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Decisions of the Superior Courts of New South Wales, 1788-1899 |
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USING THIS SITE CASES Important Forbes period judgments Cases concerning coup against Governor Bligh ("Rum Rebellion")
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This site was created to publish many of the hidden court records of the superior courts of New South Wales. At present it concentrates on the decisions of the Supreme Courts and other courts of unlimited jurisdiction between 1788 and 1841. The site is presently under construction, and we will be adding new cases. NEWS (past news items) September 2009. We have now placed Alex Castles' Index to Van Diemen's Land Cases online. September 2009. We are now preparing cases for the period between 1828 and the 1860s. These will be published in a final volume of law reports. We have begun putting 1840s cases online. December 2008. In a major development for the legal history of the Pacific region, the New Zealand Lost Cases project has begun appearing online. November 2008. We have now completed proofreading the book, and will gradually transfer the proofread cases to this site. The book will be called The Kercher Reports: Decisions of the New South Wales Superior Courts, 1788 to 1827 (edited by Bruce Kercher and Brent Salter). It should be published in the next few months. We have replaced the existing case text with newly proofread cases for the following years: 1788-1807. We are working through the rest chronologically. This will be complete when we reach 1824, after which all cases will have been proofread.
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OTHER FEATURES Justice Burton's collected documents concerning Aborigines 1797-1840 THE PROJECT OTHER SITES |
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