Robert Hayes (legal scholar)
Robert Alexander Hayes (12 January 1942 – 10 November 2011) was an Australian
After schooling at
quasi-judicial officer, law reform commissioner, government consultant, legal publisher, and law lecturer. His international appointments included lecturing at the Law Schools of McGill, Montreal and the University of Toronto.[1] In 1980 he became a commissioner at the Australian Law Reform Commission and rescued a stale inquiry into privacy law in time for chairman, Michael Kirby, to deliver the three-volume report in the last days of 1983.[1][2] He was also in charge of an inquiry on Insurance agents, brokers and contracts.[2]
Hayes was the foundation editor of the
UNSW Faculty of Law.[2]
He had an extensive list of publications, his most recent was Criminal Law and Procedure in New South Wales which he co-authored with Michael Eburn, a senior lecturer at the
University of New England
, Australia.
Hayes was involved in numerous community services programs including the Intellectual Disability Rights Service and as Chair of the Management Committee of Charmian Clift Cottages, a residential programme for mothers with mental illness and their children.[2]
Hayes was married with four children.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e "Backer of those without a voice". The Sydney Morning Herald. 7 January 2012. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
- ^ a b c d e "Robert Alexander Hayes (1942–2011)". Australian Law Reform Commission. 13 December 2011. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
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