Litigation past and present / edited by Wilfrid Prest and Sharyn Roach Anleu.

Sydney : UNSW Press, 2004.

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Actions and defences -- Australia.

Actions and defences -- History.

1. Litigation: historical and contemporary dimensions

2. The longitudinal study of civil litigation in England 1200-1996

3. Some figures behind the numbers: going to law in early-modern England

4. Litigation in the early years of the Canterbury settlement 1852-61

5. When married women litigate: issues from divorce and property disputes in colonial and contemporary Australia

6. Hey, but who's counting? The metrics and politics of trends in civil litigation

7. Litigation and the Federal justice system

8. Litigation reform 1980-2000: a radical challenge?

9. Challenging the status quo: Indigenous activism and the rule of law in Australia

10. International law as litigation strategy for indigenous Australians: a comparison of the Mabo and Nulyarimma cases.

Includes index.

0868405507

xiii, 209 p.