William Deane
Sir William Patrick Deane AC, KBE, QC ( born January 4, 1931 in Melbourne) is an Australian legal scholar and former Governor-General of Australia.
Biography
Studies and professional career as a lecturer and lawyer
After education at St Christopher's Convent in Canberra as well as the St. Joseph's College in Sydney, he earned a degree in art and law at the University of Sydney. After graduating with a Bachelor of Laws ( LL.B. ) in 1954, for which he also received the annual Medal of the Faculty of Law, he was first employee in the Office of the Attorney General ( Commonwealth Attorney - General ) in Canberra, before moving to Europe traveled, where he worked for an international law Postgraduate studies in International Law graduated from the Hague Academy, where he graduated in 1955 with a diploma cum laude.
After his return to Australia he was from 1956 to 1957, first clerk in the law firm Minter Simpson & Co. in Sydney, before after his admission to the bar association attorney at Sydney 1957 he was there lawyer. At the same time he was also a lecturer in international law at the University of Sydney, where he was subsequently to 1961 Lecturer in Equity. In 1966 he was appointed Queen's Counsel (Queen 's Counsel ).
Since that time, he was active in the Catholic community and at the same time interested in political issues. In 1955 he was briefly a member of the Democratic Labor Party, a predominantly Catholic and anti-communist cleavage of the Australian Labor Party. However, he was soon disappointed by the party and took after his early exit no other political party functions. Nevertheless, he remained a strong supporter of advanced continue Catholic doctrine on social justice and opponents of racial discrimination.
Ascent to Supreme Court
In February 1977 Deane was made judge in the Equity Division of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. In the same year he was on April 1, 1977 Judge at the Bundesgerichtshof ( Federal Court of Australia ), where he was President of the Tribunal for commercial law.
Then in July 1982 as a successor of Ninian Stephen, who was appointed Governor-General, his appointment as Judge of the High Court of Australia, the High Court of Australia, where he worked until 10 November 1995. During his tenure on the Supreme Court, he was one of his long working setting for the majority of the judges who on June 3, 1992, in the landmark decision Mabo versus Queensland the bottom right of possession ( Native Title ) Aboriginal, Aborigines, recognized and Violations again as incompatible the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 explained. As discharge from this decision, the Parliament passed the Native Title Act enacted in 1993. Finally, he sat down in his tenure as a judge for the reconciliation with the indigenous people a.
Governor-General of Australia
On November 10, 1995, he was recommended by Prime Minister Paul Keating as the successor to Sir William George Hayden for the office of Governor-General of Australia and appointed by Queen Elizabeth II shortly thereafter. The office of Governor-General 22 he officially took over after his swearing-in ceremony on 16 February 1996.
In his capacity as representative of the Queen, he was, among other things also the patron of the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
On June 29, 2001, he followed the former Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane, Peter Hollingworth, according to the Office of the Governor General.
Awards
For his services he was in 1982 defeated a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire and therefore eligible to carry the title Sir. In addition, he was in 1988 awarded the Order of Australia.
In addition to an honorary Doctor of Law ( LL.D. ) his alma mater in 1990 he also honorary doctorate ( LL.D. hc ) the Australian Catholic University in 1998, the University of Technology Sydney in 2001, the University of Queensland in 2003 and the University of Melbourne were 2004 awarded.