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• Foreword by the Honourable Keith Mason, AC, QC Acknowledgements List of Illustrations "Dramatis Personae"
• 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 unitelligible chaos"
• 12. Diametrical Opposites
• 13. Representing the Queen
• 14. "The Return of the Native" Abbreviations Notes Index Table of Cases Schedule of Parliamentary Bills Table of Statutes.
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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. On 4 November Sir James Martin died in office. Attorney-General Want, pressing a false claim to the vacancy, nevertheless declined it. The salary was too low. The great orator W B Dalley, QC, also rejected the position. His health was failing. F M Darley, QC, was immediately approached, but having a large family to support, he also declined. The government turned to Julian Salomons, QC, who accepted and was gazetted. Almost immediately, without taking his seat, he resigned for the extraordinary reasons disclosed in Dr Bennett's fascinating chapter on the "Phantom Chief Justice". A perplexed government urged Darley's reconsideration. He did so reluctantly, serving from 29 November at great financial sacrifice. As the Hon Keith Mason, AC, QC, notes in his insightful foreword, Darley's reluctance to serve was ultimately "matched only by his reluctance to relinquish the role over 20 years later". Richly detailed chapters trace Darley's progression from birth and education in Ireland to Bar practice there at a time when too many lawyers competed for too little work. Darley migrated to Sydney, succeeding beyond his wildest hopes to build a preeminent practice, command a fortune and become a Legislative Councillor. Always regarding Australia as his "adopted country", he retained his "Irishness" to the end. With characteristic care and precision, the author reviews Darley's judicial career, his distinguished presidency over the Supreme Court in difficult years, and his work administering the colony on many occasions as Lieutenant-Governor. Darley might well have retired in 1902 when he accepted a place on the English Royal Commission inquiring into the poor military performance in the Boer War. But despite illness, and resistance to social and industrial change, he persevered on the bench until his death in 1910. The product of meticulous research, Sir Frederick Darley paints an illuminating portrait of the life and times of this important man, whose judicial accomplishments and dedication to duty and service won great acclaim and respect. "As with his earlier lives of Chief Justices, John Bennett has provided us with insights into life and customs as well as fascinating snippets of Darley the husband and paterfamilias. A proud Irishman, he is said to have 'embodied the Victorian era and its values'."The Hon Keith Mason, AC, QC (from the foreword) 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.
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• Foreword by Emeritus Professor Bruce Mansfield Acknowledgements/ List of Illustrations/ "Dramatis Personae" Part I - As Puisne Judge Introduction
• 1. "Success Under Every Possible Disadvantage"
• 2. "The Intention of the Legislature
• 3. "The Life of Man is Above All Price"
• 4. Edward Smith Hall - "The Cobbett of New South Wales" Part II - As Chief Justice
• 5. "This Simple and Natural Course of Proceeding"
• 6. "To My Dear Brother Vincent I am Deeply Indebted"
• 7. "Neither of My Colleagues Particularly Love Me"
• 8. "A Victim to Scrupulous Anxiety"
• 9. "Nolens Volens a Politician" Conclusions/ Abbreviations/ Notes/ Index.
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The career of Sir James Dowling, second Chief Justice of NSW (1837-1844), supplies a model of the working of patronage in the appointment of judges to British colonial service. Dowling's advancement as puisne judge in Sydney, as acting Chief Justice during the absence on leave of Chief Justice Forbes, and a Chief Justice in succession to Forbes, depended on patrons. The principal was Lord Brougham, supported in England by Dowling's influential journalist brother Vincent. While he was not an outstanding judicial lawyer, Dowling was painstaking and industrious. His meticulous manuscript recording of court proceedings was an astonishing undertaking. This book reviews his contribution as judge and as ex officio Legislative Councillor. It traces prolonged litigation, disposed of before Dowling, concerning the proprietor of the Sydney Monitor, Edward Smith Hall. And it examines the bruising relations between Dowling and fellow judges W W Burton and J W Willis. CORRIGENDUMIn this title, Sir James Dowling, the material "Dramatis Personae" contains an error. The entry "HOWICK" should be omitted and the entry "GREY" should read:GREY, Sir George, Under Secretary (Political) for the Colonies, 1834-1835, 1835-1839.
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• Journal of a voyage
• Letters from the voyage to Madeira
• Sketch of the Island of Madeira
• Letters from Madeira
• Journal from Madeira to Porto Praya
• Sketch of Porto Praya in the Island St. Jago
• Journal : Porto Praya to Rio de Janeiro
• Journal at Rio
• Account of the city of St. Sebatian's and the harbour of Rio de Janeiro
• Letters from Rio
• Journal from Rio to the cape
• Letters from the Cape of Good Hope
• Letters from Sydney.

Front cover image: King Parrot (Alisterus Scapularis), Go-mah (Murry), part of John Hunter, Birds and Flowers of New South Wales drawn on the spot.1788-1790, Rex Nan Kivell CollectionReproduced with permission of National Library of Australia, pic_an 3149631. Ellis Bent was the son of a London merchant trading to the West Indies. He was appointed Judge Advocate to the colony of New South Wales in 1809 and travelled with Governor Macquarie and the 73rd Regiment on board the Dromedary troop ship to the colony. On board ship he kept a journal, wrote sketches of Porto Praya, Madeira and Rio de Janeiro, and was careful to copy all letters he sent to his family. He also wrote from the Cape of Good Hope and from New South Wales until 1811. Ellis Bent has a merchant's eye for detail and these documents give us a remarkable insight into the manners, customs and power play of the early nineteenth century including the customs of sea faring ships.
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• Author's note
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• List of figures
• List of tables
• 1. Introduction
• Part I. Law and the Person: 2. Labour
• 3. The house
• 4. The body
• Part II. Offence in the Wilderness: 5. The creation of bushranging
• Part III. Suspicious Characters: Police and People: 6. The structure and style of policing
• 7. Popular use of law
• Part IV. The Court Room: 8. Deciding what was good and bad
• 9. Conclusion
• Appendix
• Bibliography
• Index.
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1810-1830 was a crucial period in the development of New South Wales, when the legal foundations of a free-settler and emancipist society were laid. This book explores the relationship of a colonial people with English law and looks at the practice of law among the ordinary population. Paula Jane Byrne traces the boundaries between property, sexuality and violence, drawing from court records, dispositions and proceedings. She asks: what did ordinary people understand by guilt, suspicion, evidence and the term 'offence'? The book reconstructs the legal process with great detail and richness and evokes the everyday lives of people in the colony. It focuses on the different valuing of males and females and analyses the complex gender relations of the early colony. This book innovatively ties recent ideas on convict society and Australian colonial women's history to the legal, economic and social history of early New South Wales.
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• Author's note
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• List of figures
• List of tables
• 1. Introduction
• Part I. Law and the Person: 2. Labour
• 3. The house
• 4. The body
• Part II. Offence in the Wilderness: 5. The creation of bushranging
• Part III. Suspicious Characters: Police and People: 6. The structure and style of policing
• 7. Popular use of law
• Part IV. The Court Room: 8. Deciding what was good and bad
• 9. Conclusion
• Appendix
• Bibliography
• Index.
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1810-1830 was a crucial period in the development of New South Wales, when the legal foundations of a free-settler and emancipist society were laid. This book explores the relationship of a colonial people with English law and looks at the practice of law among the ordinary population. Paula Jane Byrne traces the boundaries between property, sexuality and violence, drawing from court records, dispositions and proceedings. She asks: what did ordinary people understand by guilt, suspicion, evidence and the term 'offence'? The book reconstructs the legal process with great detail and richness and evokes the everyday lives of people in the colony. It focuses on the different valuing of males and females and analyses the complex gender relations of the early colony. This book innovatively ties recent ideas on convict society and Australian colonial women's history to the legal, economic and social history of early New South Wales.
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• Introduction
• The socio-political context of imprisonment in New South Wales
• Theorising sentencing
• Experiencing sentencing
• Managerialism, discipline and the "responsible prisoner"
• Relational aspects of imprisonment
• Rehabilitation
• Conclusion.

This book examines the lives of the sentenced to argue that 'sentencing' should be re-conceived to consider the human perspective. It combines a range of modern criminological and legal theories together with interviews with prisoners in New South Wales, to examine their lives during and beyond completing the terms of imprisonment, for a more continuous and coherent perspective on the process of 'sentencing'. This book makes a strong argument for the practical advantages of listening to the voices of the sentenced and it is therefore a useful tool for the correctional community engaged in providing services and programmes to reduce recidivism. A methodological and well-researched text, this book will be of particular interest to scholars of criminal justice and the penal system, as well as policy makers and practitioners.
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