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The Legal Profession and the Defence Forces:
Historical Connections
UTS, 24 March 2012


Sir Victor Windeyer, judge of the High Court of Australia. Image by permission of the National Library of Australia: vn3116745


Brigadier WJ Victor Windeyer DSO.
Norman Brown, National War Memorial:
http://cas.awm.gov.au/item/016473

Jointly sponsored by the Faculty of Law, UTS, the Francis Forbes Society for Australian Legal History and the New South Wales Bar Association

Speakers include:

  • The Hon Tom Bathurst, Chief Justice of New South Wales who will open the Symposium
  • The Hon Justice Logan, Federal Court, on Queensland Barristers in the Second World War
  • Professor George Parsons, Macquarie University on Arthur Hyman and Claims Officers in the First World War,
  • Philip Selth, OAM, Executive Director NSW Bar Association, on the Trials of John “Mangrove” Murphy
  • Tony Cunneen, History Teacher, St Pius X College, author, on the Law and War in 1917
  • Col James Waddell, former Director of Army Legal Services, on the Army Legal Department


Other contributions (including a panel discussion) from:

  • The Hon Paul Brereton AM RFD, on Not So Strange Bedfellows: the Professions of Law and of Arms
  • The Hon Bruce Debelle AO QC, on Victor Windeyer
  • Geoff Lindsay SC, on CEW Bean
  • The Hon Justice Slattery, on Admiral Farncomb 

Download full program

There is no cost for this conference, however we would request all participants to register.

Papers and other materials from the Symposium

The Hon Justice John Logan, RFD, Queensland Barristers in WWII, Queensland Bar News (Dec 2005)

Any inquiries please contact Shaunnagh Dorsett.