The ‘illegal sentences which magistrates were daily passing’: The Backstory to Governor Richard Bourke's 1832 Punishment and Summary Jurisdiction Act in Convict New South Wales.

Recent literature has recast the history of the British empire as a vast project of intervention in and reordering of colonial legal administrations. Closer inspection of local moments of legal reform, however, reveals substantial complications and contradictions in that project. This article re-con...

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Published in:	Journal of Legal History Vol. 38; no. 3; pp. 231 - 254
Main Author:	Roberts, David Andrew
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Dec2017
Subjects:	Bourke, Richard Criminal sentencing Jurisdiction Punishment > History Law reform History of New South Wales Illegality Prisoners > History Nineteenth century History Australia
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