Great Australian Dissents
Andrew Lynch
ISBN: | 9781107158535 |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Published: | 30 September, 2016 |
Format: | Hardcover |
Language: | English |
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Great Australian Dissents
Andrew Lynch
When judges disagree, those in the minority write a dissenting opinion. This book considers the great dissents in Australian law. Their worth may derive from numerous factors, including their rhetorical force as a piece of legal reasoning or emotive power as a judicial lament for the 'error' into which the majority has fallen; the general importance of the issue at stake; as a challenge to the orthodoxy; and, sometimes, the subsequent recognition of a dissenting opinion's correctness and its ult
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