Chief justice: Facts

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Julian Salomons was the only chief justice in New South Wales to resign before he was sworn into office?
Serranus Clinton Hastings served as chief justice of both the Iowa and California Supreme Courts?
Hugh Denis Macrossan was one of Queensland's shortest serving chief justices, a post also held by his brother and his nephew?
Ewan Crawford of the Supreme Court of Tasmania is the first Australian chief justice to stop using ceremonial court robes?
chief justice Frederick Richard Jordan once decided that the government of New South Wales had "no business" refusing a water irrigation licence just because the applicant was Italian?
Australian James Blair introduced laws to protect children by establishing a children's court, and by preventing unjust disinheritance in parents' wills, before he became chief justice of Queensland?

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