Product Description
In 2000, the NSW Bar Association established an annual lecture in honour of Sir Maurice Byers Kt CBE QC, Commonwealth Solicitor-General 1973-1983; this volume contains the first 12 lectures, 2000-2012. Each lecture is introduced by Justices Nye Perram and Rachel Pepper who discuss the background to the lecture and developments which have taken place since it was delivered. In addition, there is a short collection of thoughts by Sir Maurice himself together with some further pieces.
The Byers Lectures
Sir Gerard Brennan AC KBE QC
Strengths and perils: The Bar at the turn of the century
MH McHugh AC QC
Does Chapter III of the Constitution protect substantive as well as procedural rights?
Professor Leslie Zines AO
Legalism, realism and judicial rhetoric in constitutional law
Keith Mason AC
What is wrong with top-down legal reasoning?
W M C Gummow AC
Statutes
D F Jackson AM QC
The implications of the Constitution
J D Heydon AC
Theories of constitutional interpretation: a taxonomy
Dame Sian Elias GNZM PC
Judicial review today
Stephen Gageler SC
Beyond the text: A vision of the structure and function of the Constitution
David Bennett AC QC
Rules that ought not to be applied: The ultimate iconoclasm
J J Spigelman AC
Truth and the Law
Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers KG PC
Dictator or Dialogue? The relationship between the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom and the European Court of Justice
Individual pieces
Sir Anthony Mason AC KBE QC
Eulogy for Sir Maurice
T E F Hughes AO QC
Obituary for Sir Maurice
Sir Maurice Byers Kt CBE QC
An Advocate’s View of the Judiciary
Sir Maurice Byers Kt CBE QC
Speech on the occasion of his receiving a Knighthood
Sir Maurice Byers Kt CBE QC
Speech in response on the occasion of a dinner given in his honour on 17 June 1994