Kenneth Jacobs, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Kenneth Jacobs

Australian judge

Date of Birth: 05-Oct-1917

Place of Birth: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Date of Death: 24-May-2015

Profession: judge, barrister

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Kenneth Jacobs

  • Sir Kenneth Sydney Jacobs KBE QC (5 October 1917 – 24 May 2015), Australian judge, was a Justice of the High Court of Australia. Jacobs was born in 1917 in Gordon, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales.
  • He was educated at Knox Grammar School, and later studied at the University of Sydney, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1938.
  • During World War II, from 1940 to 1945, Jacobs served in the Second Australian Imperial Force.
  • He enlisted in Paddington in 1939, and remained in the service until 1948.
  • Following his return from the war, Jacobs returned to the University of Sydney where he completed a Bachelor of Laws degree, winning the university's Medal for Law in 1946, and graduating in 1947.
  • Later that year, Jacobs was admitted to the New South Wales Bar Association, where he practised as a barrister, and in 1958 he was made a Queen's Counsel. In 1960 Jacobs was appointed as a Judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales.
  • In 1963, Jacobs was selected to serve a three-year term in Cyprus as the neutral presiding judge of the Supreme Constitutional Court of Cyprus, which was to be established following attempts to establish a constitution.
  • However, following a period of civil unrest on 21 and 22 December 1963, the constitutional arrangements collapsed, and the court was never created.
  • In 1966 Jacobs was elevated to the Court of Appeal of New South Wales.
  • From 1972, Jacobs was President of the NSW Court of Appeal.
  • Jacobs was appointed to the bench of the High Court on 8 February 1974.
  • He was selected by Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and Attorney-General Lionel Murphy, and was thus the first High Court Justice to be appointed by a Labor government since William Webb in 1946.
  • Murphy, who was himself appointed to the High Court the following year, praised Jacobs for humanitarianism and his excellent legal scholarship.Jacobs was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1976.
  • He retired from the High Court on 6 April 1979.
  • On 19 July 1979, Jacobs was granted life membership of the New South Wales Bar.

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