Catalogue
Catalogue
Object Type
Name/Title
Random recollections: notes on a lifetime at the bar
Primary Maker
Contributor/Publisher
Otago Daily Times and Witness Newspapers Company
Place
Date
1939
Physical Description
xii, 332 pages : portrait ; 20 cm
Level of Current Record
Bib record
Member Object
Subject Category
Content
Years & years ago -- A vision and the reality -- Changing scenes -- Youth faces the future -- Professional beginnings and encouragements -- Experience and recognition -- A warning to justices -- Conduct of cases -- Questions and answers -- Trial by jury -- Twice charged and discharged -- The twelve men -- Verdicts and cases -- Present-day problems -- The strange story of a wreck -- Baby-farming at Winton: Unexampled callousness ; A child is procured ; Mysterious disappearance in train ; Minnie Dean charged ; Macabre activities revealed ; Murder, manslaughter, or misadventure? ; "A weak-kneed compromise" ; Supreme penalty paid ; A last letter -- The defence of prisoners -- The case of Charles Clements -- A political interlude -- The Tapanui murder trial: Circumstanital evidence ; Wills's view ; Murder of Sing Tong ; Damning evidence ; Unusual development in trial ; Turning the tables ; "Not guilty" -- Memories of the road -- A peculiarly unpleasant case -- Perjury and manslaughter -- Who shot William Wogan? -- Some thoughts on divorce -- "The dear old judge."
Public Access Text
Associated Notes
Collection Type
Reserve Collection
Copyright
All rights reserved
Last Update
19 Dec 2023
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