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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.

New Legal Research Guide!

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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!

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Insight: Getting Away with Murder

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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.