For a High Court that has been at least partially defined by its unity, this week’s crop of decisions showed more division among the usually like-minded judges than usual.
One marked an end to the long-running intellectual synergy of Chief Justice Susan Kiefel and Justice Patrick Keane, with the pair breaking rank for the first time in more than five years.Their honours split on, in which the High Court overturned an earlier ruling that it defamed Melbourne lawyer George Defteros by providing access to a hyperlink to a newspaper article.
It’s a fork in the road for the Queenslanders, who usually form a core alliance so tight that one academic has described it as two-thirds of the “They weren’t the only judges to decide they needed a break from each other, though .
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