David Neal

The Rule of Law in a Penal Colony

Law and Politics in Early New South Wales

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Dr Neal shows how the courts served as a de facto parliament in early New South Wales.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 537g
• ISBN-13: 9780521372640
• ISBN-10: 052137264X
• Artikelnr.: 23453019

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Abbreviations
Preface
1. Great changes
2. Free society, penal colony, slave society, prison?
3. The rule of law
4. The courts
5. The magistracy
6. Policing a penal colony
7. The campaign for trial by jury
8. Conclusion
Appendices
Notes
Bibliography
Index.