Interview with Justice Edward Williams, retired justice of the Supreme Court of Queensland / Interviewer: Daniel Connell.

1995 Apr. 10.

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Williams, Edward Stratten, -- Sir, -- Judge, -- appointed 1971-1984.

Playground and Recreation Association of Queensland.

Commonwealth Games -- Brisbane, Qld.) -- 1982:00:00 -- (12th :.

Expo 88 -- (Brisbane, Qld.)

Judges -- Australia.

Australia. -- Politics and government.

Williams speaks of his family background, reasons for choosing law, his dual law studies and World War II service (mainly in the airforce and in Britain), the Republic debate, knighthoods, post-war return to Australia and entering private practice, Magistrates Court, financial rewards, self- and court regulation, Playground and Recreation Association (Qld. Branch), Federal practice, the Family Court, life as a Supreme Court judge, writing up judgements, Sir Joh Bjelke Petersen and Queensland politics, Queensland Turf Club Committee, Australian Royal Commission of Inquiry into Drugs 1977-1980, International Narcotics Control Board, Queensland Parole Board, National Crime Commission, 1982 Commonwealth Games, Sam Ramsammy, Malcolm Fraser, Prisoner's Aid Society, Corrective Services Commission, racing dispute with Mr Gibbs and its consequences, Anti-Cancer Council, Australian of the Year, horse racing and its appeal, Expo 88, Fiji Court of Appeal, his children, other interests, Elders and other company directorships, Holmes a Court, Fitzgerald Royal Commission, opinion on politicians.

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Williams was a very energetic Queensland Supreme Court Judge, involving himself in the Queensland Parole Board, the Royal Commission Inquiry into Drugs 1977-80, the International Narcotics Control Board Vienna, the Anti-Cancer Council, the Queensland Playground and Recreation Association, and chairing the 1982 Brisbane Commonwealth Games and Expo '88, to list only his principal achievements.

Oral History Collection.

6 sound cassettes (320 min.) + transcript (107 pages)