The Crown : essays on its manifestation, power and accountability / edited by Martin Hinton and John M. Williams.

Adelaide : University of Adelaide Press, 2018.

1st edition

89479

Privileges and immunities -- Australia.

Executive power -- Australia.

Government liability -- Australia.

Constitutions -- Australia.

Constitutional history -- Australia.

Constitutional law -- Australia.

Australian essays -- 21st century.

Australia -- Relations -- Great Britain.

1. The crown: its nature and role

2. Sovereignty and the first Australians

3. Sovereignty and the Australian people

4. The vice-regal offices

5. The Crown being a model litigant

6. Judicial review and the Commonwealth Crown

7. The rule of law and the Crown

8. The executive power

9. The Crown as prosecutor

10. Can the Crown do wrong?

11. Executive power and responsible government

12. The Attorney-General, the DPP, the police and the Crown

13. Future directions in the non-statutory power of the executive government to contract and spend

14. Judicial review and the State Crown

15. The roles of an Australian Attorney-General

16. The Solicitor-General and the Crown

17. Advising and acting for the Crown.

Since 1901, when the Australian colonies united to form one federation - one united people, one indissoluble Federal Commonwealth, several states, one Crown - the notion of the Crown has remained a value-laden abstraction, defying legal definition. Aspects of its operation and application have been described, and aspects of its legal incidents and legal consequences have been identified. But its contours have never been mapped. The contributors to this book each shine a light on one particular dimension of the notion of the Crown. Discussions include the nature and role of the Crown; the concept of sovereignty with regards to the First Australians, and to the Australian people as a whole; the question of whether the Crown can do wrong; the roles of various law officers of the Commonwealth of Australia; and future directions for the Crown. Collectively, the chapters in this book do much to deepen our appreciation of the notion of the Crown. - Publisher's website.

Includes bibliographical references.

9781925261790

xiii, 379 p. ; 26 cm