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Sir Maurice Hearne Byers CBE QC (10 November 191717 January 1999) was a noted Australian jurist and constitutional expert. He was the Commonwealth Solicitor-General from 1973 to 1983, in which capacity he played a role in the Gair Affair and the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis. He had an unmatched record of success in his appearances before the High Court of Australia, and he has been characterised as the finest lawyer never to have been appointed to the High Court.〔 ==Career== Maurice Hearn Byers was born on 10 November 1917.〔(Obituary, New South Wales Bar Association )〕 He attended St Aloysius' College in Sydney. He studied law at the University of Sydney and was admitted to the Bar in 1944.〔 In 1957 his Sydney practice in Wentworth Chambers joined those of John Kerr and Gough Whitlam. His practice was mainly in the fields of equity, taxation, company and constitutional law. He appeared frequently before the Privy Council. He became a Queen's Counsel in 1960.〔 He was President of the New South Wales Bar Association from 1965 to 1967.〔 He was also a Member of the Executive Council of the Law Council of Australia from 1966 to 1968.〔(Trove NLA )〕 In 1973 he was appointed Commonwealth Solicitor-General, serving until 1983. He had an unparalleled success rate when appearing before the High Court in that capacity.〔〔〔 He was said to have had "mesmeric powers" over the High Court.〔( THEORIES OF CONSTITUTIONAL INTERPRETATION )〕 On entering the law, his ambition had been to become the best constitutional lawyer in the country. His peers considered he achieved his goal.〔〔 (詳細はVince Gair had ceased to be eligible to remain a senator from no later than 20 March, the day the Irish Government had accepted his appointment as Ambassador to Ireland, which is an office of profit under the Crown. The matter was of great interest to the Senate, which for a number of days debated Gair's letter to the Senate President advising that he had ceased to be eligible to be a senator upon his appointment (it was not a letter of resignation as such). The Opposition argued that Gair had participated in debates and votes in the Senate until as late as 2 April, without any objections from the government, and had not tendered his letter to the President until 3 April, by which time the writs for 5 Queensland senators for the forthcoming half-Senate election were already issued. The matter was resolved when Whitlam called a double dissolution instead of a half-Senate election. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Maurice Byers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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