16 Facts About Laurence Street

Laurence Street was the third generation of the Street family to serve in these viceregal offices and the youngest since 1844.

Laurence Street chaired the integration of protocols between the Australian Federal Police and the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, and he chaired naval warship acquisitions.

Laurence Street pioneered alternative dispute resolution, worked prolifically in mediation, and he ascertained the return to Australia of the remains of 17 Indigenous Australians from the National History Museum in London, the first such mediation.

Laurence Street was the grandson of Sir Philip Whistler Street.

Laurence Street's mother Jessie was a prominent suffragette, the daughter of Charles Alfred Gordon Lillingston, and Mabel Harriet Ogilvie, who was in turn the daughter of Australian politician Edward David Stuart Ogilvie.

Laurence Street became a barrister at the New South Wales Bar in 1951.

In 1974, at age 47, Laurence Street became the youngest Chief Justice since 1844.

Laurence Street retired in 1988 and was appointed Companion of the Order of Australia in 1989.

Laurence Street held office as Australian and world president of the International Law Association, London of which he was a life vice president.

Laurence Street was a member of several professional organisations, including an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Institute of Building and an Honorary Member of the Society of Construction Law Australia.

Laurence Street was a patron of the Jessie Street National Women's Library and the Jessie Street Trust, which uphold his mother's legacy in women's rights and Indigenous Australian rights.

In 2007, Laurence Street led the review of a decision by Queensland's Director of Public Prosecution in the 2004 case of an Indigenous Australian death in custody, and conducted the first mediation over the return to Australia of Indigenous Australian remains from the National History Museum in London.

Kenneth Laurence Street is a businessman with three children by his wife Sarah Laurence Street.

Laurence Street graduated from Sydney Law School and is married to Arthur Emmett, a federal judge and Challis Lecturer in Roman Law at Sydney Law School.

Sir Laurence's only child by his second wife and widow Lady Street is Jessie Street, a graduate of Sydney Law School and the god-daughter of King Charles III.

Laurence Street died on 21 June 2018 and had a state funeral at the Sydney Opera House in July 2018.