“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.