AFR Magazine’s hotly anticipated Power issue, out on Friday, October 2, includes lists of the key players across six industry sectors. Here are Australia’s five most powerful people in law.

The law’s water-cooler moment for 2020 was the sexual harassment scandal involving former High Court judge Dyson Heydon. One of the most powerful men in the law, and a pillar of the establishment, was found by an independent inquiry to have made unwelcome advances to six associates during his decade on the court.