Achievements
The Honourable Justice Michael Kirby, AC, CMG was in elected President of the Australian Section of the International Commission of Jurists (ASICJ). In January , Justice Kirby was also elected to ICJ Geneva&#;s Executive Committee and in he was elected that Committee&#;s Chairman. Finally, in , Justice Kirby was elected President of the World Body.
In he was awarded the Australian Human Rights Medal. In , he was named Laurette of the UNESCO Prize for Human Rights Education. In he was named co-winner of the Gruber Justice Prize. In he received the inaugural Australian Privacy Medal. The honorary degrees of Doctor of Letters, Doctor of Laws and Doctor of the University have been conferred on him by universities in Australia and overseas.
The Honourable Michael Kirby AC CMG is also heavily engaged in international arbitrations, domestic mediations and teaching law. He is an Honorary Professor at 12 Australian and overseas universities.
The Honourable Justice Michael Kirby, AC, CMG, is one of a small number of High Court judges with a public profile outside the rarified atmosphere of the judicial system. While this high profile is merited by his remarkable achievements (which you can read about at Wikipedia), it is probably also true to say that is also partly due to undeserved notoriety.
Notoriety is not a word one would usually apply to a High Court judge, and certainly not to a judge who dedicated his career to protecting human rights. Justice Kirby is a good man, and an honorable man. The unjustified notoriety derives from the appalling behaviour of others who made scurrilous allegations against him under parliamentary privilege, and although these have been retracted, nevertheless it is pleasing to see that Daryl Dellora has written this biography to set the record straight in a straightforward, highly accessible style that will maximise its chances of being widely read.
A gifted, reclusive student, Michael Kirby was a product of the State Education system in NSW, who went on to graduate from Sydney University with a Bachelor of Arts, a Bachelor of Laws, a Bachelor of Economics and a Master of Laws w
Michael Kirby, Law, Love and Life
Notoriety is not a word one would usually apply to a High Court judge, and certainly not to a judge who dedicated his career to protecting human rights. Justice Kirby is a good man, and an honorable man. The unjustified notoriety derives from the appalling behaviour of others who made scurrilous allegations against him under parliamentary privilege, and although these have been retracted, nevertheless it is pleasing to see that Daryl Dellora has written this biography to set the record straight in a straightforward, highly accessible style that will maximise its chances of being widely read.
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Review of A MATTER OF CONSCIENCE: SIR RONALD WILSON, Antonio Buti ()
Kirby, Michael "A Matter of Conscience: Sir Ronald Wilson, by Antonio Buti" [] SydLawRw 13; () 31(2) Sydney Law Review
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HON MICHAEL KIRBY AC CMG[&#;]
This biography of Sir Ronald Wilson, Justice of the High Court of Australia between and , presents the reader with two theories about the subject's life.
The first theory is expounded by the media columnist and speech writer, Christopher Pearson. He suggests that Wilson was basically a man of very angry passions. He kept them under wraps whilst serving as a judge and as President of the Assembly of the Uniting Church of Australia. But, other than that, he was given to unacceptable anger and zeal. Upon this theory, Wilson exhibited the latter emotions as a fearsome Crown Prosecutor, seeing himself as the &#;avenging angel&#; of society, basically unconcerned with the innocence of those whom his forensic skills could persuade juries to
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