Abstract

The Honourable Justice Dyson Heydon AC, of the High Court of Australia, will give a talk entitled “How Far Can Trial Courts and Intermediate Appellate Courts Develop the Law?” Justice Heydon will be in Cambridge as a distinguished Herbert Smith Visitor. He was appointed to the High Court in February 2003. At the time of his appointment he was a judge of the Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of New South Wales, having been appointed to that office in 2000. He was educated at the University of Sydney (BA) and Oxford (MA, BCL ) as a Rhodes Scholar. He was admitted to the New South Wales Bar in 1973 and was appointed a Queen’s Counsel in 1987. At the age of 34 he was elected Dean of the University of Sydney Law School for the years 1978-79. He practised at the Bar from 1979 until his appointment to the Court of Appeal.

The Herbert Smith Visitor Scheme is generously funded by the international law firm, Herbert Smith, to enable the Faculty of Law at Cambridge to invite distinguished overseas lawyers to come to Cambridge and pursue their work in Cambridge amongst the Faculty.