Speeches/Articles by Chief Justice Stephen Gageler AC

50 Speeches/Articles by Chief Justice Stephen Gageler AC

2025

  • ‘George Winterton Memorial Lecture 2025: The Evolution of the Australian Electoral System as a Constitutional Process’ (2025) 47 Sydney Law Review (advance)

2024

  • ‘The State of the Australian Judicature in 2024’ (2024) 98(12) Australian Law Journal 885

  • “John Doyle Oration” 6 April 2024
  • Book Foreword, Dennis C Pearce, “Statutory Interpretation in Australia“ Tenth edition (50th anniversary edition) (Lexis Nexis, Australia 2024).

  • ‘The State of the Australian Judicature in 2024’ (Address, Australian Judicial Officers Association Colloquium, Canberra, 12 October 2024) [fully referenced version]
  • ‘The New Constitutional Scholarship in Australia’ (2024) 48(1) Melbourne University Law Review 202

  • “Remembering Sir Cyril Walsh KBE” (2024) 98 Australian Law Journal 619.

2023

  • “Administrative Law in the Common law tradition” (2023) 53 Australian Bar Review 1.
  • ”Judicial Legitimacy”, (2023) 97 (1) Australian Law Journal 28
  • “Integrating the Australian judicial system” (2023) 15(1) The Judicial Review 21
  • Book Launch, “Dynamic and Principled: The Influence of Sir Anthony Mason”, Ben Chen and Jeffrey Gordon (eds) (2023) 52 Australian Bar Review 450.
  • Book Foreword, Benjamin B Saunders, “Responsible Government and the Australian Constitution: A Government for a Sovereign People”(Hart Studies in Comparative Public Law, 2023)
  • “The Legacy of Sir Gerard Brennan to Australian Public Law” (2023) 33 Public Law Review 303.

2022

  • “Just versus Quick: Constructivist and Ecological Rationality in a Common Law System” (2022) 45(2) Melbourne University Law Review 830.
  • Book Review, " Australian Contract Law in the 21st Century" (2022) (1) Cambridge Law Journal 81.

  • “Law in a time of COVID”, Victorian Bar News Issue 171 – Winter 2022
  • BookReview, " Public Finance and Parliamentary Constitutionalism" (2022) 46(1)Melbourne University Law Review 320.
  • “The Coming of Age of Australian Law” in McDonald, Chen & Gordon (eds) Dynamic and Principled: The Influence of Sir Anthony Mason(The Federation Press, 2022).

2020

  • Review Essay, “Judging the New by the Old in the Judicial Review of Executive Action” (2020) Sydney Law Review 42 (4).
  • “A Tale of Two Ships: The MV Tampa and the SS Afghan” (2019) 40 (3) Adelaide Law Review 615.
  • "Commentary on Chapter 5" in John Griffiths and James Stellios (eds), Current Issues in Australian Constitutional Law (The Federation Press, 2020).
  • "Engineers: The Drama of its Day in the Climate of its Era" (2020) 31 Public Law Review 4.

2019

  • “Small Steps and Giant Leaps: Patterns in Australian Constitutional Adjudication” (2019) 19 Macquarie Law Journal 15.
  • “Alternative Facts in the Courts” (2019) 93 Australian Law Journal 585
  • “Three is Plenty” (2019) in G Weeks and M Groves (eds), Administrative Redress In and Out of the Courts: Essays in Honour of Robin Creyke and John McMillan (Federation Press, 2019)

2018

  • "Expansion of the Fiduciary Paradigm into Commercial Relationships: The Australian Experience" in Peter Devonshire and Rohan Havelock (eds), The Impact of Equity and Restitution in Commerce (Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2018)
  • "The Section 92 Revolution" in James Stellios (ed), Encounters with Constitutional Interpretation and Legal Education: Essays in Honour of Michael Coper (The Federation Press, 2018) 26
  • "Comparative Constitutional Law" in The Oxford Handbook of the Australian Constitution by Cheryl Saunders and Adrienne Stone (eds.). New York: Oxford University Press, 2018
  • “Truth and justice, and sheep” (2018) 46 Australian Bar Review 205
  • Sir Robert Garran: Medio Tutissimus Ibis" (2018) 46 Federal Law Review 1

2017

  • "Evidence and truth" (2017) 13 (3) The Judicial Review 249
  • Book Review, "Controlling Administrative Power: An Historical Comparison" (2017) The Cambridge Law Journal 76 (2)
  • Chapter IV: The Inter-State Commission and the Regulation of Trade and Commerce under the Australian Constitution (2017) 28 Public Law Review 205
  • "When the High Court Went on Strike" (2017) 40 Melbourne University Law Review 1098

2016

  • "The Equitable Duty of Loyalty in Public Office" in Bonyhady (ed,) Finn's Law: An Australian Justice , (Federation Press, 2016).
  • The intersection of the common law, statute law and notions of fairness [2016] IFL 15.
  • 'What it is to be a government lawyer' This article is taken from the speech given on the occasion of the launch in April 2016 of 'Without fear or favour: The life of Dennis John Rose AM QC' by Carmel Meiklejohn, Reproduced courtesy of Australian Government Solicitor magazine © Commonwealth of Australia 2016
  • Book Review, "Damages and Human Rights" (2016) 27 Public Law Review 327.

2015

  • Whitmore and the Americans: Some American Influences on the Development of Australian Administrative Law" (2015) 38 UNSW Law Journal 1316
  • 'Legislative Intention'(2015) 41 Monash University Law Review 1.
  • "The Master of Words: Who Chooses Statutory Meaning" in Connolly and Steward (eds), Public Law in the Age of Statutes, Essays in Honour of Dennis Pearce (Federation Press, 2015)
  • "James Bryce and the Australian Constitution" (2015) 43 Federal Law Review 177
  • "Pearls of Wisdom" (2015) 13 Law Society of NSW Journal 21
  • "Deference" (2015) 22 Australian Journal of Administrative Law 151

2014

  • "The Constitutional Dimension" in M Groves (ed), "Modern Administrative Law in Australia: Concepts and Contexts" (2014)
  • "Collective Irrationality and the Doctrine of Precedent" (2014) 38 Melbourne University Law Review 525 (with Dr Brendan Lim)
  • "Why Write Judgments?" (2014) 36 Sydney Law Review 189
  • "What is a Question of Law?" (2014) 43 Australian Tax Review 68
  • "What is Information Technology Doing to the Common Law?" (2014) 39 Australian Bar Review 146