R3T Chrome Bling project by Ishrub

Jay said:

Maybe he was in the running of the Bulls, or the Oz equivalent, and got caught riding down a very narrow alley.

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Ishrub said:

Unfortunately he died of the big C.

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Jay said:

Maybe he was in the running of the Bulls, or the Oz equivalent, and got caught riding down a very narrow alley.

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Stillserving said:

Car accident?...….Those **** things are dangerous!

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barbagris said:

Ah yes - Eaten by a Bloody Great Tiger.

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Andrew James Lidden was born on 20 February 1954, a Southern Highlander through and through. He read law at the Australian National University. His legendary passion for all things automotive was well entrenched by his early teens and started with motorcycles. He promptly became and remained a collector of cars and motorcycles.

Lidden was called to the bar in 1978. He became a member of Frederick Jordan Chambers. In those days a clerk of chambers would simply allocate cases to those available and keen which meant juniors had to be fast learners. Lidden was fearless and bright and as a result appeared in every jurisdiction. Even back then, he would hold his pink ribboned brief in one hand and a motorcycle magazine in the other.
....He managed the enormous workload of administering the country’s largest chambers and his huge practice right up until his passing. In the course of his career performing plaintiff personal injury work vast reforms took place across motor vehicle, workplace and public liability accidents. Lidden was at the forefront of finding ways to get more for those whose common law entitlements were ever increasingly eroded by government.
.....When once asked by a District Court judge whether he had any authority for a proposition he was advancing the reply was immediate 'Yes Your Honour, Lidden on the bleeding obvious…'

After taking silk in 2006 it was his intention to continue with his prolific practice until his children were settled into university. He looked forward to a time when he would take on fewer and more interesting cases perhaps returning to crime. His illness deprived him of that opportunity and deprived us the opportunity to see him become a great statesman of the Common Law Bar. He was devoted to his family, his wife Elleanor and their children William and Zara.

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