Thankfully, the ongoing family drama had no impact on the younger Cassidy's stellar audition! Alicia Keys and Adam Levine both swiveled their chairs and began competing for his loyalty without having any clue that he's a "Partridge Family" descendant. David, who's made headlines over the years for substance abuse, legal problems and a tumultuous relationship with his family, revealed in February that he's battling dementia.
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The beautiful performance is a much-needed positive update for the Cassidy clan. The teenager stunned on Monday's episode of "The Voice" with a rendition of Joan Osborne's "One Of Us" - and he didn't need the family name to do it! Survived by his wife and son, he died on 11 June 1975 in St Luke's Hospital, Darlinghurst, and was cremated.Just a few days after his uncle, David Cassidy, performed his last-ever concert, 18-year-old Jack Cassidy made his official debut. in 1964 for her work in community services. He was also a founder of the Woollahra Action Committee, then influential in the selection of candidates for Woollahra Municipal Council.Ī director of David Lynn Ltd, Industrial Steels Ltd, Mainguard (Australia) Ltd and other companies, Cassidy lived in the Eastern Suburbs, played golf and tennis, and belonged to the Australian, University and Royal Sydney Golf clubs. In 1945 he was founding chairman of the Political Research Society Ltd, set up to investigate any organization or party (especially the Communist Party of Australia) 'which appears to be deceiving the public'. Gwen was a member of its provisional executive, while Jack was vice-president (1945-56) of the New South Wales division. He and his wife were active in establishing the Liberal Party of Australia.
in particular with leading overseas scholars'.Ĭlosely involved in the corporate organization of the Bar, Cassidy was a founder and chairman of Counsel's Chambers Ltd, and arranged for the construction of Wentworth and Selborne chambers as principal buildings to house the Bar. His practice demanded most of his time, but he often surprised colleagues 'by the wide range of his interests and contacts. He was senior counsel for the defendant in the protracted 'American Flange-Rheem' litigation (1962-63), in which his closing address occupied seventy-two days. Back in Sydney, in the 1940s and 1950s Cassidy held retainers for the respective proprietors of the Daily Telegraph, Truth and the Daily Mirror, and accordingly appeared in many defamation trials.
In London for that purpose, he visited Germany to observe the trials of war criminals by the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. Bell, before the High Court of Australia and the Privy Council. He appeared in many causes célèbres and represented the defendant in appeals (1945-47) in the notable medical negligence proceedings, Hocking v.
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Waterhouse.Ī 'born trial lawyer', with 'an amazing record of forensic successes' and outstanding skill as a cross-examiner in all jurisdictions, Cassidy was one of the great advocates of his generation and took silk on 24 October 1938. On 19 December 1928 at St Martin's Anglican Church, Killara, he married Gwynneth (Gwen) Jeannie, daughter of G. Cassidy augmented that colour by his own energetic style. He established himself on the first floor of old Selborne Chambers, Phillip Street, which, as he wrote, 'provided a collection of practitioners.
Cassidy served articles of clerkship with the Sydney solicitors Sly & Russell before being admitted to the Bar on 23 February 1922. An evening student at the University of Sydney (B.A., 1917 LL.B., 1920), he paid his way by teaching at Abbotsholme College, Killara, where his pupils included Harold Holt. Jack went to Mudgee District Public School, passed the senior public examination in 1911 and in February 1912 became a cadet draftsman in the Department of Lands. She was to die, aged 99, at Muswellbrook, outliving Jack and six of her other children. Mary, who had been only 16 when married, became a schoolteacher at Newcastle. Sir Jack Evelyn Cassidy (1893-1975), barrister, was born on 12 June 1893 at Hargraves, New South Wales, eldest of ten children of native-born parents John Wilson Cassidy, schoolteacher, and his wife Mary Catherine, née Smith, both of Northern Irish stock.
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