The Public Acts of New South Wales, 1824-1937
Author : New South Wales
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Page : 948 pages
File Size : 17,49 MB
Release : 1938
Category : Law
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Author : New South Wales
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Page : 948 pages
File Size : 17,49 MB
Release : 1938
Category : Law
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Author : New South Wales
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Page : 1138 pages
File Size : 21,67 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Law
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Publisher : Aust. Bureau of Statistics
Page : 1052 pages
File Size : 40,17 MB
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Author : California State Library
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Page : 416 pages
File Size : 29,65 MB
Release : 1940
Category : Libraries
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Vols. for 1971- include annual reports and statistical summaries.
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Page : 580 pages
File Size : 50,57 MB
Release : 1938-07
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Page : 1074 pages
File Size : 33,34 MB
Release : 1956-03
Category : Political science
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Author : New South Wales
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Page : 780 pages
File Size : 31,12 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Session laws
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Page : 1076 pages
File Size : 15,96 MB
Release : 1944
Category : Australia
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Author : Gregory D. Woods
Publisher : Federation Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 18,18 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9781862874398
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.
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Page : 864 pages
File Size : 30,27 MB
Release : 1956
Category : American literature
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