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John Nagle
John Hailes Flood "Gaffer" Nagle (1913–2009) was a lawyer, soldier and prominent jurist, who served as a justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Australia, from 1960 until 1983. Nagle led high-profile inquiries into the NSW Department of Corrective Services and the assassination of political candidate Donald Mackay.
Born on 10 July 1913, Nagle was the second of nine children. His father, Valentine Flood Nagle, was a solicitor in Albury.[citation needed] Nagle entered the University of Sydney, residing at St John's College at age 15, completing an arts degree in 1932. Four years later, he completed a law degree, allowing him to follow in the footsteps of his father, grandfather and great-grandfather, all lawyers.[citation needed]
A few months after Nagle was admitted to the bar, Australia declared war on Germany. Nagle enlisted and served in the 2/5th Field Regiment, seeing action in Egypt, Syria and Lebanon. Following Japan's entry into the war, the regiment was deployed to the South Pacific, where Nagle served as a paratrooper. By the war's end, he had risen to the rank of major and was second-in-command of his battalion.[citation needed]
In 1944, he married Stephanie Mary Gilronan Scott and they had one child, Winsome. The marriage ended in 1950.[citation needed]
An avid sportsman, Nagle represented the Riverina district in rugby and Jaguar in the Monte Carlo Rally.
Following the war, Nagle returned to legal practice. Among his contemporaries in Sydney's legal fraternity were future Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and future Governor-General Sir William Deane. In 1960, Nagle was appointed to the State's Supreme Court by the Heffron Labor Government, just a year after taking silk.
Nagle enjoyed the respect of politicians on both sides, however, and was selected by the Willis Liberal Government to head a royal commission into the State's troubled prison system in 1976. Two months later, with the Liberals out of office, newly-elected Labor Premier Neville Wran removed the two other members of the commission, leaving Nagle to preside alone.
Nagle handed down his report in March 1978. Its 630 pages excoriated "an inefficient Department administering antiquated and disgraceful gaols; untrained and sometimes ignorant prison officers, resentful, intransigent and incapable of performing their tasks." The first of its 252 recommendations was the sacking of Commissioner of Corrective Services Walter McGeechan – though the Government dismissed McGeechan shortly before receiving Nagle's final report.
John Nagle
John Hailes Flood "Gaffer" Nagle (1913–2009) was a lawyer, soldier and prominent jurist, who served as a justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Australia, from 1960 until 1983. Nagle led high-profile inquiries into the NSW Department of Corrective Services and the assassination of political candidate Donald Mackay.
Born on 10 July 1913, Nagle was the second of nine children. His father, Valentine Flood Nagle, was a solicitor in Albury.[citation needed] Nagle entered the University of Sydney, residing at St John's College at age 15, completing an arts degree in 1932. Four years later, he completed a law degree, allowing him to follow in the footsteps of his father, grandfather and great-grandfather, all lawyers.[citation needed]
A few months after Nagle was admitted to the bar, Australia declared war on Germany. Nagle enlisted and served in the 2/5th Field Regiment, seeing action in Egypt, Syria and Lebanon. Following Japan's entry into the war, the regiment was deployed to the South Pacific, where Nagle served as a paratrooper. By the war's end, he had risen to the rank of major and was second-in-command of his battalion.[citation needed]
In 1944, he married Stephanie Mary Gilronan Scott and they had one child, Winsome. The marriage ended in 1950.[citation needed]
An avid sportsman, Nagle represented the Riverina district in rugby and Jaguar in the Monte Carlo Rally.
Following the war, Nagle returned to legal practice. Among his contemporaries in Sydney's legal fraternity were future Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and future Governor-General Sir William Deane. In 1960, Nagle was appointed to the State's Supreme Court by the Heffron Labor Government, just a year after taking silk.
Nagle enjoyed the respect of politicians on both sides, however, and was selected by the Willis Liberal Government to head a royal commission into the State's troubled prison system in 1976. Two months later, with the Liberals out of office, newly-elected Labor Premier Neville Wran removed the two other members of the commission, leaving Nagle to preside alone.
Nagle handed down his report in March 1978. Its 630 pages excoriated "an inefficient Department administering antiquated and disgraceful gaols; untrained and sometimes ignorant prison officers, resentful, intransigent and incapable of performing their tasks." The first of its 252 recommendations was the sacking of Commissioner of Corrective Services Walter McGeechan – though the Government dismissed McGeechan shortly before receiving Nagle's final report.