“In civilised life, law floats in a sea of ethics”
Justice Lex Lasry of the Supreme Court of Victoria delivered the fourth Tony Fitzgerald Memorial Lecture at Darwin on 23 June 2016. Central to his wide-ranging and characteristically pungent address were his reflections on US Supreme Court Earl Warren’s famous remark “In civilised life, law floats in a sea of ethics”. If you missed Lasry J’s lecture, it is now available to read here.