Justice michael kirby biography of abraham
Appealing To the Future: Michael Kirby and His Legacy!
Michael Kirby (judge)
Australian jurist and academic
Michael Donald KirbyAC CMG (born 18 March 1939) is an Australian jurist and academic who is a former Justice of the High Court of Australia, serving from 1996 to 2009.[1] He has remained active in retirement; in May 2013 he was appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council to lead an inquiry into human rights abuses in North Korea, which reported in February 2014.
Justice michael kirby biography of abraham
Early life and education
Michael Donald Kirby was born on 18 March 1939 at Crown Street Women's Hospital to Donald and Jean Langmore (née Knowles) Kirby. He was the eldest of five siblings, followed by twins Donald William and David Charles (the latter died at 18 months from pneumonia), David, and Diana Margaret.[2] In 1943 his grandmother, Norma Gray, remarried and her second husband was Jack Simpson, National Treasurer of the Australian Communist Party.
Although Kirby came to admire Simpson, neither he nor his immediate family