A History of Australian Tort Law 1901-1945: England's Obedient Servant?

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A History of Australian Tort Law 1901-1945: England's Obedient Servant?

By Mark Lunney
Cambridge University Press January 2018

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ISBN-13
9781108423311
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
January 2018
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Little attention has been paid to the development of Australian private law throughout the first half of the twentieth century.

Using the law of tort as an example, Mark Lunney argues that Australian contributions to common law development need to be viewed in the context of the British race patriotism that characterised the intellectual and cultural milieu of Australian legal practitioners.

Using not only primary legal materials but also newspapers and other secondary sources, he traces Australian developments to what Australian lawyers viewed as British common law. The interaction between formal legal doctrine and the wider Australian contexts in which that doctrine applied provided considerable opportunities for nuanced innovation in both the legal rules themselves and in their application.

This book will be of interest to both lawyers and historians keen to see how notions of Australian identity have contributed to the development of an Australian law.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Historiography and the history of Australian private law in the first half of the 20th century: Et in Arcadia Ego?
3. Avoiding and interpreting the 'refinements of English law': Defamation in Australia 1901-1945
4. Politics, politicians, the press and the law of defamation
5. Negligence and the boundaries of liability: liability for acts of third parties
6. Negligence and the vexing question of shock-induced harm
7. Negligence and the boundaries of liability: government and quasi-government liability
8. In defence of King and country
9. Environment and Australian tort law: the problem of fire and weeds
10. Sport and recreation: tort law and the national pastime 1901-1945
11. Conclusion.
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