May it please your honour : a history of the Supreme Court of Western Australia 1861-2005 / by Geoffrey Bolton and Geraldine Byrne.

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Perth : The Supreme Court of Western Australia, 2005.

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25273

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Supreme Court of Western Australia.

Courts -- Western Australia -- History.

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Foreword by Chief Justice David Malcolm AC

List of illustrations

Acknowledgments

Conversion table and abbreviations

Introduction

1. Beginning: 1829-1861

2. An unblemished private character - Sir Archibald Burt 1861-1879

3. Conflict 1879-1892

4. Development and stability: 1892-1903

5. An important trust: 1903-1930

6. The court during depression and wartime: 1931-1945

7. The Dwyer and Wolff court: 1945-1969

8. Winds of change: 1969-1977

9. One Burt was not enough: 1977-1988

10. Into the twenty-first century: 1988-2006

Endnotes

Bibliography

Judges of the Supreme Court of Western Australia appointed since May 1988

Masters of the Supreme Court of Western Australia appointed since May 1988

Appendix 1

Appendix 2

Index.

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095900677X

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xxvi, 438 p. : ill.