An Australian professor and judge dies.
[Roddy] Meagher was … Challis lecturer in principles of equity and Roman law at the University of Sydney for many years. He wrote important books and monographs on several topics, most significantly Equity: Doctrines and Remedies with W.M.C. Gummow and J.R.F. Lehane.
He taught legions of students at the law school on Phillip Street over almost three decades, some of whom complained that he talked to a painting on the wall rather than to them. He said he was shy and did not know quite where to look, so he just looked to one side.
… He valued beauty, honesty, humour, loyalty and scholarship and was the most devoted friend imaginable. He loathed foolishness, hypocrisy and pretension…