Kirby, Michael --- "Freeing the Law - Beyond the Dark Chaos" [1999] UNSWLawJl 8; (1999) 22(2) UNSW Law Journal 585

[#] Speech presented at the AustLII Law Via the Internet ’99 Conference, Law School, UTS, Sydney, 22 July 1999.

[*] Justice of the High Court of Australia. One-time Chairman of the OECD Expert Group on Transborder Data Barriers and Privacy and on Security of Information Systems. Governor of the International Council for Computer Communications.

[1] HLA Hart, biographical entry on Jeremy Bentham in AWB Simpson (ed), Biographical Dictionary of the Common Law, Butterworths (1984) 44.

[2] JH Burns and HLA Hart (eds), A Comment on the Commentaries and a Fragment of Government University of London Althlone Press (1977) p 198.

[3] Ibid, p 95. See also P Schofield, “Jeremy Bentham: Legislator of the World” (1998) 51 Current Legal Problems 115 at 122.

[4] Note 1 supra at 45.

[5] Especially J Bentham, A Fragment on Government, JH Burns and HLA Hart (ed), Cambridge University Press (1988, c1977) and J Bentham, An Introduction to the Principles and Morals of Legislation, JH Burns and HLA Hart (eds), Athlone Press (1970).

[6] M Kirby, “Privacy in Cyberspace” [1998] UNSWLawJl 47; (1998) 21 UNSWLJ 323.

[7] Tasmania v The Commonwealth [1983] HCA 21; (1983) 158 CLR 1

[8] Mabo v Queensland [No 2] [1992] HCA 23; (1992) 175 CLR 1.

[9] Wik Peoples v Queensland (1996) 187 CLR 1.

[10] Cf Byrnes v The Queen (1999) 73 ALJR 1292; [1999] HCA 38 at [77].