Education
After schooling at Scotch College, Melbourne, he graduated from the University of Melbourne in law and completed a Doctor of Philosophy in defamation at Monash University in 1973.
After schooling at Scotch College, Melbourne, he graduated from the University of Melbourne in law and completed a Doctor of Philosophy in defamation at Monash University in 1973.
Hayes was a qualified solicitor, barrister, quasi-judicial officer, law reform commissioner, government consultant, legal publisher, and law lecturer. His international appointments included lecturing at the Law Schools of McGill, Montreal and the University of Toronto. He had an extensive list of publications, his most recent was Criminal Law and Procedure in New South Wales which he co-authored with Michael Eburn, a senior lecturer at the University of New England, Australia.
Hayes was married with four children from a previous marriage.
He resided in Sydney"s Eastern Suburbs.
