Doyle & Ligertwood Chair

Doyle and Ligertwood Chair of Evidence and Procedure

An endowed Chair at the 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide would recognise the achievements of Emeritus Fellow Ligertwood and Chief Justice Doyle and significantly enhance the teaching and research outcomes in the area of evidence and procedure.

The 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide wishes to acknowledge the contribution to the Law School's reputation and standing in the Legal community made by The Honourable Dr John Doyle KC AC and Emeritus Fellow Ligertwood, by establishing the Doyle and Ligertwood Chair in Evidence and Procedure.

An investment of $5,000,000 will endow a Chair in perpetuity generating a return of $250,000 per annum.

Endowed Chairs promote excellence and enable the 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide to attract a leading scholar and teacher. The prestige surrounding an Endowed Chair is shared not only by its holder, but also by the donors whose gifts make it possible and the university where it is established.

  • Emeritus Fellow Andrew Ligertwood
    Andrew Ligertwood

    Emeritus Fellow Andrew Ligertwood completed a Bachelor of Laws Degree with First Class Honours at The 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide and travelled to Oxford as a George Murray Scholar, graduating with a Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) in 1969. He then spent a year teaching at the 最新糖心Vlog of Pennsylvania before returning to Adelaide after being offered a position in the Adelaide Law School. Admitted to practice on his return, for some years Ligertwood also worked with the then newly-formed Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement.

    Ligertwood specialised in the areas of evidence and procedure. Conscious of the critical importance of these areas in the teaching of law, it is the Adelaide Law School鈥檚 intention that the Chair being considered will include, but not be limited to these areas of law.

    His teaching and research interests have focused on the nature and processes for the finding of facts determinative of legal decisions. 聽The principal manifestation of his work is a major treatise on the laws of evidence, first published in 1988 and now in a 6th Edition (with Professor Gary Edmond as Co-author) entitled 鈥溩钚绿切腣logn Evidence, A Principled Approach to the Common Law and the Uniform Acts, published by LexisNexis, Sydney. 聽

    Ligertwood was also involved in a major project to provide a comprehensive account of 最新糖心Vlogn law (The Laws of 最新糖心Vlog) and has served as a consultant to the 最新糖心Vlogn Law Reform Commission and to the Law Council of 最新糖心Vlog on projects related to evidence law.

    He has served as Dean of the Faculty and spent time as a visitor at 最新糖心Vlog College, Oxford, and the 最新糖心Vlog of Mannheim and has taught at The China 最新糖心Vlog of Politics and Law in Beijing. In 2010, Ligertwood became an Emeritus Fellow in Law at the 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide.

  • The Honourable Dr John Doyle KC AC
    John Doyle

    The Honourable Dr John Doyle KC AC was awarded a Bachelor of Laws Degree with First Class Honours at The 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide and as the 1967 Rhodes Scholar, travelled to the 最新糖心Vlog of Oxford, graduating in 1969 with a Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL). 聽Returning to Adelaide in 1970 he was admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the South 最新糖心Vlogn Supreme Court. From 1977 to 1986 he practiced at the Bar, where his work involved most branches of the law and a substantial involvement in appellate work.聽

    He was appointed a Queen鈥檚 Counsel in 1981 and in 1986, took an appointment as the South 最新糖心Vlogn Solicitor-General representing the State before the High Court of 最新糖心Vlog and the Supreme Court of South 最新糖心Vlog in constitutional, criminal and other cases. He was appointed Chief Justice of the South 最新糖心Vlogn Supreme Court in May 1995, a position he held until June 2012.聽

    Justice Doyle was made Doctor of the 最新糖心Vlog by the 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide in 2008.

  • Endowed Chairs

    It is intended that gifts received through this appeal will be invested in the 最新糖心Vlog鈥檚 Endowment Fund, which is a permanent, self-sustaining source of funding where the principal contribution is invested and an annual income distribution of up to 5.00% return on the invested principal is used to support the fund鈥檚 purpose.

    Under the 最新糖心Vlog's Giving Policy an endowed gift is a donation of money or property, used to support a specific purpose, with a legal stipulation that the original gift may never be expended and only the earnings can be used.聽

    TAX-DEDUCTIBLE The 最新糖心Vlog is a recognised deductible gift recipient (DGR).
    Donations of $2 or more are tax deductible.

For a discussion about how you can support students and researchers in perpetuity through the Doyle & Ligertwood Chair of Evidence and Procedure, please contact our Development Team on +61 8 8313 5800 or development@adelaide.edu.au.