Defending the rights of all : a history of the Law Society of New South Wales

Sydney : Law Society of N.S.W., 2016.

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Law Society of New South Wales -- History.

Lawyers -- New South Wales.

Chapter 1. Small beginings : until 1884

Chapter 2. Breakthrough : 1884-1934

Chapter 3. Power plays : 1935-1966

Chapter 4. Politics and the law : 1967-1989

Chapter 5. Coups and pressure : 1990-2015

Chapter 6. Overcoming barriers : women in law

Chapter 7. War service : lawyers in combat

Chapter 8. Upholding honour : the rouges

Chapter 9. Beyond the city limits : the 'burbs and the bush

Chapter 10. How the society works : about the Law Society of New South Wales

Past presidents

Committees 2016.

"What would become of society if it were not for the due administration of justice? How can justice possibly be separated from the law? Or from the professional man to whom the administration of the law is entrusted? So argued the Chief Justice James Dowling in 1842, in the face of a move to establish courts without lawyers in the young colony of New South Wales. The debate galvanised a small group of legal gentlemen to create a Society which would support the profession's honour, independence and respectability and "promote fair and liberal practice therein". Almost 175 years on, that small group of men has grown to close to 30,000 men and women practising as solicitors in New South Wales. The Society which represents them, though, works to the same ideals - upholding the honour of the profession, ensuring the administration of justice and defending the rights of all." -- Publisher's website.

9780646960432

288 p. ; 27 cm