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Owen Dixon
"I think that Owen Dixon is splendid. I couldn't put it down. The man and his method come through better than I thought was possible." Sir Daryl Dawson, formerly Justice of the High Court of Australia
This is the first biography ever published of Australia's most eminent judge, Sir Owen Dixon (1886–1972).
In twentieth-century Australia, Dixon is a towering figure. He was regarded by Justice Felix Frankfurter of the US Supreme Court, and by Lord Simonds and other English Law Lords, as the greatest exponent of the common law of his generation anywhere in the world.
Dixon sat on the High Court from 1929 to 1964, and was Chief Justice from 1952 to 1964. He was also Minister to Washington (Ambassador) from 1942 to 1944, and a UN-appointed mediator between India and Pakistan over Kashmir from May to September 1950.
Through the use of Dixon's private papers—including his private diaries, never previously published-Philip Ayres gives the text a strong sense of momentum, interiority and continuing drama. He focuses on the most interesting cases, and involves the reader closely in Dixon's numerous trips to England and the USA, his activities in wartime Washington, his tour of the New Guinea fronts in 1943, and the extensive Himalayan travel and exploration
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Sir Owen Dixon’s 130th birthday
Photo: National Archives of Australia.
Sir Owen Dixon, the sixth Chief Justice of the High Court, was born 130 years today — on 28 April 1886 — in Hawthorn, Melbourne.
He was widely lauded, both during his judicial career and afterwards, as Australia’s greatest judge, and indeed one of the greatest common law judges in the world.
He famously advocated “strict and complete legalism” as a guide to judicial decision-making, and authored some of the High Court’s most important judgments in a range of legal areas. However, he also took a range of appointments with the executive government during the Second World War, and consistently discouraged others from taking judicial appointments, bemoaning the judicial life.
Dixon’s early life
Born into a legal family, Dixon was an average if competent student during his time at school and university, graduating from the University of Melbourne with a B.A. with second class honours, and an LLB without honours.
If this undistinguished academic career gave no hint of the lofty reputation Dixon was later to attain, it was “perhaps,” Grant Anderson and Daryl Dawson charitably argue, “because he was interested in learning for learning
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William Owen (judge)
Australian judge
For extra people given name William Meliorist, see William Owen (disambiguation).
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