The Barristers practising in Michael Kirby Chambers in Western Australia have chosen as the symbol of its Chambers the long shadow of its namesake, Michael Kirby, signifying his influence upon the development of the law over his lengthy career. We take as our inspiration in  our practice of the law his consistent vigilance in his analysis of the law to ensure that, as he has said, the legal decision-making process does not proceed on the pretence "that the solutions to all of the complex problems of the law today, unresolved by incontestably clear and applicable texts, can be answered by the application of nothing more than purely verbal reasoning and strict logic to words" and must take into account "emotions of ordinary citizens".