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I Like A Clamour - John Walpole Willis, Colonial Judge, Reconsidered (Hardcover)
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I Like A Clamour - John Walpole Willis, Colonial Judge, Reconsidered (Hardcover)
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The controversial career of John Walpole Willis is re-evaluated in
the first comprehensive study of his legal career. Willis, the
fifth judge to be appointed to the Supreme Court of New South
Wales, served in three colonies, and in each place he wrestled with
the role of the law in a rapidly-changing society. In Upper Canada,
he confronted the colony's transition from an oligarchy into a
nascent democracy; in his next posting, in British Guyana, he was
responsible for helping the colony implement, and absorb the
consequences of, the abolition of slavery. New South Wales, his
final posting, presented unique legal problems as it evolved from a
penal colony into a free settlement, and the new settlement at Port
Phillip began to grow. To these troubled societies, Judge Willis
brought an acute legal mind and a stormy personality aEURO" he was
twice dismissed from his post by the local Governor. Earlier
studies have tended to view him either as a wronged genius or a
vain, deranged misfit. Max Bonnell, an experienced lawyer and
Adjunct Professor of Law at Sydney University, has rediscovered
Willis as a contradictory figure aEURO" Australia's first activist
judge, who was nonetheless a stickler for the letter of the law;
the author of several remarkably humane and enlightened judgments,
who was capable of endorsing appalling cruelty; and a man who
insisted upon decorum and propriety, yet was undone by his own
conspicuous failures of self-control.
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