Dyson Hore-Lacy SC is a Melbourne

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, human rights advocate, author and former Fitzroy Football Club president.

Legal career

Dyson was admitted to practice in Victoria,

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and was admitted to Victorian Bar in 1967. He has had a distinguished career practising in criminal and commercial law, and was made QC in 1995. An advocate of

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, Dyson has practiced extensively in cases involving human rights abuses in

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, including for Aboriginals in the

and

. He worked as senior counsel in a high-profile complaint to

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. Dyson's expertise are in insurance, discrimination, contracts and cases of medical negligence.

Libel incident

In his book, ''Getting Away with Murder'', author Phil Cleary alleged that Mr Hore-Lacy helped a man who killed his own wife to manufacture a provocation defence. This defamatory allegation was proven to be false, and a jury chose to award Hore-Lacy $30,000 in exemplary damages to punish Cleary and his publisher, in addition to $600,000 in compensatory and aggravated damages.

Chairman of the Fitzroy Football Club

Dyson Hore-Lacy succeeded Leon Wiegard as Chairman of the Fitzroy board after the Gary Pert contractual dispute in 1991. During his tenure, the Fitzroy Football Club faced an existential crisis as the

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sought to force a merger of the club. This crisis was brought to a head on 28 June 1996 when the

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Insurance Company sought repayment of a $1.25 million loan. Mr Hore-Lacy later authored ''Fitzroy'', which detailed his experiences during his time as chairman of the club.

Bibliography

*''Fitzroy'' (Fitzroy : Lion Publications, 2000, )

References

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