Author: James MudiePublisher:
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Category : Exiles
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The Felony of New South Wales
A History of Criminal Law in New South Wales
Author: Gregory D. WoodsPublisher: Federation Press
ISBN: 9781862874398
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
New South Wales is that rare political creation, a state founded for and upon the criminal law. The history of its criminal law from settlement to Federation is uniquely fascinating. Drawing on his range of experience as a university scholar, a criminal law QC and a judge, the author explains how Britain's criminal laws were established and developed in its (arguably) most successful colony. There are three themes:the horror and savagery of the criminal law transported to Australia and imposed there;the constitutional importance of basic criminal law rules requiring certainty of proof;the corrupt but necessary role of mercy in the administration of the law.There are several genuinely remarkable features of this book. One is that the author draws upon a vast body of material recently brought to light by Bruce Kercher in his massive disinterment of early colonial case law, to explain in detail the actual working of the New South Wales criminal courts.Another is that the core of the book is an analysis of New South Wales parliamentary debates between 1871 and 1883 on criminal law, illuminating the history of the law (and its future). Yet the most remarkable thing of all about this book is its rarity. In the many places where the British Empire imposed its laws, there are hundreds of universities and centres of legal study.Histories of the criminal law, or studies which can be so described, are rare or invisible. This admirable study will become a classic in its field, required reading by legal scholars, historians of colony and empire, and by astute legal practitioners making arguments for contemporary submissions or judgments.The second volume (Woods, 2018) continues the still-fascinating story from 1901 (when the colony became a state) through until mid-20th century, when the death penalty was effectively abolished.
The Weekly Notes, New South Wales
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
The New South Wales Law Reports
Author: New South Wales. Supreme CourtPublisher:
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
In three series: 1. Cases at law -- 2. Cases in equity -- 3. Matrimonial cases.
The New South Wales Law Reports, 1880-1900
Author: New South Wales. Supreme CourtPublisher:
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1134
Book Description
The Constitution of New South Wales
Author: Anne TwomeyPublisher: Federation Press
ISBN: 9781862875166
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 966
Book Description
Places the constitutional framework of the State in its historical and political context and provides for the first time a detailed analysis of all the provisions of the Constitution Act 1902 (NSW) including their legislative history and examples of their use.
Report on the Judicial Establishments of New South Wales
Author: John Thomas BiggePublisher: Good Press
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
"Report on the Judicial Establishments of New South Wales" is the second report by English judge and royal commissioner John Thomas Bigge on the situation in the colonies. His inquiry started as several wealthy landowners, mainly John Macarthur, complained about the governorship of Lachlan Macquarie. The latter was famous for his policies of remediating ex-convicts back into society, creating a lack of a cheap and free workforce for the landowners. In this report, Bigge focused upon a defamation action launched by Samuel Marsden to argue against the appointment of emancipated convicts to positions of magistrates and jurors. Bigge thought these policies promoting emancipists by Macquarie were "inexpedient and dangerous."
A Collection of Statutes Affecting New South Wales
Author: New South WalesPublisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1110
Book Description
Author: New South Wales
Author: New South Wales