Daryl Dawson completed his undergraduate education at the University of Melbourne, living at Ormond College and received a Bachelor of Laws with honours.
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Daryl Dawson later completed a Master of Laws at Yale University on a Fulbright Scholarship.
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Daryl Dawson was admitted to the Victorian Bar in 1957.
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Daryl Dawson was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 1971, and served as the Solicitor-General of Victoria from 1974 to 1982.
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Daryl Dawson was a member of the Australian Motor Sport Appeal Court from 1974 to 1986, and was the chairman of this court in 1987.
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Daryl Dawson was notably the only justice in Australian Capital Television v Commonwealth to argue there was no implied freedom of political communication in the Australian Constitution, although he revised his position on this issue in Lange v Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
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From 1997 until 2003, Daryl Dawson served as a non-permanent judge of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal.
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Daryl Dawson is currently a professorial fellow at the Melbourne Law School, and an adjunct professor at Monash University.
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Daryl Dawson headed a Royal Commission into the 1998 explosion at a natural gas processing plant at Longford, which killed two people and crippled Victoria's energy supply for weeks.
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In 1980, Daryl Dawson was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath.
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In 1986, Daryl Dawson was made a Companion of the Order of Australia; at the time, Australia's highest civilian honour.