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9 MLAANZ Journal 1 (1993)

handle is hein.journals/ausnewma9 and id is 1 raw text is: Frank Stewart Dethridge Memorial Lecture 1991 The Hon. Mr Justice David Malcolm Chief Justice of Western Australia THE NEGLIGENT PILOT AND THE HIMALAYA CLAUSE: A SAGA OF DISAGREEMENT It is a great honour to be invited to deliver to the 1991 Frank Dethridge Memorial Address. My consciousness of the honour is made particularly acute by even the most cursory examination of the list of distinguished and learned jurists who have delivered this address. The purpose of the address is, of course, to honour the memory of Frank Stewart Dethridge who was the founding President of the Maritime Law Association which was estab- lished on 1 April 1974. Mr Dethridge presided over the first meeting of members of the Association in May 1975. At the time of the meeting in the following year, however, he fell ill and died in June 1976. It was then that the decision was taken that this address should be given at each annual meeting of the Association. The first of the addresses was given by Sir Ninian Stephen, a Justice of the High Court of Australia. Sir Ninian knew Frank Dethridge personally. I knew him only by reputation as the senior partner of Mallesons. Fourteen years ago when concluding the first of these addresses Sir Ninian described Frank Dethridge as follows: He was a man learned in the law and with a great interest in and much experience of shipping law. Those members of the Victorian Bar fortunate enough to be briefed by him in shipping matters were the wiser for his counsel. His wisdom, kindness and moderation will long be remembered in the profession. He had developed to an exquisite degree that high art of the instructing solicitor, how to teach counsel what he does not know but needs to learn for the case in hand, while conveying the impression all the while that it is he, the instructing solicitor, who is collecting pearls of wisdom as they fall from counsel's lips.

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