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Disgrace of Heydon is a warning to all professions

Chief Justice Susan Kiefel has effectively put on notice all the hierarchical professions that overbearing behaviour by senior men has to end.

Jun 24, 2020 – 12.00am

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Former justice of the High Court Dyson Heydon is a conservative pillar of the legal establishment from central casting, a hammer of the law-breaking CFMEU in the royal commission he led into union corruption, and who was brutally frank with fellow judges on their inefficiency and inability to deliver judgments on time.

Now he is disgraced by complaints from his subordinates during his decade on the High Court to 2013 that have been endorsed by an inquiry called by his peers.

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