Sir anthony mason biography of donald

Sir Anthony was a judge of the High Court of Australia from 1972 to 1987, and Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia from 1987 to 1995..

Sir Anthony Frank Mason served as a judge of the NSW Court of Appeal, and as a justice, and later Chief Justice, of the High Court of Australia.

  • The range of topics in this book reflects the extraordinarily wide and lasting influence of Sir Anthony Mason on Australian law, and on law-makers, judges.
  • Sir Anthony was a judge of the High Court of Australia from 1972 to 1987, and Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia from 1987 to 1995.
  • The big story in the second volume of Hocking's Whitlam biography turns on the revelation that Sir Anthony Mason was "the third man" involved in.
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    • Anthony Mason (judge)

    Australian judge

    Sir Anthony Frank MasonAC KBEGBMKCHonFAIB DistFRSN (born 21 April ) is an Australian judge who served as the ninth Chief Justice of Australia, in office from to He was first appointed to the High Court in , having previously served on the Supreme Court of New South Wales.

    Early life

    Mason was born in Sydney on 21 April [1] He was one of four children born to Eileen (née&#;McArdle) and Frank Maxwell Mason. His father, a World War I veteran and Military Cross recipient, was a registered surveyor who developed a substantial practice on the North Shore of Sydney.

    He served terms as president of the New South Wales bodies for surveying and town planning.[2]

    Mason received his early education at Kincoppal, Elizabeth Bay, where he was an acquaintance of future federal attorney-general Tom Hughes.[3] He went on to attend Sydney Grammar School and became interested in law through his uncle Harold Mason, a