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Private law’s revolutionaries: authors, codifiers and merchants?
Selden Society lecture series Australia
12/15/20 • 48 min
Justice Mary Gaudron
Selden Society lecture series Australia
02/04/21 • 45 min
Mary Genevieve Gaudron was the first woman to be appointed a justice of the High Court of Australia. Gaudron served on the Court as one of its most influential members for 16 years (1987–2003), and her career has been described as ‘a classic example of talent and industry triumphant over limited opportunity’.
Listen as the Hon Roslyn Atkinson AO tells the fascinating story of Gaudron’s stellar career. From being the first woman in New South Wales to be appointed as Solicitor-General and Queen’s Counsel, to her appointment as a justice of the High Court of Australia at 43, to her term as President of the International Labour Organisation’s Administrative Tribunal in Geneva.
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The audacity of Griffith as a law reformer
Selden Society lecture series Australia
04/26/21 • 35 min
Sir Samuel Griffith was undoubtedly the instigator of some of the greatest law reform moments in Queensland history. This lecture attempts to capture the most significant pieces of law reform for which he was singularly responsible for more than a quarter of a century.
The range of subjects include both civil and criminal law, substantive law and procedural law with a view to identifying what was innovative and, at times, audacious.
About the speaker:
The Hon Justice David Jackson began his career in law when he was admitted as a barrister of the Supreme Court of Queensland in 1977. In 1990 his Honour was appointed Queen’s Counsel. Justice Jackson previously served as a member of the Supreme Court Library Committee and chaired the Queensland Law Reform Commission between 2014 and 2020. His Honour has been a judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland since 2012.
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Kidnapping and slavery in Queensland: the 'Jason' and the 'Hopeful'
Selden Society lecture series Australia
09/30/22 • 60 min
In our latest episode, Dr Andrew Stumer and Professor Emeritus Kay Saunders AO examine two Queensland criminal cases from the late 19th century.
With the rapid expansion of sugar production in Queensland in the second half of the 19th century, new sources of labour were sought. In 1871, the Supreme Court of Queensland upheld the conviction of Captain Coath of the schooner Jason for kidnapping nine South Sea Islanders to force them into servitude. Supporters of Captain Coath insisted the conviction was obtained through lies told by disgruntled crew members and a Government Inspector. Opponents of South Sea Islander labour pointed to the case as a symptom of widespread abuse.
In 1884, the crew of the Burns Philp vessel Hopeful was charged with the murder and kidnapping of South Sea Islanders. An enormous public outcry ensued when the captain and mate were found guilty and sentenced to death. The following year, Premier Samuel Griffith, a loudly outspoken critic of the plantation system, established the Royal Commission to Enquire into Kidnapping in New Guinea Waters. It revealed the widespread extent of assault, kidnapping and deception by crews of ships participating in the labour trade.
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About the speakers
Dr Andrew Stumer is a barrister in practice in Brisbane, Queensland. He is the author of The Presumption of Innocence: Evidential and Human Rights Perspectives (Hart Publishing, 2010).
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Emeritus Professor Kay Saunders AO FASSA FRSA FRHS (London) has published widely on global indentured labour systems and slavery. Her most recent project, conducted with Dr Denver Beanland AM, concerns a re-appraisal of Sir Samuel Griffith's political career.
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Leading cases of the common law – McKenzie v McKenzie [1971] P 33
Selden Society lecture series Australia
03/04/19 • 43 min
This lecture examines the celebrated 1971 English case of McKenzie v McKenzie, in which the Court of Appeal unanimously affirmed the important principle that any person conducting proceedings in court is entitled to quiet assistance from a person of their choice. 2019 marks fifty years since the initial divorce trial of McKenzie v McKenzie in London. The lecture is presented by Ian Hanger AM QC, who was the original ‘McKenzie’s friend’.
Guns and judges: Antonin Scalia and the right to bear arms
Selden Society lecture series Australia
01/23/19 • 47 min
Antonin Scalia was a prominent and controversial member of the Supreme Court of the United States: February marks the anniversary of his unexpected death in 2016. The lecture is presented by the Honourable Justice Glenn Martin, judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland.
A video of the lecture and copy of the paper are available on the Supreme Court Library Queensland website, https://legalheritage.sclqld.org.au/2018-lecture-one
The Dobell Case
Selden Society lecture series Australia
09/05/19 • 71 min
One of the world’s leading art prizes, The Archibald Prize, has been the battleground for debates and disputes about the definition of portraiture since its inception in 1921. It was established in 1919, pursuant to the will of Mr J F Archibald (a former editor of The Bulletin). Its annual exhibitions at the Art Gallery of NSW have reflected the evolving tastes and trends of Australia’s visual arts culture and offered public exposure to new interpretations of the portraiture genre. The legal case brought against the 1943 Archibald Prize winner, William Dobell (then a relatively unknown artist), forms part of a long history of art-world litigation built around questions of taste and changing definitions of art itself. Dobell’s prize winning portrait used distortion and exaggeration to capture the essence and character of his friend and colleague Joshua Smith; the artist sought to create an image, not merely copy one. The final, convention-breaking painting created huge public interest and stimulated debate about the definition of portraiture.
The resulting court case, brought by two disaffected Archibald Prize entrants against Dobell and the Gallery’s trustees, saw two of the greatest advocates of the day—Garfield Barwick KC (for the plaintiffs) and Frank Kitto KC (for the Art Gallery of NSW)—contest the differences between caricature and portraiture over a four-day trial. In the result, the decision of the trustees was upheld: Attorney-General v Trustees of the Art Gallery of NSW (1944) 62 WN (NSW) 212. However, the case took its toll on Dobell and the other participants in this extraordinary dispute.
This September marks 75 years since the case.
Rhetoric and reality: the making of English medieval legislation
Selden Society lecture series Australia
07/02/19 • 51 min
In this lecture, Professor Paul Brand looks at the different rhetorics of legislation enacted during the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, a period when the initiative in legislation still clearly lay with the King and his advisers (rather than with the Commons in parliament) and also a period which saw the enactment of legislation with a major and continuing impact and importance.
Visit the Supreme Court Library Queensland website for more: https://legalheritage.sclqld.org.au/2019-lecture-one
The Irish convict doctor who delivered Dick Atkin—Dr O'Doherty
Selden Society lecture series Australia
06/04/19 • 46 min
Lord Atkin's first encounter with a doctor was in 1867, when Dr Kevin O'Doherty attended his birth in Brisbane. Twenty years earlier O'Doherty had been transported to Tasmania for his advocacy of Irish nationalism. By 1867 he was a leading surgeon in Brisbane, and, like his friend Robert Atkin, an advocate of liberal democracy. He was one of the first presidents of the Queensland Medical Society and carried out extensive honorary work at Catholic hospitals. As an MP he introduced Queensland's first Public Health Act, championed the improvement of public health and as an opponent of the traffic in Kanakas sponsored the bill to stop their recruitment. He was a member of Queensland's Parliament until 1886 when he returned to Ireland and was elected to the House of Commons in that country. Soon after that, political differences in Dublin led him to return to Brisbane.
Learn more about this lecture on the Supreme Court Library Queensland website, https://legalheritage.sclqld.org.au/2018-lecture-three
Next Witness panel discussion
Selden Society lecture series Australia
10/01/19 • 46 min
This month we have a special edition of the podcast featuring a panel discussion on the relationships between art, aesthetics and justice.
The event was a part of the recent Next Witness exhibition in the library featuring the works of contemporary Australian artist Julie Fragar. Inspired by her experiences as an observer in the Queensland Supreme Court, Fragar’s large, layered paintings reveal the human factors in the judicial process.
Joining the artist in discussion were the Honourable Justice Thomas Bradley, Dr Karen Crawley and Professor Kieran Tranter. The panel was chaired by Angela Goddard, Director of the Griffith University Art Museum.
https://legalheritage.sclqld.org.au/exhibitions/next-witness
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Selden Society lecture series Australia currently has 38 episodes available.
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The average episode length on Selden Society lecture series Australia is 48 minutes.
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The first episode of Selden Society lecture series Australia was released on Jan 23, 2019.
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