Abstract
This article examines the role of a judge's social background and the role of the leadership of the chief justice in explaining variations in dissent rates on the High Court of Australia between 1903 and 1975. It is of interest for students of comparative judicial politics because it is the first study to consider whether many of the factors which have been used to explain variations in dissent rates for the United States Supreme Court are applicable to courts outside the United States. The study finds that Latham's period as chief justice had a statistically significant negative effect on the dissent rate while there is mixed support for the hypotheses linking dissent rates to judges' social background.
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