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ItemThurgood Marshall( 1993)Biographical note on the career of Thurgood Marshall who died aged 84 in January, 1993.
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ItemRoyal road test update(The Victorian Bar, 1995)An even further collection of anecdotes regarding falsified, exaggerated, self invented, or self conferred qualifications.
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ItemRoyal road test(The Victorian Bar, 1994)A collection of anecdotes regarding falsified, exaggerated, self invented, or self conferred qualifications.
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ItemMore helpful advice III(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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ItemThis sporting life(The Victorian Bar, 1993)Speculation on sporting prowess being a necessary quality for appointment to high judicial office.
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ItemMore helpful advice II(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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ItemMore helpful advice( 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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ItemThe strange case of Andrea Yates and Dr Park Dietz(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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ItemWrit on water: Closing the traverse in the tri-state area of New South Wales, South Australia, and Victoria(TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2007-06-01)
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ItemA layman's triumph( 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.