Philip Lewis Griffiths
Philip Lewis Griffiths KC (30 September 1881 – 4 June 1945) was an eminent Australian jurist.
Education
[edit]Educated at Caulfield Grammar School, he studied for a Master of Arts degree at the Trinity College of the University of Melbourne.
Journalist
[edit]He then wrote for The Mercury in both Hobart and Launceston.
Law
[edit]He studied law at the University of Tasmania, earning an LLB.[1] While working as a lawyer, he also lectured at the University of Tasmania from 1913 to 1930, focusing on torts and criminal law.
In 1930 Griffiths was appointed as the Solicitor-General of Tasmania, and in August 1933 he was made a King's Counsel. From August 1938 to March 1939 Griffiths was acting Chief Judge of the Mandated Territory of New Guinea; he then became the Second Judge of New Guinea, serving in the acting Chief Judge position again during 1940.
Death
[edit]He died, in Hobart, on 4 June 1945.[2]
See also
[edit]Footnotes
[edit]References
[edit]- Roe, Michael. "Griffiths, Philip Lewis (1881–1945)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 27 October 2013.
- New Guinea Judge: A Tasmanian Appointed, The West Australian, (Friday, 16 June 1939), p. 18.
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