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Monday, 18 April 2011

Honorary Degrees of Doctor of Laws were awarded in the recent Autumn graduation ceremony. Doctorates were awarded to Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, Robert French and the Honourable Neville Owen , Senior Judge in the Western Australian Supreme Court. Justice Owen has also recently taken up a fractional appointment as Winthrop Professor; he will lecture our law students in a number of subjects, particularly dealing with issues in legal ethics and corporate governance.

UWA Rhodes Scholar and 1997 law graduate James Edelman has become the youngest lawyer to be appointed to the WA Supreme Court bench. Justice Edelman was the youngest professor of law at Oxford University and until his recent appointment he was working in commercial law at the London bar.

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