Book review: A History of Australian Tort Law 1901-1945: England's Obedient Servant?' by Mark Lunney (Cambridge University Press, 2018)

This book review of Mark Lunney's work emphasises the distinctively Australian law developed by local courts and local legislatures, despite the existence of a right of appeal to the Privy Council and the notion of a single common law of England. It also addresses the use of primary contemporan...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Goudkamp, J
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Bloomsbury 2019
Description
Summary:This book review of Mark Lunney's work emphasises the distinctively Australian law developed by local courts and local legislatures, despite the existence of a right of appeal to the Privy Council and the notion of a single common law of England. It also addresses the use of primary contemporaneous materials, including newspaper reports and judicial diaries, and the role of legal history in the principled and coherent development of the law in the 21st century.