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Legacy.
In 2000 the New South Wales Bar Association established the Sir Maurice Byers Lecture, to be given by a distinguished jurist on an area of constitutional or public law, in memory of Byers' contribution to these areas.
The Sydney Law School of the University of Sydney offers the Sir Maurice Byers Prize for Proficiency in Constitutional Law.
Maurice Byers
Sir Maurice Hearne Byers (10 November 191717 January 1999) was a noted Australian jurist and constitutional expert. He was the Commonwealth Solicitor-General from 1973 to 1983, in which capacity he played a role in the Gair Affair and the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis. He had an unmatched record of success in his appearances before the High Court of Australia, and he has been characterised as the finest lawyer never to have been appointed to the High Court.
Career.
Maurice Byers was born on 10 November