Mrs Chester’s lost child: inconsolable psychological injury and Justice Evatt’s finest judgment / Gideon Haigh and Associate Professor Kylie Burns.

Brisbane : Supreme Court Library Queensland 2021

202055

Evatt, Herbert Vere, -- 1894-1965.

Judgments -- Psychological aspects.

Gideon Haigh’s latest book The brilliant boy recovers HV ‘Doc’ Evatt as one of our most compelling and dynamic public figures—in law, politics, history and culture, he was the great agitator against the insular complacency of his era. -- Central to Haigh’s portrait of Evatt’s remarkable prime is the case of Max Chester, an immigrant child who drowned in 1937. Evatt’s dissenting judgment marks a critical moment in our law and its approach to psychological trauma. -- In this lecture chaired by the Hon Justice Peter Applegarth AM, author Gideon Haigh will speak about Evatt and the judge’s empathy for Mrs Chester’s suffering. Associate Professor Kylie Burns of Griffith Law School will follow Gideon Haigh's talk by commenting on the contemporary relevance of Chester’s case to how inconsolable psychological trauma is currently dealt with by our legal system.

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Gideon Haigh and Associate Professor Kylie Burns, 'Mrs Chester’s lost child: inconsolable psychological injury and Justice Evatt’s finest judgment', 2021 Selden Society Lecture 2 given at the Banco Court, Brisbane, 14 Jul 2021

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