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John Jefferson Bray : a vigilant life / John Emerson.
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Publication details:
Clayton, Victoria : Monash University Publishing, 2015
Record id:
87062
Author:
Subject:
Bray, John Jefferson, -- 1912-1995.
South Australia -- Supreme Court -- Biography.
Judges -- South Australia -- Biography.
Justice, Administration of -- South Australia -- History.
Contents:
Chapter 1. Athens, 1974
Chapter 2. Pocahontas
Chapter 3. Adelaide, 1915
Chapter 4. Bacchus
Chapter 5. Voyage
Chapter 6. Papinian
Chapter 7. Silk
Chapter 8. Charles Jury dies
Chapter 9. Watershed 1959
Chapter 10. Defending Rupert Murdoch
Chapter 11. The lawyer poet
Chapter 12. The last man hanged in South Australia
Chapter 13. Dunstan's choice
Chapter 14. Chief Justice 1967-1978
Chapter 15. The dramatic Dunstan decade
Chapter 16. For better or for worse
Appendix.
Summary:
"In March 1967, South Australian Premier Don Dunstan appointed his State's most outstanding barrister as Chief Justice: John Jefferson Bray. In public, Bray's appointment brought barely a ripple, but in the murky urban waters of Adelaide's corridors of power, this decision unleashed waves of outrage and bitter revenge seeking. After his successful defense of Rupert Murdoch's News in 1960 in a seditious libel case, John Jefferson Bray made a powerful enemy who coveted the position that Chief Justice Bray would come to hold; an enemy who would then ruthlessly target Bray's unconventional private life. Conditions would eventually lead to the sacking of a police commissioner, the resignation of Dunstan, and the early retirement of Bray. This is the story of an extraordinarily gifted man whose judicial writings continue to be cited across the Commonwealth and who was determined to defend not only his own natural right to a private life, but that of all citizens." - Publisher's website.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-268) and index.
ISBN:
9781922235619
Phys. description:
xv, 271 p. ; 25 cm