Jul 09 2024 8 mins
Garfield Barwick is perhaps best known due to his work as the longest serving Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia from 1964-1981. Yet we all start somewhere. In this episode we hear Barwick talk about his memories of being a law student at the University of Sydney in the 1920s, and his early days as a barrister in Sydney.
Interested to learn more?
https://www.hcourt.gov.au/artworks/portraits-of-chief-justices/the-rt-hon-sir-garfield-barwick
Article - The Rise of Sir Garfield Barwick "There is always an answer" http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-700352346 Visit the University of Sydney
Archives: https://usydarchives.recollectcms.com/
Listen to the full interview with Garfield: https://archives-search.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/91650
Photo By National Library of Australia - https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-136609576, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=66301284