Sir Harry Gibbs and a Representative Bench

The Right Honourable Gibbs Harry Sir GCMG AC KBE, Oration Delivered at the Opening of the Supreme Court Library's Rare Books Room at the Supreme Court of Queensland, 11 February 2000, <http://www.courts.qld.gov.au/sc&dc/speeches/gibbs110200.htm>.

A report by the Federal Attorney-General, in 1993, found that men of Anglo-Saxon or Celtic background held 90% of federal judicial offices: Attorney-General's Department Judicial Appointments — Procedure and Criteria, AGPS, 1993, para 1.4.

Gibbs Harry Sir , above.

Sheehy E A , ‘Personal Autonomy and the Criminal Law: Emerging Issues for Women’, Background Paper in Graycar R. and Morgan J. , The Hidden Gender of Law, The Federation Press, 1990, p.40.

Gibbs Harry Sir , above.

Attorney-General's Department, above, para 5.63–5.69; on the broader impact of gender on judging see Neave Marcia , ‘The Gender of Judging’, (1995) 2 Psychiatry, Psychology and Law 3.

McWilliams E , ‘A Fairer Gender Balance on the Bench Means a Fairer Society’ (1998) 36(10) LSJ 63.

Gibbs Harry Sir , above.

Open Letter to the Attorney-General of Victoria, The Hon Jan Wade MLA, 31 May 1999, <http://www.law.monash.edu.au/JCA/wade.htm>.

McWilliams , above.

Australian Law Reform Commission, Equality before the law: Women's Equality, ALRC 69, Part 2, 1994, Recommendation 9.3, at <http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/alrc/publications/reports/69/vol2/ALRC69.html>

ALRC Report, above, Recommendation 9.5.