Roderick Meagher

Roderick Pitt "Roddy" Meagher
Born	1932
Died	3 July 2011

Roderick Pitt "Roddy" Meagher AO QC (1932–2011) was an Australian jurist and former judge.

Meagher was a descendant of William Pitt the Younger and a cousin of Patrick White. His family owned a chain of country stores. In 1949, Meagher was Head Prefect or 'Captain of the School' at St Ignatius' College, Riverview.

In 1956, Meagher graduated from the University of Sydney with degrees in Arts and Law. He was awarded university medals in History and Law. He attended St John's College and was House President there and, later, a member of its governing Council for many years. As a student he also served on the executive of the Sydney University Newman Society.

Meagher was called to the NSW Bar in 1960. He lectured at the Faculty of Law at Sydney University within the same year. After taking Silk, Justice Meagher served as President of the New South Wales Bar Association from 1979 to 1981.

Meagher was a Justice of the NSW Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal of New South Wales from 1989 to 15 March 2004.

He served as a patron to the Macquarie University's Macquarie Journal of Business Law.

He was reported by the NSW Bar Association to have died on the evening of 3 July 2011 at the age of 79.

With William Gummow he co-edited five editions of Jacobs on Trusts and again with Gummow and Lehane he co-authored Equity: Doctrines and Remedies, the preeminent work on equity in Australia. Meagher has also made various contributions to Quadrant. He was described by NSW Chief Justice James Spigelman as "one of the intellectual giants of our legal history".

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