Michael Kirby

Michael Donald Kirby, AC, CMG, (born 18 March 1939) is a former Justice of the High Court of Australia, serving from 1996 to 2009. Justice Kirby attended Fort Street High School in Sydney. He received his Bachelor of Arts (1959), Bachelor of Laws (1962), Bachelor of Economics (1965) and Master of Laws (First Class Honours) (1967) from the University of Sydney. At Sydney University, he was elected President of the Students' Representative Council ... more

Michael Donald Kirby, AC, CMG, (born 18 March 1939) is a former Justice of the High Court of Australia, serving from 1996 to 2009. Justice Kirby attended Fort Street High School in Sydney. He received his Bachelor of Arts (1959), Bachelor of Laws (1962), Bachelor of Economics (1965) and Master of Laws (First Class Honours) (1967) from the University of Sydney. At Sydney University, he was elected President of the Students' Representative Council (1962-1963) and President of the Sydney University Union (1965). Kirby was admitted to the New South Wales Bar in 1967. His first quasi-judicial appointment was to the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, a tribunal which adjudicated labour disputes, upon which he served as a Deputy President from 1975 until 1983. From 1983 to 1984, he was a judge in the Federal Court of Australia and the youngest man appointed to the federal judiciary, before an appointment as President of the New South Wales Court of Appeal, a superior court... less