I Like A Clamour

NOTE EDITORE

The controversial career of John Walpole Willis is re-evaluated in the first comprehensive study of his legal career. Willis, the fifth judge to be appointed to the Supreme Court of New South Wales, served in three colonies, and in each place he wrestled with the role of the law in a rapidly-changing society. In Upper Canada, he confronted the colony's transition from an oligarchy into a nascent democracy; in his next posting, in British Guyana, he was responsible for helping the colony implement, and absorb the consequences of, the abolition of slavery. New South Wales, his final posting, presented unique legal problems as it evolved from a penal colony into a free settlement, and the new settlement at Port Phillip began to grow. To these troubled societies, Judge Willis brought an acute legal mind and a stormy personality – he was twice dismissed from his post by the local Governor. Earlier studies have tended to view him either as a wronged genius or a vain, deranged misfit. Max Bonnell, an experienced lawyer and Adjunct Professor of Law at Sydney University, has rediscovered Willis as a contradictory figure – Australia's first activist judge, who was nonetheless a stickler for the letter of the law; the author of several remarkably humane and enlightened judgments, who was capable of endorsing appalling cruelty; and a man who insisted upon decorum and propriety, yet was undone by his own conspicuous failures of self-control.

SOMMARIO

CONTENTS “Dramatis Personae” List of Illustrations Introduction: Grimaces on the bench 1. Great disrespect and insult 2. The satisfaction of a gentleman 3. An attachment to Lady Mary 4. It is intended to commit that Jurisdiction to Mr Willis 5. You have not got your Equity Court yet 6. I dare say his Object will appear 7. An inferior situation 8. Little Insects 9. Dissolved, annulled, vacated and made void 10. No unfriendly feelings 11. We cannot be bound 12. He devours a pig or goat daily 13. My shattered constitution 14. The expression of my mortification 15. Neither of my colleagues particularly love me 16. Destroying the web of sophistry 17. Very gross rudeness 18. The most malignant and diabolical dispositions 19. A mean, lickspittle business 20. The gentlemen of the profession 21. A friend to free discussions 22. A vast and hitherto neglected, oppressed and deeply injured multitude 23. High and responsible situations 24. Circumstances have occurred 25. Over a glass of grog 26. The necessary directions 27. I like a clamour Notes Appendix A: Secretaries of State for War and the Colonies, 1827-1846 Appendix B: Cases heard by Judge Willis in the Supreme Court of New South Wales* Acknowledgments Select Bibliography Index

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• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9781760020866
• Dimensioni: 9.25 x 6.25 in Ø 2.11 lb
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pagine Arabe: 304