Category: Law
Celebrating International Women's Day: March 1945 Queenslands First Female Juror
From the State Library of Queensland Blog
On 1 March 1945 Queensland's first female juror was empanelled at Brisbane's Supreme Court. Nellie Bishop, a housewife from Kelvin Grove who had never before been inside a courtroom, was thrust into the media spotlight. "I was scared stiff" she told a reporter from The Courier Mail
Newspaper articles about Nellie are available on Trove.
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New Legal Research Guide!
The Library has published a new Legal Research Guide for the start of Semester 1, 2013!
For those students who have never used our Legal Research Guide, this is where you can access:
- Legal encyclopaedias and dictionaries
- Australian and international case law
- Legislation
- Hansard and parliamentary documents
- Key databases for legal information
You can access the Guide using the link below, or via the Walter Harrison Law Library homepage. Don't forget to bookmark it while you are there!
Visit the Legal
Research Guide
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Insight: Getting Away with Murder
Did you miss this?
Insight: Getting Away with Murder SBS1 November 2012
Provocation defence: The Insight panel and audience members discuss whether
the defence of provocation should remain in the Australian legal system and
how to deal with often ambiguous cases of murder and manslaughter.
You can watch it on Informit TVNews, a database available from Library Databases.
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