First Among Equals

By: John Emerson

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Hardcover | 1 October 2006 | Edition Number 1

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306 Pages

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Part history, part biography, First Among Equals takes us on a journey through the history of the State of South Australia as we follow the lives of the five Chief Justices who completed their term in the twentieth century. The book begins in the genteel South Australia of the last days of Queen Victoria when the Post Office and Town Hall Towers were the tallest structures in the Adelaide skyline. Its dominating personality then was Chief Justice Sir Samuel Way. He was also Lieutenant-Governor, Chancellor of the only university, and presided over the organizations that governed the Children?s Hospital, Art Gallery, Museum, Library, Zoo and Botanic Gardens. The twentieth century unfurled and the role of the Chief Justice in South Australia evolved. The State grew more sophisticated and the Courts expanded considerably. It achieved it final form under Len King, Chief Justice from 1978 until 1995, whose legacy is the form it holds now. See also titles in the Lives of Australian Chief Justices series.

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[A] very readable and instructive book. It will be much enjoyed by the general reader as well as by legal practitioners, legal academics and historians. ... an indispensable addition to one's reading list over the Christmas vacation. More importantly, it is a worthwhile contribution to the relative dearth of legal biography in Australia now being remedied by the work of people like Dr Emerson and Dr Bennett. - Bulletin (Law Society of South Australia), Vol 29(1), Feb 2007

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