doubted since Jordan first published them all those years ago. The foreword was written by Roderick Meagher ,then a leading barrister and lecturer in the Faculty of Law at Sydney University, who stated that an indication of the 'current utility' of Sir Frederick's work was the reliance on them in recent High Court decisions, by reference to Legione v Hatley, and Hewett v Court. On a lighter note, Roderick Meagher, by then a judge on the NSW Court of Appeal, argued that one particular footnote in "Chapters On Equity", was wrong. Meagher JA stated that "Great as is the homage we all owe to Sir Frederick Jordan, one must state that the footnote is nonsense. It has, of course, been approved by the High Court on about four occasions ... but that does not convert it into sense". Meagher JA then sets out why he says the footnote was wrong. Chief Justice Spigelman would later observe that the High Court judgments, to which Meagher JA referred with such scorn, were those mentioned in the foreword by Meagher JA as an indication of the 'current utility' of Sir Frederick's great work. An article by Justice David Ipp written in a similar vein discusses one of Jordan's decision on malicious prosecution, and humorously suggests that Jordan may have been "recalcitrant". Jordan was widely read and wrote notes as a review and impression of what he read as well as a collection of quotations and epigrams recording his observation of analogies and parallels found in literary works written across centuries in English, Greek, Latin, French, Italian and German. His long-time friend Sir Lionel Lindsay had these published under the titles Appreciations and Parallels. Notes References Sources Who's Who in Australia 1935, p. 262 1881 births 1949 deaths Australian King's Counsel Chief Justices of New South Wales Lieutenant-Governors of New South Wales Australian Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George People educated at Sydney Boys High School English emigrants to Australia People from Sydney Sydney Law School alumni