Injustice within the law: a study of the case of the Dorsetshire labourers
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Book
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Category
Australia and New Zealand
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Publication Year
1937
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Pages
xiv pages
Subject
Australia
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Abstract
"The great case of the six Dorchester labourers, George Loveless, James Loveless (his brother), Thomas Standfield, John Standfield (his son), James Hammett and Joseph Brine, who in 1834 were sentenced to seven years transportation to Australia for administering unlawful oaths, is only partly rescued from the comparative obscurity to which legal historians had long consigned it. The case was omitted from an adequate report, even in the New Series of the State Trials, which were devised in 1875 to fill the gap left from the year 1820, at which Howell's reports ceased." -- page 1.
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Content:
I. The importance of the case -- II. Social and economic background -- III. The politicians and trade unionism -- IV. Organization of the prosecution -- V. "The course of justice" -- VI. What the magistrates did -- VII. Part played by the juries -- VIII. An account of the evidence -- IX. Were the convictions bad? -- X. Opinions as to the legal position -- XI. Judge Williams and the sentences -- XII. Whigs and Tories in agreement -- XIII. Treatment of the prisoners in Australia -- XIV. The pardons -- XV. The church's attitude -- XVI. Consequences of the case -- XVII. The lesson of martyrdom.
I. The importance of the case -- II. Social and economic background -- III. The politicians and trade unionism -- IV. Organization of the prosecution -- V. "The course of justice" -- VI. What the magistrates did -- VII. Part played by the juries -- VIII. An account of the evidence -- IX. Were the convictions bad? -- X. Opinions as to the legal position -- XI. Judge Williams and the sentences -- XII. Whigs and Tories in agreement -- XIII. Treatment of the prisoners in Australia -- XIV. The pardons -- XV. The church's attitude -- XVI. Consequences of the case -- XVII. The lesson of martyrdom.
Biblio Notes
A study of the "case of the six Dorchester labourers, George Loveless, James Loveless (his brother), Thomas Standfield, John Standfield (his son), James Hammett and Joseph Brine, who in 1834 were sentenced to seven years transportation to Australia for administering unlawful oaths." cf. p. 1.
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