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Courts and the Law

Bennett, J. M. A History of the Supreme Court of New South Wales.  Sydney: Law Book Company, 1974.

Bennett, J. M. George Higinbotham: Third Chief Justice of Victoria 1886-1892. Annandale: Federation Press, 2006.

Bennett, J. M. Portraits of the Chief Justices of New South Wales, 1824-1977.  St Ives: John Ferguson, 1977.

Bennett, J. M. Sir William a’Beckett: First Chief Justice of Victoria 1852-1857. Annandale: Federation Press, 2001.

Bennett, J. M. Sir William Stawell: Second Chief Justice of Victoria 1857-1886. Annandale: Federation Press, 2004.

Blewer, Robyn. “Making kiddies at home in court: Supporting child witnesses in twentieth century Australian courtrooms.” law&history 4 (2017): 62-87.

Bolton, G. C. May it Please Your Honour: A History of the Supreme Court of Western Australia 1861-2005. Perth: Supreme Court of Western Australia, 2005.

Byrne, Paula J. Criminal Law and Colonial Subject: New South Wales, 1810-1830.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Castles, Alex C. An Australian Legal History.  Sydney: The Law Book Company Limited, 1982.

Castles, Alex C. Lawless Harvests or God Save the Judges : Van Diemen’s Land 1803-55, a Legal History. North Melbourne, Vic: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2007.

Castles, Alex, and Michael C Harris. Lawmakers and Wayward Whigs: Government and Law in South Australia 1836-1986.  Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 1987.

Chesterman, Michael. “Criminal Trial Juries in Australia: From Penal Colonies to a Federal Democracy “. Law and Contemporary Problems 62, no. 2 (1999): 69-102.

Crawford, James, and Brian Opeskin. Australian Courts of Law.  Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Emerson, John. First Among Equals: Chief Justices of South Australia Since Federation. Adelaide: University of Adelaide Barr Smith Press, 2006.

Emerson, John. History of the Independent Bar of South Australia. Adelaide: University of Adelaide Barr Smith Press, 2006.

Evans, Julie. “Colonialism and the Rule of the Law: The Case of South Australia.” In Crime and Empire, 1840-1940: Criminal Justice in Local and Global Context, edited by Graeme Dunstall Barry S. Godfrey, 57-75. Cullompton: Willan Publishing, 2005.

Finn, Jeremy. “Codification of the Criminal Law: The Australasian Parliamentary Experience.” In Crime and Empire, 1840-1940: Criminal Justice in Local and Global Context, edited by Graeme Dunstall Barry S. Godfrey, 224-38. Cullompton: Willan Publishing, 2005.

Finnane, Mark and Alana Piper, “The Prosecution Project: Understanding the changing criminal trial through digital tools,” Law and History Review 34, no. 4 (2016): 873-891.

Finnane, Mark, and Andy Kaladelfos. “Race and Justice in an Australian Court: Prosecuting Homicide in Western Australia, 1830-1954.” Australian Historical Studies 47, no. 3 (2016): 443-61.

Finnane, Mark. “Law and Regulation.” In The Cambridge History of Australia, edited by Alison Bashford and Stuart Macintyre, 391-413. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Finnane, Mark. “Payback, Customary Law and Criminal Law in Colonised Australia.” International Journal of the Sociology of Law 29, no. 4 (2001): 293-310.

Finnane, Mark, and Yorick Smaal. “The Prosecution Project: Using Crime Records to Access Family and Other Histories.” Queensland Review 25, no. 1 (2018): 89-101.

Finnane, Mark. J.V. Barry: A Life.  Sydney: UNSW Press, 2007.

Ford, Lisa. Settler Sovereignty: Jurisdiction and Indigenous People in America and Australia, 1788-1836.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010.

Galbally, Ann. Redmond Barry: An Anglo-Irish Australian. Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 1995.

Hunter, Ann. A Different Kind of ‘Subject’: Colonial Law in Aboriginal-European Relations in Nineteenth Century Western Australia 1829-61. North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2012.

Jenkinson, Noelene. Legal History of Horsham 1875-1992.  Horsham: Horsham & District Historical Society, 1993.

Kercher, Bruce. An Unruly Child: A History of Law in Australia.  St Leonards: Allen & Unwin, 1995.

Loughnan, Arlie. “Consorting, Then and Now: Changing Relations of Responsibility for Crime.” of Responsibility for Crime. 45, no. 2 (2019): 8-36.

Loughnan, Arlie. “Historical Analysis in Criminal Law: A Counter-History of Criminal Trial Verdicts.” In Oxford Handbook of Legal History, edited by M.D. Dubber and C. Tomlins, 965-81. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.

Mason, Keith. Lawyers Then and Now: An Australian Legal Miscellany.  Annandale: Federation Press, 2012.

Mcpherson, Bruce. “Administration of the Courts 1859-1915.” In People, Places and Policies: Aspects of Queensland Government Administration 1859-1920, edited by Kay Cohen and Kenneth Wiltshire, 18-57. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1995.

McQueen, Rob. “Together We Fall, Divided We Stand: The Victorian Legal Profession in Crisis 1890-1940.” In Lawyers and Vampires: Cultural Histories of Legal Professions, edited by W. Wesley Pue and David Sugarman, 293-328. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2003.

Neal, David. The Rule of Law in a Penal Colony: Law and Power in Early New South Wales.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Neal, David. The Rule of Law in a Penal Colony: Law and Power in Early New South Wales.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

O’Regan, R. S. “Sir Samuel Griffith’s Criminal Code.” Royal Historical Society of Queensland Journal 14, no. 8 (August 1991): 305-17.

Piper, Alana, and Mark Finnane. “Access to legal representation by criminal defendants in Victoria, 1861-1961,” UNSW Law Journal 40, no. 2 (2017): 638-663.

Piper, Alana, and Mark Finnane. “Defending the accused: The impact of legal representation on criminal trial outcomes in Victoria, Australia 1861–1961,” Journal of Legal History 38, no 1 (2017): 27-53.

Piper, Alana. “The special jury in Australia,” Criminal Law Journal 39, no. 4 (2015): 218-220.

Plater, David, and Victoria Geason. “”The Prisoners Could Not Have That Fair and Impartial Trial Which Justice Demands”: A Fair Criminal Trial in 19th Century Australia.” Canterbury Law Review 25 (2019): 161-203.

Pope, Alan. One Law for All?: Aboriginal People and Criminal Law in Early South Australia. Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2011.

Purdy, Jeannine M. Common Law and Colonised Peoples: Studies in Trinidad and Western Australia. Aldershot: Dartmouth Publishing; Brookfield: Ashgate, 1997.

Rhook, Nadia H. “The chief Chinese interpreter Charles Hodges: Mapping the aurality of race and governance in colonial Melbourne.” Postcolonial Studies 18, no. 1 (2015): 1-18.

Russell, Enid. A History of the Law in Western Australia and Its Development from 1829 to 1979.  Nedlands: University of Western Australia Press, 1980.

Ryan, Jan. “‘She Lives with a Chinaman’: Orient-Ing ‘White’ Women in the Courts of Law.” Journal of Australian Studies, no. 60 (1999): 149-59.

Rychner, Georgina. “Temporary Fits, Animal Passions: Insanity in Victorian Capital Trials, 1890-1935.” Health and History 20, no. 1 (2018): 28-51.

Smith, Simon. “The Shaping of the Legal Profession.” In Judging for the People: A Social History of the Supreme Court in Victoria 1841-2016, edited by Simon Smith, 71-96. Crows Nest: Allen & Unwin, 2016.

Taylor, Greg. A Great and Glorious Reformation: Six Early South Australian Legal Innovations.  Kent Town: Wakefield Press, 2005.

Walker, Sonia. “Battle-Axes and Sticky-Beaks: Women and Jury Service in Western Australia 1898-1957.” Murdoch University Electronic Journal of Law 11, no. 4 (2004): 1-33.

Waugh, John. “The Legal Profession between the Wars.” In The First World War, the Universities and the Professions in Australia, 1914-1939, edited by Kate Darian-Smith and James Waghorne, 220-34. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2019.

Westera, Nina, Sarah Zydervelt, Andy Kaladelfos, and Rachel Zajac. “Sexual Assault Complainants on the Stand: A Historical Comparison of Courtroom Questioning.” Psychology, Crime & Law 23, no. 1 (2017): 15-31.

Whitfield, Lawrence Adrian. Founders of the Law in Australia. Sydney: Butterworths, 1971.

Woods, G. D. A History of Criminal Law in New South Wales.  Annandale: Federation Press, 2002.

Zajac, Rachel, Nina Westera, and Andy Kaladelfos. “A Historical Comparison of Australian Lawyers’ Strategies for Cross-Examining Child Sexual Abuse Complainants.” Child Abuse & Neglect 72 (2017): 236-46.

Zydervelt, Sarah, Rachel Zajac, Andy Kaladelfos and Nina Westera. “Lawyers’ Strategies for Cross-examining Rape Complainants: Have We Moved Beyond the 1950s?” British Journal of Criminology 57, no. 3 (2017): 551-569.

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