Author: Great Britain. Office of Commonwealth Relations
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1066

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Author: Australia
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 886

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Author: Australia. Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs
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Languages : en
Pages : 120

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Author: Gabrielle Appleby
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 150990395X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 342

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Behind every government there is an impressive team of hard-working lawyers. In Australia, the Solicitor-General leads that team. A former Attorney-General once said, 'The Solicitor-General is next to the High Court and God.' And yet the role of government lawyers in Australia, and specifically the Solicitor-General as the most senior of government lawyers, is under-theorised and under-studied. The Role of the Solicitor-General: Negotiating Law, Politics and the Public Interest goes behind the scenes of government – drawing from interviews with over 45 government and judicial officials – to uncover the history, theory and practice of the Australian Solicitor-General. The analysis reveals a role that is of fundamental constitutional importance to ensuring both the legality and the integrity of government action, thus contributing to the achievement of rule-of-law ideals. The Solicitor-General also works to defend government action and prosecute government policies in the court, and thus performs an important role as messenger between the political and judicial branches of government. But the Solicitor-General's position, as both an internal integrity check on government and an external warrior for government, gives rise to competing pressures: between the law, politics and the public interest. The office of the Solicitor-General in Australia has evolved many characteristics across the almost two centuries of its history in an attempt to navigate these tensions. These pressures are not unique to the Australian context. The understanding of the Australian position provided by this book is informed by, and will inform, comparative analysis of the role of government lawyers across the world.

Author: Pamela Burton
Publisher: Trans Pacific Press
ISBN: 9781742580982
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 516

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This is the remarkable story of Mary Gaudron AC QC, the first female Justice of the High Court of Australia. With wit, astonishing intellect and the tool of the law, Gaudron exposed inequality and discrimination in the workforce and campaigned vigorously for women to be accorded equal pay and equal opportunities.

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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 782

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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1160

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Author: Patrick Keyzer
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317073339
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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In recent years, controversy has surrounded the role of top government lawyers in the United States and the United Kingdom. Allegations of bad lawyering and bad ethics in public office over the ’torture memos’ in the United States and the political pressure placed on the Attorney-General in the United Kingdom to approve the legality of the Iraq war, have seen these relatively obscure group of government lawyers thrust into the public debate. Unlike its Anglo-American contemporaries, Australia’s chief legal adviser, the Solicitor-General, has remained largely out of the public eye. This collection provides a rare and overdue insight into a fundamental public institution in all Australian jurisdictions. It provides a historical, theoretical, practical and comparative perspective of this little known, but vitally important, office at a time when the transparency and accountability of government has taken on an increased significance. Of interest to anyone interested in the integrity of government, the book will be particularly useful to government, political parties and the academy. It will also be a valuable reference work to those working towards a redefinition of the role of top government legal advisors.

Author: New South Wales
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Category : Gazettes
Languages : en
Pages : 2078

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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 1736

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