Eggleston, Richard Moulton

Position summary

Judge of Commonwealth Industrial Court and Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory, 1969-1974; Special part-time appointment as Lecturer and Consultant to Monash Law School, 1974-1983; Chancellor, 1975-1983; Fellow of the Faculty of Law, 1984-1987; Honorary Consultant to Australian Law Reform Commissions Evidence Project, 1980-1986.

Biography

Richard Moulton Eggleston was born in Melbourne on 8 August 1909. He was awarded the degrees of LLB and LLD from the University of Melbourne. Between 1932 and 1949 he worked as a Barrister, for part of this time (1940-49) also lecturing in law at the University of Melbourne. He was appointed a Kings Counsel in 1950, appointed to the Bench in 1960 and from then until 1969 served as a judge of the Supreme Court of Norfolk Island. From 1969 to 1974 Eggleston served as a judge of the Commonwealth Industrial Court and the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory. In 1974 he took up a special part-time appointment as Lecturer and Consultant to the Monash Law School which he continued during his appointment as Chancellor of the University (1975-83) and became a Fellow of the Faculty of Law in 1984, a position he retained until 1987. Between 1980 and 1986 Eggleston also served as Honorary Consultant to the Australian Law Reform Commissions Evidence Project. He is the author of numerous journal articles and the monograph Evidence, Proof and Probability (1978 and 1983).

Papers

Addresses and publications 1961-1990
Addresses, lectures and published and unpublished articles. Files may include drafts, offprints, journal issues, and occasionally related correspondence.

Research material and related correspondence 1948-1990
Papers in this collection include a large collection of correspondence and research material, associated with Sir Richard's work on probabilities and the law, research which he carried out during his years as Chancellor and continued in subsequent years. Numerous slides prepared for seminars on probability and the law are also included.

Correspondence and records related to Elizabeth Eggleston 1975-1978
A small collection of correspondence, press cuttings and other records related to Sir Richard's daughter, Elizabeth - her thesis, her travels in the United States and her death in 1976. The series also includes negatives of family photographs.

See also
Brighton Cemetery: Sir Richard Moulton Eggleston