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In March 1967, South Australian Premier Don Dunstan appointed his State's most outstanding barrister as Chief Justice: John Jefferson Bray. In public, Bray's appointment brought barely a ripple, but in the murky urban waters of Adelaide's corridors of power, this decision unleashed waves of outrage and bitter revenge seeking. After his successful defense of Rupert Murdoch's News in 1960 in a seditious libel case, John Jefferson Bray made a powerful enemy who coveted the position that Chief Justice Bray would come to hold; an enemy who would then ruthlessly target Bray's unconventional private life. Conditions would eventually lead to the sacking of a police commissioner, the resignation of Dunstan, and the early retirement of Bray. This is the story of an extraordinarily gifted man whose judicial writings continue to be cited across the Commonwealth and who was determined to defend not only his own natural right to a private life, but that of all citizens. As the Honorable Michael Kirby relates in his Foreword, "the abuse of power, recorded in those pages, stands as a warning to us." \*\*\* This biography...unravel(s) the puzzle of how such a gifted legal scholar, advocate and judg

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Author

John Emerson, Michael Kirby

Publisher

Monash University Publishing

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781922235626

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Biography, Law