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Book Synopsis Sir Archibald Burt by : John Michael Bennett
Download or read book Sir Archibald Burt written by John Michael Bennett and published by Federation Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archibald Paull Burt, "reputed to be the ablest lawyer in the West Indies", arrived in Western Australia in 1861 at the age of 50 when bureaucratic disputes blocked his preferment in the Caribbean. He advised the government on the need for a Supreme Court of comprehensive jurisdiction and helped to see into place that and many other legal and constitutional changes. He was appointed first Cheif Justice of the colony, and until his death in 1879, he was the Colony's sole judge.
Book Synopsis The Milk Jug Was a Goat by : Chris Birch
Download or read book The Milk Jug Was a Goat written by Chris Birch and published by E-Books Publisher. This book was released on 2011-06-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sir Henry Wrenfordsley by : John Michael Bennett
Download or read book Sir Henry Wrenfordsley written by John Michael Bennett and published by Federation Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all Chief Justices in Australia in the 19th century none so demeaned the office as did Sir Henry Wrenfordsley, second Chief Justice of Western Australia.Moving from an indifferent practice as a Dublin solicitor to a very insecure career as an English barrister, Wrenfordsley won notice for his interest in Conservative politics, twice standing unsuccessfully for Parliament. An able public speaker and a companionable guest at gentlemen's clubs, he obtained a colonial judicial appointment through patronage.He served in Mauritius before being appointed Chief Justice of Western Australia and then of Fiji. He acted as a judge in Tasmania and Victoria and finally was Chief Justice of the Leeward Islands. In every office he collided with colonial administrators and fellow lawyers and was in constant dispute with the Colonial Office.A weak lawyer, he was ridiculed as a "journeyman judge" and a "gallery judge" who turned the court into a theatre. His public career was marked by every bad judicial quality - incompetence, duplicity, interference in politics, laziness, uncontrollable temper, chronic insolvency, and overwhelming self-importance, among them.The Western Australian State Set of Lives of Australian Chief Justices, which includes, Sir Archibald Burt, Sir Henry Wrenfordsley and Sir Alexander Onslow is available for $130.00 - to order the WA State Set, click here.
Book Synopsis Henry Prinsep’s Empire by : Malcolm Allbrook
Download or read book Henry Prinsep’s Empire written by Malcolm Allbrook and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Prinsep is known as Western Australia’s first Chief Protector of Aborigines in the colonial government of Sir John Forrest, a period which saw the introduction of oppressive laws that dominated the lives of Aboriginal people for most of the twentieth century. But he was also an artist, horse-trader, member of a prominent East India Company family, and everyday citizen, whose identity was formed during his colonial upbringing in India and England. As a creator of Imperial culture, he supported the great men and women of history while he painted, wrote about and photographed the scenes around him. In terms of naked power he was a middle man, perhaps even a small man. His empire is an intensely personal place, a vast network of family and friends from every quarter of the British imperial world, engaged in the common tasks of making a home and a career, while framing new identities, new imaginings and new relationships with each other, indigenous peoples and fellow colonists. This book traces Henry Prinsep’s life from India to Western Australia and shows how these texts and images illuminate not only Prinsep the man, but the affectionate bonds that endured despite the geographic bounds of empire, and the historical, social, geographic and economic origins of Aboriginal and colonial relationships which are important to this day.
Download or read book Brothers written by Antonio Buti and published by Fremantle Press. This book was released on 2020-02-26 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utilizing court transcripts and interviews, this is the gripping account of a courtroom drama that titillated the public during an era of crooked cops and corporate fraud. When the Perth Mint was swindled out of more than a half-million dollars worth of gold, the local police thought they had the culprits: the Mickelberg brothers—Ray, Peter, and Brian. Already accused of defrauding Australian millionaire Alan Bond by manufacturing a phony gold nugget, the Mickelbergs were tried and convicted despite the fact that the gold was never found. A cutting-edge analysis of the legal process and the trials and tribulations of seeking justice in a corrupt system, this chronicle depicts the nearly 30 years the Mickelbergs fought to prove their innocence and the mysterious death of Brian and the violent and untimely ends of two corrupt officers.
Book Synopsis A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry ... by : Bernard Burke
Download or read book A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry ... written by Bernard Burke and published by London : Harrison. This book was released on 1895 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of Printed Books by : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Download or read book Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire by :
Download or read book Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire written by and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 1562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Armorial Families by : Arthur Charles Fox-Davies
Download or read book Armorial Families written by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland by : Bernard Burke
Download or read book A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland written by Bernard Burke and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 1196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sir Alfred Stephen by : John Michael Bennett
Download or read book Sir Alfred Stephen written by John Michael Bennett and published by Federation Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Alfred Stephen (1802-1894) was descended from generations of Stephens celebrated in England for their contributions to the law, literature, politics and public administration. A creature of the nineteenth century, Sir Alfred personified its values. Born at St Kitts, educated in England and there called to the Bar, he at first progressed so slowly that he decided to return to the colonies. As a pioneer Crown Law Officer in Tasmania he was ambitious, aggressive, and astonishingly successful financially. But, lacking tact, he fell out with the Lt-Governor and the judiciary.Taking another chance, he accepted a temporary judgeship at Sydney (1839), won immediate respect, and became Chief Justice (1844), serving with great accomplishment until 1873 - a term never equaled in New South Wales. He was first President of the Legislative Council after Responsible Government (1856), returning to the Council on resigning as Chief Justice. His many public services included being Lt-Governor; helping to establish The University of Sydney; and supporting such institutions as hospitals, museums and art galleries. Despite the difficulty, on a fixed income, of providing for his many children, he was great philanthropist.His name and works, now much forgotten, but of world renown in his day, are recalled in this biography by Dr John Michael Bennett, AM, whose project to write it was awarded the 2006 News South Wales History Fellowship.The NSW State Set of Lives of Australian Chief Justices, which includes, Sir Francis Forbes, Sir James Dowling, Sir Alfred Stephen, Sir James Martin and Sir Frederick Darley is available for $210.00 - to order the NSW State Set, click here.
Book Synopsis Sir James Martin by : John Michael Bennett
Download or read book Sir James Martin written by John Michael Bennett and published by Federation Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intelligence, ambition and self-belief took Martin, the son of the Governor's Irish groom, to the pinnacles of colonial law and politics. He is the only man to have been both been Premier and Chief Justice of New South Wales.He made his name as a fierce and partisan contributor to the vitriolic political debates of the 1840s. A brilliant young lawyer, he was in Parliament in 1848, before the age of 30. He stayed there, in and out of government, until 1873 when he made an honourable exit to the highest judicial office in the colony. Knighthood and civil honours followed.Self-made, rich, arrogant and married to the wealthy daughter of a former convict, Martin attracted enemies so that, as Premier, he could not always guarantee the passage of his legislation, and at times lost his parliamentary seat. Through all this, he conducted a huge Bar practice and was appointed Chief Justice.Remembered as a man "springing from the people and educated amongst them", he showed "every quality which is necessary to a great and good Judge" in a career of rare accomplishment.The NSW State Set of Lives of Australian Chief Justices, which includes, Sir Francis Forbes, Sir James Dowling, Sir Alfred Stephen, Sir James Martin and Sir Frederick Darley is available for $210.00 - to order the NSW State Set, click here. A NSW Sesquicentenary of Responsible Government publication.
Book Synopsis Sir William Stawell by : John Michael Bennett
Download or read book Sir William Stawell written by John Michael Bennett and published by Federation Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a judge, and Chief Justice, Stawell was ideal for his times. In the later half of the nineteenth century, Victoria needed a judge who was able to dispense justice speedily. He was a man prepared to lead the community by speaking out, in a variety of venues, on the necessity of the rule of law the vital plank in an ordered society.
Book Synopsis Legacies of British Slave-ownership by : Catherine Hall
Download or read book Legacies of British Slave-ownership written by Catherine Hall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book puts the legacies of slavery squarely back into modern British history.
Book Synopsis George Higinbotham by : John Michael Bennett
Download or read book George Higinbotham written by John Michael Bennett and published by Federation Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Higinbotham's extreme and uncompromising radical views and mesmerizing oratory have made him an iconic figure in Victoria's colonial history - the darling of the liberals and the left. John Bennett has written a major re-assessment of this giant who was a dominating figure from the 1850s until his death in 1892.Higinbotham was successively a gold digger who found no gold; a barrister who found few briefs; a crusading editor of Melbourne's Argus; an independent member of Parliament who opposed political parties and ferociously attacked the "squatter" dominated Legislative Council and the Colonial Office; an overtly democratic Attorney-General who advocated government without supply; and Chief Justice of Victoria when his political dreams all foundered.Yet he drew others to him as a Pied Piper. He was a mass of contradictions. Extraordinarily charitable to beggars, he treated his family miserably. A failure in achievement, he retained an enormous popularity which has endured for over a century.The Victorian State Set of Lives of Australian Chief Justices, which includes, Sir William a'Beckett, Sir William Stawell and George Higinbotham is available for $120.00 - to order the Victorian State Set, click here.
Book Synopsis Island off the Coast of Asia by : Clinton Fernandes
Download or read book Island off the Coast of Asia written by Clinton Fernandes and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-07-15 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Australian foreign policy in multiple dimensions: diplomatic, military, economic, legal and scientific. It shows how the instruments of statecraft have defended domestic concentrations of wealth and power across the 230-year span of modern Australian history. The pursuit of security has meant much more than protection from invasion. It gives priority to economic interests, and to a political order that secures them. This view of security has deep roots in Australia’s geopolitical tradition. Australia began its existence on the winning side of a worldwide confrontation. The book shows that the ‘organizing principle’ of Australian foreign policy is to stay on the winning side of the global contest. Australia has pursued this principle in war and peace, using the full arsenal of diplomacy, law, investment, research, negotiations, military force and espionage. This book uses many decades of secret files to reveal the inner workings of high-level policy.
Download or read book The Law Times written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
