Wilfred Fullagar
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The Honourable Sir Wilfred Fullagar KBE QC |
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| Justice of the High Court of Australia | |
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In office 8 February 1950 – 9 July 1961 |
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| Nominated by | Robert Menzies |
| Preceded by | Sir Hayden Starke |
| Succeeded by | Sir William Owen |
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| Born | 16 November 1892 Malvern, Victoria, Australia |
| Died | 9 July 1961 |
Sir Wilfred Kelsham Fullagar, KBE, QC (16 November 1892 – 9 July 1961) was a judge on the High Court of Australia.
Wilfred Kelsham Fullagar was born in Malvern, Melbourne, on 16 November 1892. He was educated at Haileybury College. He studied at the University of Melbourne, where he resided at Ormond College. He graduated from the university with a Master of Arts and Master of Laws, also winning the Supreme Court of Victoria's Prize in Law.
During World War I he served in the 27th Battery, Australian Field Artillery, part of the First Australian Imperial Force, enlisting as a Gunner on 28 October 1916 and retiring as a Sergeant in 1919. In October of that year, he married Marion Lovejoy in London, with whom he would later have five sons (including Richard Fullagar, a future Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria). After returning to Australia, he was employed by the Government of Australia, first in the Repatriation Department, and then in the Department of Immigration. He was admitted to the Victorian Bar in 1922.
Fullagar lectured at the University of Melbourne from 1923 to 1928, in tort and legal procedure. He would later return to lecture from 1943 to 1945 in Australian constitutional law. He made several appearances before the High Court, and in 1932 appeared in three cases argued before the Privy Council, including the inconspicuously named but significant Dried Fruits case, and Attorney-General (NSW) v Trethowan, the case that considered whether a referendum was necessary to abolish the Legislative Council of New South Wales. Fullagar was junior counsel in those cases to Sir William Jowitt, a future Lord Chancellor, and Sir John Latham, a future Chief Justice of Australia, respectively.
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