In the 200-year history of the Supreme Court of NSW, few judges have had as significant or as important an impact as the man whose death we mourn but whose life we honour and celebrate.

Andrew Rogers, AO, KC, was a large intellect and a large personality. Urbane, charming and amusing, generous and broad-minded, fiercely intelligent, provocative and with boundless energy, a man ahead of his time and a citizen of the world, I liked and admired him enormously.