Mr Michael Shanahan, His Honour Judge John RFD Shepherdson, The Hon Tom QC Short, Professor Peter AM Skala, Mr Steven Stafford, Ms Genevieve Stewart, Mrs Grace Swift, Mr Robert Tam, Ms Eva Thacker, Magistrate Anne Townsend, Ms Odette

Tully, Mrs Elizabeth Verebes, Mrs Helena Vickery, Adjunct Professor Gregory AM Vincent, Dr Peter Wheeler, Ms Kathleen White, Mr Darren White, The Hon. Dr Margaret AO Wilson, The Hon Justice Margaret

Winn, Mr Mark Winn, Mrs Sharon

Wyman, Ms Karen Zakrjevsky, Mr Eugene Zanyat, Mrs Nicole Law School Building Appeal (1989-1991) Aboud, Mr Douglas Allen, Mr Peter Allen, Mr Peter Allens Arthur Robinson


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Anning, Mr Eric Ansell, Mr Shaun Ariens, Mr Joachim Backhouse, Mr William Bain, Mr Robert QC Bank of Queensland Limited Barnes, Judge Eric Batch, Mr John Bates, Mr Kenneth Bayliss, Mr Christopher Bayly, Mr Frank Beirne, Dr Bryan Berceanu, Ms Audrey Biggs, Mr John Boddice, Mr David Bond, Mr John SC Bonney, Mr Herbert Boreham, Mr G Boswell, Mr R Botting, His Hon Judge Hugh Boughen, Mr David Boulton, His Honour Judge Brian Boulton, Mr Kerry Bova, Mrs Angela Bow, Mr Keith Boyd, Ms Helen Bradley, Mr Raymond Bradley, Mr William Brandis, Mr George Brazil, Mr Patrick AO Brennan, The Hon Sir Francis AC KBE Buchanan, Mr Andrew Budd, Mr Thomas Burke, Mr Brian Burrell, Mr Christopher Burton, Mr Peter Byrne, Mr Denis Byrne, Mr Redmond Byrne, The Hon Justice John Callaghan, Mr John Callaghan, Mr Paul Cameron, Mr Kenneth Campbell, The Hon Walter AC QC Carew, Ms Catherine Carter, Mr Reginald Chua, Mr Seck Clacher, Mr Ross Clair, Mr Francis Coe, Mr Michael

Conaghan, Mr Anthony Connolly, The Hon Peter CSI CBE QC Cooney, Mr Christopher Copley, Mr Vincent QC Corrs Chambers Westgarth Coss, Ms L Cotter, Mr Anthony Crawford, Mr Alexander Crommelin, Professor Brian Crowley, Mr James RFD QC Custance, Dr Douglas Daniel, Mr Peter Darby, Mr/s G Darveniza, Mr Martin Daubney, Mr Alfred Martin Davies, Mrs S Davies, The Hon Judge Geoffrey AO Davis, Mr Harry Deeb, Mr George Demack, The Hon Justice Alan AO Devlin, Mr Ralph Diercke, Mr Lawrence Douglas, Mr Richard Douglas, The Hon Justice James QC Dowsett, The Hon Mr Justice John Dreghorn, Ms Linda Drummond, Judge Douglas Dun, Mr Lex Dutney, Mr Andrew Egert, Mr Geoffrey Elliott, Mr John English, Ms Jennifer Eppell, Ms Victoria Estwick, Mr Adrian Feros, Ms Erin Fitzgerald, Mr John Fitzgerald, Mr Michael Fitzgerald, The Hon Judge Gerald AC Floyd, Mr John Fogg, Professor Emeritus Alan Forbes, Mr Roger Ford, Ms Elenne Forde, His Hon Judge Michael Freney, Mr L Fryberg, The Hon Justice George Galligan, Mr Denis Gallimore, Mr John Gaven, Mr Richard Gibbs, The Rt Hon Harry GCMG AC KBE


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Gibney, Mr James Gibney, Ms Marian Gibson, Mr Graham QC Girdis, Dr Nicholas CBE Girdis, Mr Peter Gotterson, Mr Robert QC Graham, Mr Daniel Grainger-Smith, Mr Ross Grant-Taylor, Mr William Green, Mr Murray Greenwood, Justice Andrew Gregory, Mr Robert Griffin, Mr John QC Griffiths, Mr Hugh Gzell, The Hon Justice Ian Hampson, Mr Cedric AO RFD QC Hanger, Mr Richard QC Harch, Mrs Charmaine Harris, Ms Lisa Harrison, Mr Francis QC Hart, Mr William CBE Harwood, Dr Elsie AM Harwood, Mr David Hastie, Mr Peter Heathwood, Miss Ailsa Herd, Mr Brian Higgins, Mr Grant Hodgetts, Mr Ian Hooper, Mr Peter Hooper, Mr Evan Howatson, Mr Graeme Howe, Mr Keith Hulscher, Mr Rolf Hunt & Hunt Hurley, Mr Bryan Jackson, Mrs Pamela Jerrard, The Hon Justice John Jones, Dr Kenneth Keane, The Hon Justice Patrick Keft, Mr Robert Kelly, Mr John Kelly, The Hon Jack QC Kenny, Ms C Keppie, Mr Garth Kimmins, The Hon Judge John Knox, Mr Andrew Lane, Mr Peter Lang, Mr S Lansdown, Mr David Lee, The Hon Mr Justice William

Lennon, Mr Edward QC Lindenmayer, Mr Travis Lippiatt, Mr Frederick Lipshutt, Mr Andrew Logan, Mr John RFD SC Lumb, Mr Stephen Lunney, Mr Mark Lyons, Mr Thomas MacDonald, Mr Kenneth MacGroarty, Mr Neil Mackenzie, The Hon. Justice Kenneth Macrossan, The Hon Justice John A MacSporran, Mr Alan Malcolmson, Mr G Mallesons Stephen Jaques Mann, Mr Gregory Manning, Mr William Marshall, Mrs Kathryn Martin, Miss Joan Martin, Mr Vincent Martin, Mr W Mason, Dr Rosalind Maxwell, Mr Douglas McDonald, Mr Peter McCafferty, Mr Brian McCarthy, Mr A McCullough Robertson McLoughlin, Judge Bernard McNab, Mr Alexander McPherson, The Hon. Justice Bruce CBE Miller, Mr D Millhouse, Professor Alan Minter Ellison Monks, Dr Peter Moore, Mr A Morris, Dr John Morris, Mr Graeme Morrison, Mr Philip QC Morrow, Mr Michael Morton, Mr Richard Moylan, Mr Bernard Muir, Mr Andrew Mulholland, Mr Robert QC Murphy, Lady Murphy, Mr Derek Murray, Mr Leo Nardi, Dr W Newman, Mr Paul Nolan, Mr Desmond Nolan, Mr Maurice


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O'Grady, Mr Gary O'Regan, Dr Robin AM QC O'Reilly, Ms Elizabeth Ousley, Mr Vincent Overland, Dr Alison Ozakula, Mr S Paterson, Mr Gene Peterson, Miss Alayne Pezzutti, Mr J Phillips, Mr Sydney Phillips, Ms June Playford, Mr R Podobnik, Mr Marian Power, Mr Fraser Pratt, Mr Norris Price, Mr J Puri, Associate Professor Kamal Purnell-Webb, Mr Edward Quayle, Dr Charles Queensland Law Society Inc Quinlan, Mr Stephen Quinn, Miss Diane Rankin, Mr William Roberts, Mr I H Roberts, Mr Richard Rogers, Mr Cameron Rothwell, Mr Donald Ryan, The Hon. Professor Emeritus Kevin CBE RFD QC Sampford, Ms Karen Sapuppo, Mr Sebastian Shepherdson, The Hon Tom QC Shine Roche McGowan Skoien, His Honour Judge Nelson Slater, Mr David Smith, His Excellency Henry Abel Smith, Mr Bradley Spender, The Hon Justice Jeffrey Stanfield, Mr Bradley Stephens, Mr Philip Stephenson, Mrs Margaret Stitt, Mr David Stolarek, Mr A Sweeney, Mr Jeremy Swinson, Mr John Thorpe, Mr Andrew Traves, Mr Roger Trickett, Mr James Tziolis, Mrs H

Ulrick, Mr Nicholas Utah Foundation Vandeleur, Mr Vincent OAM Vickery, Adjunct Professor Gregory AM Walker, Professor Geoffrey Wappett, Mr Craig Ware, Mr Roy Watt, Mr Anthony Webb, Mr James Wensley, Adjunct Professor Robert QC Wentworth, Mrs Patricia West, Mr Andrew Westaway, Mr Harold Wheeler, Mr Malcolm White, Mr Colin White, Mr Donald White, Michael QC Wilkey, Dr Ian Williams, The Hon Justice Glen AO Wilson, Mr Steven Wolfe, Her Honour Judge Patricia AO Woods, Mr A Wright, Miss Rebecca Wyvill, Mr Lewis QC Willem C Vis Arbitration Moot (1996) Batch, Mr John Dutney, The Hon Justice Peter Greenwood, The Hon John RFD QC Minter Ellison Morris, Mr Anthony QC Queensland Law Society Inc Wensley, Adjunct Professor Robert QC TC Beirne School of Law Student Benefits (1997) Mann, Professor Jeffrey AM CLESI Support of Seminar Series (1998) BDO Kendalls Malleson Stephen Jaques Bursary (1998) Mallesons Stephen Jaques The Sir Gerard Brennan Chair of Law (1998-1999) Allens Arthur Robinson Ambrose, The Hon. Justice Brian


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Bell, Mr James QC Bill Cooper & Associates Clarke and Kann Cullinane, The Hon Justice Keiran de Jersey, The Hon Paul AC QC Demack, The Hon Justice Alan AO Derrington, Adjunct Professor The Hon Desmond QC Douglas, The Hon Justice James Doyle, Mr Shane SC Ebsworth & Ebsworth Fryberg, The Hon Justice Henry Gibbs, The Rt Hon Harry GCMG AC KBE Gilshenan & Luton Griffin, Mr John QC Halligan, Mr Brian Harris, Ms Catherine Helman, The Hon Mr Justice John Hiley, Mr Graham QC Howatson, Mr Graeme Hulscher, Mr Rolf Keane, The Hon Justice Patrick Lennon, Mr Edward QC Logan, Mr John RFD QC Mallesons Stephen Jaques Mann, Professor Jeffrey AM McInnes Wilson McLoughlin, Judge Bernard Minter Ellison Chair in Law Morrison, Mr Philip QC Mulholland, Mr Robert QC Mullins, The Hon Justice Debra Murphy Schmidt Solicitors Peterson, Mr Howarth AO CBE Pincus, The Hon Justice William Queensland Law Society Inc Quinlan, Mr Stephen Ratnapala, Professor Suri Robertson, Mr James Rose, Mr Alan AO Ryan, The Hon Professor Emeritus Kevin CBE RFD QC Sheahan, Mr John Shepherdson, The Hon Tom QC Slater, Mr David Thomas, The Hon Justice James Thynne & Macartney Vandeleur, Mr Vincent OAM

Vickery, Associate Professor Gregory AM Wensley, Adjunct Professor Robert QC White, The Hon Justice Margaret Williams, The Hon Justice Glen AO Moot Court Restoration Appeal (2000) Allens Arthur Robinson Brennan, The Hon Sir Francis AC KBE Clayton Utz Douglas, The Hon Justice James Fryberg, The Hon Justice George Mann, Professor Jeffrey AM McCullough Robertson McInnes Wilson Mullins, The Hon Justice Debra Phillips Fox Quinlan, Mr Stephen Ratnapala, Professor Suri Rose, Mr Alan AO Ryan, Professor Emeritus Kevin CBE RFD QC Tarr, Professor Anthony Vickery, Associate Professor Gregory AM Wensley, Professor Robert QC White, Associate Professor Michael QC Williams, The Hon Justice Glen AO Moot Court Scholarships (2000) Allens Arthur Robinson T.C. Beirne School of Law Mooting Program Allsop, The Hon. Justice James AO Anwar, Mr Faheem Carney, Professor Gerard Derrington, Professor Sarah & Mr Roger Derrington QC Derrington, Ms Stephanie Dibbs Baker Dowsett, The Hon. Justice John AM Jones, Matthew Kiefel, The Hon. Justice Susan AC Le Plastrier, Brett Williams, The Hon. Glen AO QC Jessup International Law Moot Corrs Chambers Westgarth Story, Mr John Story AO


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Barristers Services Pty Ltd Centre for Maritime Law (1999-2002) McCullough Robertson T C Beirne Abroad Scholarships (2002) Allens Arthur Robinson LES ANZ Prize in Intellectual Property Transactions (2003) Licensing Executive Society of Australia and New Zealand School of Law Library (1991-2004) Graham, Mr Daniel Hulscher, Mr Rolf Mann, Professor Jeffrey AM McCracken, His Hon Judge Alan Westaway, Mr Harold White, The Hon Justice Margaret Bequest of Ms Odette J Townsend (2004) Townsend, Ms Odette J The Mooting and Alternative Dispute Resolution Program (2003-2006) Allens Arthur Robinson Allsop, Justice James Derrington, Dr Sarah Dibbs Abbott Stillman Dowsett, The Hon Mr Justice John Kiefel, The Hon Justice Susan Minter Ellison The Maritime Law Association of Australia and New Zealand White, The Hon Justice Margaret TC Beirne School of Law Scholarship Endowment (2005- ) Allsop, The Hon Justice James AO Arnold, Miss Catherine Backhouse, Mr William Bain, Mr Robert QC Bartley, Ms Carolyn Batsakis, Mr Andrew Biggs, Mr John Bird, Miss Helen Boddice, The Hon Justice David

Bolger, Mr Julian Bradley, Mr Thomas QC Brodie, Miss Lurley Brown, Mr Simon Byrne, The Hon Justice John RFD Callinan, Mr James Comino, Dr Victoria Connolly, Mr Kerry Cool, Mrs Siobhan Cornack, Ms Sheryl Crommelin, Professor Brian AO Cunningham, Ms Heather de Jersey, The Hon Paul AC QC De Laat, Ms Felicia Derrington, Professor Sarah & Mr Roger Derrington QC Dreghorn, Ms Linda Drew, Mr Michael Dyer, Mr Simon Evans, Mr Peter Forde, His Honour Judge Michael Gold, Professors Judith & Edgar Gordon, Mr Vincent Heading, Mr James Heilbronn, Mr Kerry Herlihy, Mr James Hinson, Mr Mark SC Holden, Mr Stephen Howatson, Mr Graeme Hunt, The Hon David AO QC Irwin, His Honour Judge Marshall Jacobson, The Hon Justice Peter Katter, Dr Dominic Kiefel, The Hon. Justice Susan AC Leibinger, Mr Reginald Lotus Capital Lyons, Mr Peter QC Maher, Miss Christine Maher, Ms Christine Mann, Professor Jeffrey AM Marini, Mr Alessandro Massang, Mr Jaime McAulay, Mr Jason McVeigh, Ms Jennifer Millhouse, Adjunct Professor Alan Muir, The Hon Justice John Munro, Reverend Howard Newman, Mr Paul O'Regan, Dr Robin AM QC Parcell, Mr Wayne PSM


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Philippides, The Hon Justice Anthe Pincus, The Hon Justice William Priestly, Ms Dinah Price, Mr J Rae, Ms Kathryn Schmidt, Mrs Edwina Scott, Mr Michael Siracusa, Mr Joseph Spender, Ms Fiona Stack, Mr Howard Stewart, Mr Michael Sutton, Mr Charles Tully, Mrs Elizabeth Vaggelas, Dr Karen Vandeleur, Mr Vincent OAM Warnick , The Hon Justice Bernard Weaver, Mr James Wensley, Dr Robert QC Westaway, Mr Harold White, Mr Eugene White, The Hon Justice Margaret and Dr Michael QC Williams, The Hon Justice Glen AO Wilson, The Hon Justice Margaret TC Beirne School of Law Pro Bono Program Allen, Mr James Botting, His Honour Judge Hugh Cairney, Ms Megan Carney, Professor Gerard Dennings, Ms Susan Forbes, Miss Emma Frisby, Ms Susan Garvey, Ms Sarah Gesling, Mr Clive OAM Goldman, Mr Gary Herlihy, Mr James Irwin, His Honour Judge Marshall Kenny, Ms Catherine King, Mr Brian Lehmann-Bird, Mrs Heidi Marini, Mr Alessandro McAulay, Mr Jason Newton, Mr Christopher Pincus, Mr Cecil William QC Priestley, Ms Dinah Sexton, Mr Michael Stewart, Mrs Grace Swift, Mr Robert OAM OBE

Swift, Mrs, L Walker, Mr Robert White, Mr Eugene Williams, The Hon Glen AO QC TC Beirne Forgan Smith Redevelopment (2015 - ) Donations received by 30.6.16 only. Ashton, Mr Ronald QC Barber, Mr Raymond Beaumont, Mrs Inma CP Consulting Davies, Adjunct Professor Iyla Derrington, The Hon Dr Desmond QC Doyle, Mr Shane QC Feros, Ms Erin Gill, Dr Stewart OAM Greig, John Gzell, The Hon Ian AM QC Johnstone, Mr Christopher Katter, Dr Dominic Lane, Mr Peter Logan, The Hon Justice John RFD Lücke, Professor Horst AO Mackenzie, The Hon Kenneth QC McMurdo, The Hon Justice Margaret AC Muir, The Hon John QC Roberts, Mr Neil Story, Mr John AO & Mrs Georgina Story Story, Mr Thomas Tanna, Ms Catherine White, The Hon Dr Margaret AO Wilson, The Hon Margaret QC Plus two donors who wished to remain anonymous

Bequests Estate of Miss Katherine Cecie Garrick (1922) Estates of Miss Edith Sophie Doris Ruthning and Miss Valerie Emilie Marianne Ruthning (1959) Estate of Emeritus Professor Herbert John Wilkinson (1963) Estate of Miss Margaret Mary McCawley (1994) Estate of Miss Odette Jacqueline Townsend (2004)


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Estate of The Hon Robert John Bulley (2013)

Subject Prizes and Awards

Allens Prize for Overall Excellence; Allens Prize in Company Law: Allens (2001 – 2016) AMPLA Prize in Mining Environmental Regulation: Resources and Energy law Association (AMPLA) (2005-2006) Andrea Bowler Memorial Prize for Family Law; Family Law Practitioners' Association Queensland (1999 – 2015) Australian Taxation Office Prize in Tax Law: Australian Taxation Office (2010 – 2015) Australian Workers' Union Prize: Australian Workers Union (2003 – 2008) Corrs Chambers Westgarth Prize: Corrs Chambers Westgarth (2011 – 2015) Gadens Prize For The Law Of Remedies: Gadens (2011 – 2015) Gilshenan and Luton Prize in Administrative Law: Gilshenan and Luton (2001 – 2008) Harmers Workplace Lawyers Prize for Research Excellence in Labour Law: Harmers Workplace Lawyers (2009 – 2011) Harrisons Law Prize in Succession Law: Harrisons Law (2015 – 2016) Herbet Smith Freehills Prize in Law: Herbert Smith Freehills (2011 – 2015)

Howden Saggers Lawyers Prize in Criminal Procedure: Howden Saggers Lawyers (2010 – 2015) Janine McMaster-Kirkwood Prize in Income Tax law: Mr Ross Kirkwood (2014 – 2015) KPMG Prize in Law: KPMG (2002 – 2009) Luke Filei Prize in Asian Legal Systems: Mr Luke Filei (2014 – 2015) Maria de Donatis Memorial Prize in Corporate Law: Barry & Nilsson Lawyers (2010) McCullough Robertson Endowed Law Scholarship for Indigenous Students/McCullough Robertson Prizes: McCullough Robertson (1999 – 2016) McInnes Wilson Lawyers Prize in Administrative and Public Law: McInnes Wilson Lawyers (2010 – 2015) Minter Ellison Prize in Law: Minter Ellison (2005 – 2016) Queensland Environmental Law Association Prize in Environmental Law: Queensland Environmental Law Association (2002 – 2012) R.J. Bulley 1960 Prize: The Hon Robert Bulley (2009 – 2012) Robertson O'Gorman Prize in Criminal Law: Robertson O’Gorman (2014 – 2016) Sir Samuel Griffith Prize in Law: Mr Anthony McKinnon (2002 – 2008) Tax Institute Prizes in Law: The Tax Institute (2001 – 2005) The Queensland Environmental Law Association Inc Prize: Queensland


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Environmental Law Assoc Inc (2002-2006) Virgil Power Prize: Mr Andrew Douglas (2008) The Virgil Power prize was established in 1946 in memory of the late Justice Virgil Power by the beneficiaries of his estate. Seven donors contributed 50 pounds each and many generous people have donated since. The prize is awarded to the student with the highest overall marks in their Level 3 and 4 courses. Dormer George Andrews 1946 Walter Benjamin Campbell 1947 Colin Milliner 1948 Andrew Neil Dutney 1949 Thomas Parslow 1950 Leo Joseph Murray 1951 Patrick Brazil 1952 and William Joseph Cuthbert 1952 (joint award) Graeme Oriel Morris 1953 Francis Patrick McLaughlin

1954 James Kavanagh Armitage 1955 James Thomas Gibney 1956 George Ernest Lambert 1957 Cecil William Pincus 1958 John Montague Morris 1959 No Award 1960 Peter John Hocker 1961 Evangelos Sotirios Cominos 1962 John Trevor Leckie 1963 David Francis Jackson 1964 Donald Alexander Hurwood 1965 Peter George Fitzpatrick 1966 James Joseph Clifford 1967 Adrian Heyworth-Smith 1968 Paul Desmond Finn 1969 Denis James Galligan 1970 Ross Noel Barber 1971

Ronald Shaw Ashton 1972 Martin Douglas Kreiwaldt 1973 Richard John Vann 1974 Patrick Anthony Keane 1975 Vincent Frank Peters Green 1976 Frank Tenison Brennan 1977 Arthur Bradley Vann 1978 Patrick Laurence O'Shea 1979 Marian Frances Gibney 1980 Andrew Buchanan 1981 Phillip Roger Mills 1982 Dale Stuart Brackin 1983 Roslyn Gay Atkinson 1984 William Swain Roberts 1985 Joachim Dietrich 1986 Anthony Emanuel Cassimatis 1987 Liam Kelly 1988 Debra Joy Lamb 1989 Michelle Louise Healy 1990 Kelli Suzanne Longworth 1991 Andrew William Rankin 1992 Elisabeth Mae Bowes 1993 Tanya Louise Smith 1994 Robert Desmond Dann 1995 Andrea Louise Monks 1996 Scott Burnett Hooper 1997 Kate Raymond 1998 Scott Paul Hirst 1999 Elizabeth Anne Turnbull 2000 Kate Parlett 2001 Naomi Hawkins 2002 Emma Janette Mottarelly 2003 (joint award) Matthew Edward Couper 2003 and Simon Ray Eggins 2004 (joint award) Michael Thomas Fletcher 2004 (joint award) Simon Quinn 2005 Melissa Erin Swain 2006 Camille Maree Seldon 2007 Jessica Isobel Howley 2008 Matthew Doyle 2009


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Angus O'Brien 2010 Joseph O'Shea 2011 Ffion Clare Whaley 2012

Nicholas James Derrington 2013 Priscilla Jane Mackay 2014 Amanda Wu 2015

First compiled by the UQ Development Office and Nicholas Luke. Updated by Keilin Anderson and Dr Margaret Hammer (UQ Advancement) in 2016. Information regarding the Virgil Power Prize provided by Stephen Holden, Senior Manager, Advancement, UQ.


About the Author and Research Assistant Michael White Dr Michael White OAM QC FRHSQ (B.Com, LLB (UQ), PhD (Bond), Grad.Cert.in Higher Ed., LLD (UQ)) was in the RAN in his early career as a seagoing officer. After resigning and doing law he was a barrister for 24 years and then became an academic as the foundation executive director of the Centre for Maritime Law (now the Marine and Shipping Law Unit) in the TC Beirne School of Law. He is now an Adjunct Professor, is a guest lecturer in maritime law courses and regularly publishes in maritime law and in history. He and his wife live in Brisbane and they have three adult children.

Michael White

Source: UQ Photo archives; personal photograph Keilin Anderson Keilin Anderson was educated at Somerville House school and is a UQ student doing LLB and BA degrees, majoring in her BA in Political Science and French. She has represented the Law School in the Michael Kirby Contracts Moot, International Maritime Law Arbitration Moot and in 2017 will compete in the Phillip C Jessup International Law Moot.

Keilin Anderson Source: Personal photograph

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Index This index has been compiled by Helen Jeffcoat, for which the author is most grateful. Page numbers within Appendixes are shown in brackets, The list of all UQ Law Graduates, under their year of graduation, is in Appendix X. The number is too numerous to enter up in this Index. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Moot 94,98 Academic Course Appraisal Committee 78 ACCLAT See Australian Centre for Commerce, Law and Tax ACIPA See Australasian Centre for Intellectual Property in Agriculture ACPL See Australian Centre for Private Law Admission Rules 78 Advanced Land Headquarters, Southwest Pacific 22 AIFCL See Australian Institute of Foreign and Comparative Law ALEC see Australian Legal Education Council Allens Prize in Company Law Appendix X(239) Allens Prize for Overall Excellence Appendix X(239) ALSA See Australian Law Students’ Association 69 AMPLA Prize in Mining Appendix X(239) Andrea Bowler Memorial Prize for Family Law Appendix X(239) Anderson, Harry Ross 39 Anderson, Keilin v11, 96, about the author (1) Applegarth, Peter 87 ARLP – see Asylum and Refugee Law Project Aroney, Nicholas 99 Articled Clerks 42,43,81 Asylum and Refugee Law Project (ARLP) 99 AUC See Australian Universities Commission Australasian Centre for Intellectual Property in Agriculture (ACIPA) 61 Australian and New Zealand Air Law Moot 93,94,98 Australian Centre for Private Law (ACPL) 86 Australian Centre for Commerce, Law and Tax (ACCLAT) 62 Australian Institute of Foreign and Comparative Law (AIFCL) 61 Australian Law Students’ Association 69 Australian Legal Education Council (ALEC) 78 Australian Post Graduate Award Scholarship Appendix VI(219) Australian Taxation Office Prize in Tax Law Appendix X(239) Australian Universities Commission (AUC) 41,43 See also Martin Report Australian Universities Law Schools Association 40 Australian Workers’ Union Prize Appendix X(239) Avery, George Douglas 29-30 B Baxter, Richard 94 Beaumont, Inma 107


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Beirne, Thomas Charles 9,10,15-17, Appendix X(231) BEL See Business, Economics and Law Faculty Bell, James 106-107 Bennett, Kane 98 Beyond Eagle Street Program 73 Bick, Una 12,17-18 see also Prentice, Una Billings, Peter 93,94,97,99 Bjelke-Petersen, J 48,55,55 Black, Ann 62,99 Blair, William 8 Blair Fund 63 Blamey, General Thomas 22-23 Boileau, Camille 95 Brailsford, Tim 62 Brennan, Gerard 52,66 Brunei High Court Judges Appendix VIII Bulley, RJ Prize Appendix X(239) Business, Economics and Law Faculty See Faculty of BVN Architecture 102 C CALD See Council of Law Deans Callinan, Ian 52 Cambridge Australia Trust Scholarship Appendix VI(218) Campbell, Walter 47,53-55,57,60,66 Cappa, Clare 99 Carter, Reginald 12,40 Carney, Gerard 76,81,89,90,95,92 Cassimatis, Nicholas 69,99 Castan Centre Human Rights Moot 93 Catsoulis, Andrew 107 Catts, Ruth 69 Caxton Legal Centre 88,89 Centre for Maritime Law (CML) 61,84,95,Appendix X(237), About the Author 1 Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law (CPICL) 61,86 Chalk, Emily 94 Chief Justices Appendix IX Clark Ryan, Hugo 95 CLESI Support Seminar Series 1998 Appendix X(235) Clinical Legal Education 88 CML See Centre for Maritime Law Coates, Joanne 68 Cohn, Lisa 68 Colditz, Stephen 69 Commonwealth Scholarships 39 Commonwealth Scholarship & Fellowship Plan UK Award Appendix VI(218) Connolly, Peter D 40,65


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Continuing Professional Development 88 Cooper, John 106 Cooper, Pope 2 CPD See Continuing Professional Development Corrs Chambers Westgarth Prize Appendix X(239) Council of Law Deans (CALD) 79 CPICL See Centre for Public International & Comparative Law Cross, FT 40 Crow, Jonathan 99 Cullity, Finian 98 Cumbrae-Stewart, Francis 4,5 D Dargie, William 66 David Jackson Dinner 92,97 Deane, William 68 Deans 76 Appendix II Dennings, Randal 87,91 Derrington, Sarah 61,81,85,87,89,95,96,98,101 Devereux, John 76 Doctor of Laws 84 Doctor of Philosophy 64,84 Domestic Violence Action Centre Ipswich 87 Donovan, Brian 102 Douglas, Andrew Appendix X(240) Douglas, Richard 90 Drummond, Catherine 95 Dunn, Lex 12 Dunn, Muriel 52 E Eckersley, Damian 24,102 Economics and Law Research Unit (ELRU) 62 EDO See Environmental Defenders Office Edwards, Llew 68 Education Commission Queensland 1 ELRU See Economics and Law Research Unit Ensby, Julian 69 Environmental Defenders Office (Qld) 88 Equity and Diversity Award 99 Exchanges – Overseas 89 F Faculty of Business, Economics and Law 63 Fairweather, Karen 99 Family Court Judges Appendix VIII Fawcett, Dominic 96 Federal Court Judges Appendix VIII Feros, Erin 107


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Fiji Court Judges Appendix VIII Forbes, John 66,67 Ford, Lisa 68 Forgan Smith Building 21,25,44,59,67,85,99,103, Appendix X(238) Forrest, Craig 99 Forsaith, Cameron 69 Frank Knox Memorial Scholarship Appendix VI(218) Freda Bage Three Year Fellowship Appendix VI(220) French, Robert 77 Fry, Thomas 21,40 Fulbright Scholarships Appendix VI(218) Fulcher, Jonathan 90 Future of Tertiary Education in Australia See Martin Report G Gadens Prize for the Law of Remedies Appendix X(239) Gates’ Foundation PhD Scholarship Appendix VI(219) Garrick Bequest 6,13

Chair of Law 5,7,10,36, Appendix X(231) Plaque 13

Garrick, James 13,14 Garrick, Katherine 6,14, Appendix X(231) Gaskell, Nick 76 George, Zachary 98 Gibbs, Harry T 12,50-53,55,64,66,67,70,93 Gibson, AJ 4 Gilshenan and Luton Prize in Administrative Law Appendix X(239) Go8 91 Governor Generals Appendix IX Governors Appendix IX Grantham, Ross 76,90 Griffith, Samuel 2,Appendix X(239) Group of 8 See Go8 H Hafeez-Baig, Jaamae 96 Hampson, CEK 40 Harkness Fellowship Appendix VI(219) Harmers Workplace Lawyers Prize for Research Excellence in Labour Law Appendix X(239) Harrison, Lister 49 Harrison, Walter 15,36,38-39,48-50 Harrisons Law Prize in Succession Law Appendix X(239) Head of Law School Appendix II Hedges, Robert Yorke 10-11,35 High Court Judges Appendix VII Hinchy, Russell 99


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Hoj, Peter 80,100 Holdsworth, WS 92,97 Holmes, Catherine v11 Homeless Persons’ Legal Clinic 88 Hong Kong Judges Appendix VIII Honours 82-83 Howden Saggers Lawyers Prize in Criminal Procedure Appendix X(239) I International Air Law Moot 94 International Commercial Online Dispute Resolution Competition 70 International Maritime Arbitration Moot 69,70,95,98 International Negotiation Competition 70 J Jackson, David 92,93 James, Nickolas 99 Janine McMaster-Kirkwood Prize in Income Tax Law Appendix X(239) JATL See Justice and the Law Society JD See Juris Doctor Degree JD Storey Building 46,99,103 Jessup Moot See Philip C Jessup International Moot de Jersey, Paul v,67 John Macrossan Memorial Library Appendix X(231) John Marshall International Moot 69 Jolly, WA 7 Juris Doctor Degree 64,83-84 Justice and the Law Society (JATL) 72,Appendix IV K Karcic, Amina 96 Keane, Patrick 107 KPMG Prize in Law Appendix X(239) L LACC See Law Admissions Consultative Committee Ladlay, Andrew 102 Landops 22 Law Admissions Consultative Committee 77,79,81 Law Ball 71 Law Beyond the Border 73 Law Library 1990, opening 59 2000, refurbishment 63

Bequests Appendix X(237) Collection 44 Deficiencies 48

Fund raising Appendix X(238) Harrison, WNL 48-5


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Inadequacies 43-45 John Macrossan Memorial Library 1949 Appendix X(231)

Mezzanine level 45 Name 50 New teaching methods 2017 85 Protests, 1978 48 Refurbishment 57-60,63,100-103 School of Law Library (1991-2004) bequests Appendix X(238) “Study In” 1982 58 LPAB See Law Practice Admissions Board Law Practice Admissions Board (LPAB) 82 Law Revue 72 Law School, University of Queensland See TC Beirne School of Law Law School Building Appeal (1989-1991) Appendix X(223) Lee, Lisa 95 Legal Skills Competitions 98 Leiden Sarin International Air Law Moot 98 LES ANZ Prize in Intellectual Property 2003 Appendix X(237) Lewins, Kate 61,95 Library See Law Library Lilley, Charles 13 Lindsay, Nathan 94 Lionel Murphy Post Graduate Scholarship Appendix VI(219) LLB Guide 72 LLD See Doctor of Laws Lucke, Horst 78 Luke, Nick 69 Luke Filei Prize in Asian Legal Systems Appendix X(239) Lumb, Darrell 55 M MacDonald, Ken 60 MacGregor, William 2 Macrossan, John M 66 Macrossan Memorial Library See Law Library Malleson Stephen Jaques Bursary 1998 Appendix X(235) Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot 70 Mangan, John 62 Mann, Jeff 62,64,65 Manning Street Project 87 Maria de Donatis Memorial Prize in Corporate Law Appendix X(239) Marine and Shipping Law Unit (MASLU) 61,87 Marquette University Law School 62 Martin Report 41-43 MASLU See Marine and Shipping Law Unit Master of Legal Science 64,83 Masters Degree by Coursework 84


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Masters of International Commercial Law 83 Matthews, Thomas G 51 Mawby, Abigael 95 McCabe, Bernard 90 McCaughey Fund 6 McCawley, TW 6 McCosker, Sarah 67 McCullough Robertson Endowed Law Scholarship for Indigenous Students Appendix X(239) McGarvie, Richard 78 McGarvie Report 78 McGill, AD 15,35,50 McInnes Wilson Lawyers Prize in Administrative and Public Law Appendix X(239) McKenna, John 65,90 McMillan, Kathryn 90 McNab, Alexander 25-26 McPherson, Bruce 84 Michie, BD 4 Michie Building 44 Minter Ellison Prize in Law Appendix X(239) Moens, Gabriel 62,68,97,99 Monash Scholarship Appendix VI(219) Moot Court 64-65,101 Moot Court Restoration Appeal 2000 Appendix X(236) Moot Court Scholarships Appendix X(236) Mooting 93-97 Alternative Dispute Resolution Program Appendix X(237) Bequests Appendix X(238) Sir Harry Gibbs Moot Court 53 Sir Harry Gibbs National Constitutional Moot Competition 53 TC Beirne School of Law Mooting Program Appendix X(237) Moratorium, Student 1970 47 Morrison, Lionel 12 N National Family Law Moot 69,70 Noot – Negotiating Outcomes On Time Competition 93 O Obiter 72 O’Donovan, Jim 58 O’Shea, Paul 58 Old Government House 3 Ormrod Committee 1971 78 P Pace, Harrold 33-34 Pandora’s Box 73 Parker, Chester, 27-28


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Peacock, Darren 68 Pearce Report 58 PhD See Doctor of Philosophy Philip C Jessup International Law Moot 69,70,94,95,98,104, Appendix X(236) Philp, RF 40 PJ McDermott Memorial Prize 51 PLEAT See Practical Legal Education and Training Course PLT See Practical Legal Training PNG Judges Appendix VIII PNG Supreme and National Courts of Justice 88 Practical Legal Education and Training Course (PLEAT) 64 Practical Legal Training (PLT) 64,80-81 Practitioners in Residence 89 Prentice, Una 12,17 see also Bick, Una Priestly, HJ 4 Priestley, LJ 78 Priestley 11 78, 82 Priestley 12, 81 Prison Law Clinic 88 Prisoners’ Legal Service 88 Prizes Appendix VI, X Pro Bono Programs 87,Appendix X(238) Puri, Kamal 64 Q QAI See Queensland Advocacy Inc QPILCH See Queensland Public Interest Law Clearing House Queensland Advocacy Inc 88 Queensland Environmental Law Assoc Prize Appendix X(239) Queensland Environmental Law Assoc Prize in Environmental Law Appendix X(239) Queensland Public Interest Law Clearing House (QPILCH) 88 R RAILS See Refugee and Immigration Legal Service Rawlings, Peter 67 Red Cross International Humanitarian Law Moot Competition 69,70 Rees-Murphy, Leo Refugee and Immigration Legal Service (RAILS) 88 Report of the Martin Committee on the Future of Tertiary Education in Australia

See Martin Report Report on Legal Knowledge Required for Admission to Practice 78 Res Ipsa 72 Research Clusters 86 Research Higher Degrees 84 Rhodes Scholarships 65, Appendix VI Rickett, Charles 76 Riddel, Robert 59 Rigby, James 98


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Ritchie, Deputy Vice Chancellor 45 RJ Bulley 1960 Prize Appendix X(239) Robertson O’Gorman Prize Appendix X(239) Roe, RH 3 Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholarship Appendix VI(219) Ryan, Kevin 14,39, 65 Ryan, Soraya 90 Ryan, TJ 49 S Sabeshan, Prashanth 90 Samuels, Gordon 78 Scholarships Appendix VI Sher, Michael 68 Shine Lawyers Torts Moot 69, 98 Skala, Steve 107 Sir Gerard Brennan Chair of Law (19998-1999) Appendix X(235) Sir Harry Gibbs Constitutional Law Moot 70,94 Sir Harry Gibbs Lecture 70 Sir Harry Gibbs Moot Court 64, 66 Sir Harry Gibbs National Constitutional Moot Competition 53,69,98 Sir Robert Menzies Memorial Scholarship in Law Appendix VI(218) Sir Samuel Griffith Prize in Law Appendix X(239) Sofronoff, Walter 90 Solicitor’s Admission Rules 43,50 Solomon Island Judges Appendix VIII Springbok Rugby Tour 47 Stephenson, Margaret 99 Story, John 103,104 Story, JD 5,103 Story, Tom 104 Student Strategy, UQ 80 Stumm, Charles 30-31 Supreme Court Judges Appendix VIII Supreme Court of Queensland Library 53 Sutton, Kenneth 55 Sykes, Edward 15,39 T Tarr, Tony 62,64,76 Tax Institute Prize Appendix X(239) Taylor, Monica 87 TC Beirne Abroad Scholarship 2002 Appendix X(237) TC Beirne Forgan Smith Redevelopment (2015) 103, Appendix X(238) TC Beirne School of Law Admission requirements 78-80

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Bequests Appendix X, Appendix X(238) Board, Law Faculty 40,5465 Building Appeal 1989-1991 Appendix X(232) Centres of Excellence 61-62 Clinical Legal Education 88 Curriculim 38-42 Donors 60,Appendix X Exchanges with overseas law schools 89 Faculty of Arts 5 Faculty of Law Capital Fund Appendix X(231) Finances 91 Five year degree 38 Graduates Appendix I Merger into BEL 63 New teaching method 2017 85-86 Overseas exchanges 62,89 Practitioners in Residence 89 Prizes and Awards Appendix X Refurbishment 100 Research and course development 64-65 Seventieth Anniversary 2006 65 Staff Appendix II Student numbers 90 Subject Prizes and Awards Appendix X(239) TC Beirne Donation 15-17 Teaching excellence 98 Teaching methods 76-80

TC Beirne School of Law Annual Appeal Appendix X(231) TC Beirne School of Law Mooting Program Appendix X(236) TC Beirne School of Law Pro Bono Program Appendix X(238) TC Beirne School of Law Scholarship Endowment Appendix X(237) TC Beirne School of Law Student Benefits 1997 Appendix X(235) Tarlo, Hyman 15,41 Tenants Queensland 88 TEQSA See Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Act Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Act 2011 (Cth) 79 Townsend, Odette Appendix X(237) U Uniform Admission Requirements 78,81 University Act 1870 (Qld) 1 University of British Columbia 62 University of Queensland

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Senate 10,21,54,102 St Lucia campus 34-35 University of the Year 1998 63 WW2 19-37

University of Queensland Law Graduates Association 91 University of Queensland Law Journal 37,52 University of Queensland Law Society (UQLS) 52,69,70-72,97,Appendix III University of Queensland Post Graduate Research Scholarship Appendix VI(219) University of Queensland Regiment 47 University of Queensland Student Strategy 2016-2020 80 University of Queensland Union Appendix V UQLS See University of Queensland Law Society V Valedictorians Appendix VII Valedictory Law Dinner 71 Victorian Admission Rules 78 Virgil Power Prize Appendix 54, X(240) Voiceless, Australian – New Zealand Moot on Animal Law 93 W Walker, Geoffrey 60, 64 Wanstall, Charles 66 White, Margaret 97,104-105 White, Michael WD 61,87,97, Appendix I(108) Wigs at the Bar 73 William C Vis Commercial Arbitration Moot 68,69,94,96,97,Appendix X(235) Williams, Glen 65,91,97 Williams, Zak 102 Wilson, Brian 57 Wilson Architects 63 Wishart, Dugald 68 WLSA See Women Law Students Association Women Law Students Association (WLSA) 72,Appendix IV Women and the Law Society (WATL) Appendix IV WW2 19-37

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