Original sentence: As chief justice, he led what was called the “Spring Offensive”.He was a retired judge and also a retired Chief Justice of Victoria.He was said to have attended a black tie dinner event wearing a suit and desert boots.In 1998 he was made a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) for “services to the law, law reform, literature and the visual arts”.In December 2003 appeared at Victoria Law School as Ned Kelly in the dramatisation of his play  “An Irish Tragedy”.John Harber Phillips AC QC (born 18 October 1933, died 7 August 2009) was an Australian barrister and an author
Edited sentence: As Chief Justice, he led what was called the “Spring Offensive”.He was a judge and also a Chief Justice of Victoria.In 1998 he was made a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) for "services to the law, law reform, literature and the visual arts".In December 2003 he appeared at Victoria Law School as Ned Kelly in the dramatisation of his play An Irish Tragedy.John Harber Phillips AC QC (18 October 19337 August 2009) was an Australian barrister and an author.John Harber Phillips died on 7 August 2009, aged 75, after a long illness