An unruly child : a history of law in Australia / Bruce Kercher.
1995
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Author
Title
An unruly child : a history of law in Australia / Bruce Kercher.
Published
St. Leonards, NSW, Australia : Allen & Unwin, 1995.
Call Number
KU120 .K47 1995
ISBN
1863738916
Description
xxi, 248 pages ; 23 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)34633278
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-242) and index.
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Table of Contents
Abbreviations
Preface
Introduction: English flotsam
1
Aboriginal subjects of the Crown
3
British subjects or enemies?
5
Burton's tears
12
The word of Aboriginal subjects
15
Aboriginal rights to land
17
2
The contradictions of convict law
22
Freedom and the lash, 1788-1820
22
The impossibility of strict law, 1820-1840
30
The end of convict liberty, 1840-1868
40
From autonomy to official control
42
3
Amateur law at the frontier
43
Law in the bush
43
Civil courts in an uncivil society
45
Amateur law on the penal islands
59
Moreton Bay and Port Phillip
60
The western frontiers
61
4
Innovation smothered? Formal changes from the 1820s to the 1850s
67
A new Britannia in another world
67
1823: the first great change
69
1828: closer into the arms of English law
73
Votes for vulgar low-bred fellows
76
5
The power of the judges: judicial review and the attachment to England
82
Freedom of the press
82
Judicial review and the accumulated wisdom of ancestors
86
Writs and wigs
94
Boothby's lasting contribution to colonial independence
97
6
Repugnant legislation: law making from 1824 to responsible government
103
Dangers in the bush
103
Paternalist labour law
109
Reducing the cruelty of debt law
112
Mass law breaking by the squatters
118
7
Colonial freedom: law making between responsible government and 1900
124
Colonial independence
124
Selectors and speculators
126
Gold and democracy
131
Corporate crashes
134
Danger on the railways
135
The rights of women
137
A new province for law and order
144
Racial attitudes enshrined in law
147
New principles in new bodies
150
From external to internal constraints
153
8
Creeping towards legal independence, 1901-1960
157
Three cheers for the queen and three for Australia
157
Cultural cringe and the myth of unity
162
Bending the law on burnt feet
169
Keeping out the Privy Council
171
Arbitration and the empire of strict law
174
Remnants of imperial restrictions
175
9
The rebirth of Australian legal doctrine, 1960-1995
177
The slow steps to independence
177
Legalist Chief Justices
179
Lionel Murphy
184
End of empire: the Australia Acts 1986
186
The new makers of Australian law
188
Mabo and the beginning of justice
195
Five phases of Australian law
202
Notes and sources
206
Index
243