Anthony Mason (alƙali)

**Sir Anthony Frank Mason** (an haife shi a ranar 21 ga Afrilu 1925) alkali ne ɗan ƙasar Ostiraliya wanda ya yi aiki a matsayin Babban Alkali na tara na ƙasar Ostiraliya, daga 1987 zuwa 1995. An fara naɗa shi a Babbar Kotun a 1972, bayan ya taɓa yin aiki a Kotun Koli ta New South Wales .

## Rayuwar farko
An haifi Mason a Sydney a ranar 21 ga Afrilu, 1925.  Yana ɗaya daga cikin 'ya'ya huɗu da Eileen ( née ta haifa. McArdle ) da Frank Maxwell Mason. Mahaifinsa, tsohon soja a Yaƙin Duniya na Ɗaya kuma wanda ya karɓi aikin Soja Cross, ya kasance mai rijistar binciken ƙasa wanda ya haɓaka wani aiki mai mahimmanci a Gabar Arewa ta Sydney. Ya yi aiki a matsayin shugaban hukumomin binciken ƙasa na New South Wales don binciken ƙasa da tsara birane. 

Mason ya yi karatunsa na farko a Kincoppal, Elizabeth Bay, inda ya kasance sananne ga babban lauyan tarayya Tom Hughes . [1] Ya ci gaba da zuwa Makarantar Grammar Sydney kuma ya fara sha'awar shari'a ta hanyar kawunsa Harold Mason, wani fitaccen lauya a Sydney wanda ya yi aiki na ɗan lokaci a majalisar jihar. [2] Mahaifiyarsa kuma ta yi niyyar zama lauya tun yana ƙarami. [3] Mahaifin Mason ya saki mahaifiyarsa a 1936, saboda ta yi "shaye-shaye na yau da kullun da kuma sakaci da ayyukan gida". [4] [5] Daga baya mahaifinsa ya sake aure da Elvira Clare "Bobbie" Wood. [6]

Mason ya shiga rundunar sojin sama ta Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) a watan Janairun 1944 a matsayin jirgin sama (AC2). An nada shi a matsayin jami'in tashi a watan Nuwamban 1944 kuma ya fara horo a Kanada a matsayin mai kula da jiragen sama, inda ya shafe sama da awanni 100 a Avro Ansons .  An sallame shi a watan Satumban 1945, a lokacin ne aka tura shi Makarantar Horar da Masu Digiri na Biyu ta Aircrew da ke Calgary . 

## Aikin shari'a

An shigar da Mason a Lauyan New South Wales. Ya shafe shekaru biyar yana koyarwa a fannin shari'a a Jami'ar Sydney, ɗalibansa sun haɗa da Alkalai uku na Babbar Kotun Tarayya, Mary Gaudron, William Gummow da Dyson Heydon . A watan Nuwamba na shekarar 1964, yana da shekaru 39, an sanar da Mason a matsayin sabon Lauyan Gwamnati na Ostiraliya, tare da naɗin da ya yi masa a matsayin Lauyan Sarauniya (QC). Shi ne mutum na farko da ya yi aiki a matsayin lauya mai zaman kansa, domin a da sakataren Ma'aikatar Babban Lauya ne ke riƙe da ofishin.  A shekarar 1966 ya bayyana a gaban abokin aikinsa na Babbar Kotun William Deane, inda ya yi nasarar jayayya cewa Kwamitin Shari'a na Majalisar Sirri ya kamata ya ƙi ɗaukaka ƙara daga shari'ar Babbar Kotun Tarayya ta *R v Anderson; Ex parte IPEC-Air Pty Ltd.*  Ya yi aiki har zuwa 1969 kuma a wannan lokacin ya ba da gudummawa sosai ga ci gaban tsarin dokokin gudanarwa na Commonwealth.

## Aikin shari'a
A shekarar 1969, an naɗa Mason a matsayin alƙali a Kotun Koli ta New South Wales, inda ya zauna a matsayin memba na Kotun Daukaka Kara . A wannan shekarar ne gwamnatin Gorton ta naɗa shi a matsayin shugaban majalisar Jami'ar Ƙasa ta Australia na tsawon shekaru uku.  Ya yi aiki a Kotun Koli har zuwa 1972, lokacin da aka naɗa shi a benci na Babbar Kotun Ostiraliya  kuma ya sami lambar yabo ta jarumi ( KBE ). Bayan shekaru goma sha biyar a Babbar Kotun, kuma bayan ritayar Sir Harry Gibbs, a 1987 an naɗa Mason Babban Alkali; ya yi ritaya a 1995 bayan ya kai shekarun ritaya na dole a kundin tsarin mulki na shekaru 70.

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