| Description |
xvii, 317 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 22 cm |
| Series |
Lives of the Australian Chief Justices |
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Lives of the Australian chief justices.
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| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1.An "Erratic and Wandering Race" -- 2."The Largest Business of Any Man at the Bar" -- 3."Active Politics Always Bored Him" -- 4.Some Lawyers' Laws and Law Reforms -- 5.Defence -- "The Dawn of Australia as a Nation" -- 6.Taking Silk: Taking Leave: and Taking Stock -- 7.(Sir) Julian Salomons: The Phantom Chief Justice -- 8."A Great Public Duty" -- 9."I Never Aspired to the Bench" -- 10.Industrial Law -- or Politics? -- 11.Crown Land Legislation -- "an unintelligible chaos" -- 12.Diametrical Opposites -- 13.Representing the Queen -- 14."The Return of the Native" |
| Summary |
J M Bennett's Sir Frederick Darley, the new biography in his acclaimed Lives of the Australian Chief Justices series, describes in fascinating detail one of the most extraordinary episodes in Australian judicial history. In November 1886, the circumstances being unprecedented, New South Wales had three successive Chief Justices |
| Analysis |
Australian |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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LAW |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-303) and index |
| Notes |
© The Federation Press |
| Subject |
Darley, Frederick Matthew, Sir, 1830-1910
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Salomons, Julian, Sir, -1909
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Judges -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Author |
Mason, Keith, writer of forweord
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| ISBN |
9781760020569 |
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