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甘慕賢（William Montague Charles Gummow），AC，1942年生於澳洲悉尼，先後就讀悉尼文法學校及悉尼大學，取得文學士及法學碩士學位。他於1966年在新南威爾斯州獲准從事律師業務，執業十年後，於1976年取得該州大律師資格，1986年獲委任為御用大律師，並曾在大學兼職任教長達三十年，作育法律人才。1975年，他與RP Meagher御用大律師及JRF Lehane合著《Equity: Doctrines and Remedies》一書，成為澳洲衡平法的重要教材，並曾與Meagher合編《Jacobs' Law of Trusts in Australia》其中四版；1999年他應邀在牛津大學發表Clarendon講座，講稿以《Change and Continuity》為題結集成書。1986年至1995年，他出任澳洲聯邦法院法官；1995年至2012年，他出任澳洲高等法院（該國最高法院）法官，至法定退休年齡為止，其間就聯邦法、衡平法及憲法議題撰寫大量判詞，1997年獲頒澳洲勳章（AC），2013年起出任悉尼大學法學教授。2013年，他獲委任為香港終審法院非常任法官，其後多次來港參與終審法院的聆訊，並撰寫多份重要判詞，令本地法理更臻豐富，司法機構形容其判詞對本港法學貢獻重大；他最後一次出庭為2026年5月。2026年9月17日，甘慕賢逝世，享年八十三歲，香港司法機構及香港律師會均表示深切哀悼，澳洲高等法院亦發聲明悼念，讚揚他學養深厚、分析嚴謹，對澳洲法律貢獻良多。
English
William Montague Charles Gummow, AC, was born in Sydney in 1942 and educated at Sydney Grammar School and the University of Sydney, where he took a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Laws. Admitted as a solicitor in New South Wales in 1966, he was called to that state's Bar in 1976 after ten years in practice and took silk in 1986, lecturing part-time for some thirty years. He co-authored 'Equity: Doctrines and Remedies' in 1975 and co-edited four editions of 'Jacobs' Law of Trusts in Australia', and delivered the Clarendon Lectures at Oxford in 1999, published as 'Change and Continuity'. A Judge of the Federal Court of Australia from 1986 to 1995, he sat on the High Court of Australia from 1995 until his retirement in 2012, writing widely on federal, equity and constitutional law, and became a Professor of Law at the University of Sydney in 2013. Appointed a Non-Permanent Judge of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal in 2013, he sat on the CFA on several occasions, last appearing in May 2026. He died on 17 September 2026, aged 83, and the Hong Kong Judiciary expressed deep sorrow at his passing.
