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Legal Limits


ISBN13: 9781862879386
Published: October 2013
Publisher: The Federation Press
Country of Publication: Australia
Format: Paperback
Price: £32.99



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Legal Limits explores the uneasy relationship between law and literature.

A concern for the fate of the individual in society, an interest in the truth of any matter in contention, forms of narrative, matters of conscience – lawyers and writers share preoccupations of this kind but deal with them in different ways. The legal system looks for a just result by reference to evidence, objectivity and reason. Literary works resort to mood and speculation, but in doing so they can reveal important truths.

Nicholas Hasluck’s lengthy experience as a lawyer and novelist enable him to provide a clearer understanding of the relationship. His views will be of value to practising lawyers, especially advocates, for due process depends upon stories being told well.

The wide-ranging discussion in this book, embracing controversial topics such as preventive detention for sexual offenders, recent restrictions upon freedom of speech and the role of constitutional conventions in the Whitlam dismissal, concludes with a thoughtful Afterword by a leading constitutional lawyer, Peter Johnston. In revisiting Hasluck’s acclaimed novel The Bellarmine Jug, he shows that literary works can be used to cast light on the rule of law and the meaning of justice.

Subjects:
Law and Literature
Contents:
Author Biographies
Dedication

Legal Limits
Thought Crimes in Post-colonial Literature
Being Somewhere Else
Other Customs
Vanishing Borders
Seeing What Happened
In Cupid’s Court
Should Judges be Mediators?
Beyond the High Court
The Whitlam Dismissal Revisited
Constitutions and Reconstitutions

Afterword
References