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I Like A Clamour: John Walpole Willis, Colonial Judge, Reconsidered


ISBN13: 9781760020866
Published: January 2017
Publisher: The Federation Press
Country of Publication: Australia
Format: Hardback
Price: £56.95



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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 – 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 – 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.

Subjects:
Other Jurisdictions , Biography, Australia
Contents:
Introduction: Grimaces on the bench
1. Great disrespect and insult
2. The satisfaction of a gentleman
3. An attachment to Lady Mary
4. It is intended to commit that Jurisdiction to Mr Willis
5. You have not got your Equity Court yet
6. I dare say his Object will appear
7. An inferior situation
8. Little Insects
9. Dissolved, annulled, vacated and made void
10. No unfriendly feelings
11. We cannot be bound
12. He devours a pig or goat daily
13. My shattered constitution
14. The expression of my mortification
15. Neither of my colleagues particularly love me
16. Destroying the web of sophistry
17. Very gross rudeness
18. The most malignant and diabolical dispositions
19. A mean, lickspittle business
20. The gentlemen of the profession
21. A friend to free discussions
22. A vast and hitherto neglected, oppressed and deeply injured multitude
23. High and responsible situations
24. Circumstances have occurred
25. Over a glass of grog
26. The necessary directions
27. I like a clamour
Appendix A: Dramatis personae
Appendix B: Secretaries of State for War and the Colonies, 1827-1846