Early Life and Education
Patrick Anthony Keane was born to Patrick and Margaret Keane in a family of Irish descent and was raised in Wilston, a middle-class, inner-city suburb north of Brisbane CBD, Queensland. The senior Patrick was an RAAF aviator who died from a heart attack when the younger Patrick was 7.
Keane was educated at Catholic schools, namely St. Columba's Convent School and St. Joseph's College, Gregory Terrace in Brisbane, where he was the school captain and dux of 1969, winning an Open Scholarship in the Queensland Senior Public Examinations. After eliminating other vocations, he matriculated at the University of Queensland to study a Bachelor of Arts, graduating in 1973, and, later, a Bachelor of Laws, graduating with First-Class Honours and a University Medal in 1976.
During his studies, Keane worked as a law clerk at Roberts & Kane Solicitors and was headhunted by Feez Ruthning (now Allens Linklaters) by one of the partners.
Subsequent to this, Keane read for a Bachelor of Civil Law at Magdalen College of the University of Oxford and was awarded the Vinerian Scholarship, a scholarship given to the student that "gives the best performance in the examination for the Degree of Bachelor of Civil Law". Having earned a B.C.L. with First-Class Honours in 1977, he then returned to Australia.
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