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    Thurgood Marshall
    Park, M. M. ( 1993)
    Biographical note on the career of Thurgood Marshall who died aged 84 in January, 1993.
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    Royal road test update
    Park, Malcolm McKenzie (The Victorian Bar, 1995)
    An even further collection of anecdotes regarding falsified, exaggerated, self invented, or self conferred qualifications.
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    Royal road test
    Park, Malcolm McKenzie (The Victorian Bar, 1994)
    A collection of anecdotes regarding falsified, exaggerated, self invented, or self conferred qualifications.
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    More helpful advice III
    Park, Malcolm McKenzie (The Victorian Bar, 1995)
    Yet another collection of legal anecdotes involving bold, insouciant, or impudent behaviour by counsel directed towards the court, the judicial officer, or the practice of law.
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    This sporting life
    Park, M. M. (The Victorian Bar, 1993)
    Speculation on sporting prowess being a necessary quality for appointment to high judicial office.
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    More helpful advice II
    Park, Malcolm McKenzie (The Victorian Bar, 1994)
    An even further collection of legal anecdotes involving bold, insouciant, or impudent behaviour by counsel directed towards the court, the judicial officer, or the practice of law.
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    More helpful advice
    Park, Malcolm McKenzie ( 1994)
    A further collection of anecdotes involving bold, insouciant, or impudent behaviour by counsel directed towards the court, the judicial officer, or the practice of law.
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    The strange case of Andrea Yates and Dr Park Dietz
    Park, M. M. (The Victorian Bar, 2008)
    Following the erroneous testimony of a celebrated expert witness, a mentally disturbed mother was convicted of murdering her five children. The witness’s evidence was the foundation for an inference that the defendant had concocted an insanity defence based upon a popular television drama series episode. In fact the expert had “falsely remembered” a non-existent episode of the series. The conviction was reversed upon appeal on the sole ground of the witness’s erroneous testimony. Upon re-trial, the defendant was found not guilty by reason of insanity.
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    A layman's triumph
    Park, M. M. ( 1989)
    Colonel Alfred Daniel Wintle was the quintessential Englishman. He was an infuriating chauvinistic (in the true sense of the word) eccentric bachelor-soldier who exemplified the expression “old woman” to describe a man. When he was not busy being patriotic he saw the whole of life through his monocle as one long mess-night lark. Perhaps, had the late Sir Alan Herbert learnt of Wintle’s existence earlier, he would not have found it necessary to invent Albert Haddock. He was an outdated Colonel Blimp figure and believer in the superiority of all things English at a time when the sun was beginning to set on the British Empire and Britannia no longer ruled the waves. The title of his posthumously published autobiography (“The Last Englishman”, 1968) was well-chosen. The author here relates this little man’s successful conduct of his own legal case in the House of Lords — a victory that Wintle never doubted was his due or within his grasp.