Download This Paper'Sir Frederick Jordan: Fire Under the Frost', Keith Mason, Federation Press, Sydney, 2019
Campbell, J. Book Review: 'Sir Frederick Jordan: Fire Under the Frost' by Keith Mason, (Federation Press 2019), Australian Bar Review, 48, 2020, pp. 239-242
5 Pages Posted: 31 Mar 2020
Date Written: March 30, 2020
Abstract
This important and thoroughly researched first biography of one of Australia’s finest judges, Sir Frederick Jordan, Chief Justice of NSW 1934–1949, places his legal career in the context of his personal and intellectual life and of contemporaneous social and political events. It explores his particular judicial method, his important role as a judge who kept an expansive wartime government within legal bounds, and the circumstances of his being the first Australian-raised State governor.
Keywords: Judicial biography, Australian judges, Sir Frederick Jordan, judicial method, common types of litigation and procedure in 1930s and 1940s, Australian state constitutional law, practice concerning appointment of state Governor
JEL Classification: K10, K30, K49
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