In My Opinion
Subtitle: A History of Crown Law Queensland 1859 – 2009
Publisher: Crown Law, Department of Justice and Attorney-General, Queensland State Government
Published: November 2009
Place of publication: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: Foreword xi; title: Queensland’s Crown Solicitors & Solicitors-General xiii; title: 1 A history of the roles 1; title: English origins 3; title: Professional duties 3; title: Relationship with Parliament & Government 4; title: Remuneration & private practice 4; title: The Law Officers’ department 5; title: Treasury Solicitor & Director of Public Prosecutions 6; title: Colonial developments 7; title: Modern Law Officers 8; title: Defender of the courts & administration of justice 8; title: The Model Litigant 9; title: Separation & a short prequel 10; title: 2 The first Crown Solicitor 13; title: The Office 14; title: Home is where the heart is 16; title: 3 The controversial Mr Pring 17; title: The ledgers 18; title: Those were the days 22; title: 4 Lutwyche & Griffith 25; title: The Griffith years 27; title: 5 The first Solicitor-General 28; title: Public office 29; title: The protégé assumes power 31; title: All over too soon 32; title: Monuments of the people 33; title: 6 James Gill 36; title: The salary debate 36; title: Gill at work 39; title: Back in court 41; title: The Robb case 42; title: The Byrnes–Gill clash 44; title: The great bank case 45; title: Unrealised dreams 46; title: The great shearers’ strikes of 1891 47; title: The trials 48; title: Bilby v. Hartley 50; title: The Criminal Code 51; title: 7 The ‘other’ Crown Solicitor 53; title: 8 Charles Powers 56; title: As Crown Solicitor 58; title: 9 George Hellicar 60; title: Over the seas from Bristol 61; title: The fraternity 62; title: The great Queensland law case 63; title: As Crown Solicitor 65; title: 10 Thomas McCawley 67; title: As Crown Solicitor 68; title: The Ryan Government 69; title: The Workers’ Compensation Act 70; title: The Industrial Arbitration Act 72; title: The Eastern case 72; title: The Mooraberrie case 73; title: McCawley v. The King 76; title: 11 William Webb 81; title: As Crown Solicitor 82; title: Upper House abolition 84; title: Case by case basis 85; title: Wartime work 86; title: Prosecutors 87; title: As Solicitor-General 89; title: The Brennan bribery case 89; title: Staff in the Webb years 91; title: To the Bench 94; title: To the High Court 95; title: 12 H.J.H. Henchman 97; title: Work & war 97; title: As Crown Solicitor 100; title: To the rescue 101; title: Brothers in court 102; title: As Solicitor-General 103; title: Goodbyes are not forever 104; title: 13 Bill Hamilton 106; title: Career moves 107; title: 14 The men who raided Parliament 110; title: 15 Harry O’Driscoll 112; title: Now a professional 113; title: As Crown Solicitor 116; title: 16 Bill Ryan 117; title: A fine fellow 118; title: As Solicitor-General 121; title: 17 Les Skinner 124; title: From the ground up 124; title: Onward & upward 128; title: As Crown Solicitor 129; title: The ghost of memos past 130; title: Moving on 133; title: 18 Jim O’Callaghan 137; title: 19 Tom Parslow 139; title: The Pressler trials 147; title: Win some, lose some 148; title: Movement at the station 150; title: Tally-ho 153; title: Postscript 156; title: 20 Prosecutions in the ’60s 157; title: The life of a prosecutor 160; title: Crown Prosecutors’ Association 161; title: 21 Harry Carr-Boyd 166; title: 22 Commissions of Inquiry 170; title: Inquiry into Crown Solicitor’s Office 170; title: The Traveston rail disaster 173; title: The Mungana Royal Commission 173; title: Camp Mountain railway disaster 175; title: Drilling on the Reef 175; title: Drugs Royal Commissions 176; title: Lucas Committee of Inquiry 177; title: The Fitzgerald Inquiry 178; title: Russell Island 179; title: The Judges’ Inquiry 181; title: Cooke Inquiry into unions 181; title: The Moura Mine Inquiry 182; title: The Connolly/Ryan Inquiry 183; title: Aboriginal deaths in custody 184; title: Ward 10B 185; title: Ariadne 186; title: Operation Trident 186; title: The Forde Inquiry 187; title: The Cole Royal Commission 187; title: The Hospitals Inquiries 187; title: Equine influenza 190; title: Fuel Subsidy Inquiry 190; title: 23 Vince McMahon 191; title: 24 Major cases of the ’60s & ’70s 193; title: Section 92 193; title: The Springboks’ tour 197; title: Street marches 197; title: 25 Prosecutions in the ’70s 199; title: The Carstens case 199; title: The Whisky au Go Go murders 201; title: Mail robbery at Beerburrum 203; title: The Wardrop case 203; title: Circuits 204; title: 26 Memories of the Treasury Building 205; title: 27 Denis Galligan 208; title: Legends in the making 210; title: To the Privy Council 212; title: The Office of the early ’80s 213; title: 28 Don Hair 215; title: 29 Ken Mackenzie 219; title: 30 Roy Sammon 222; title: The Herberton Hospital Inquiry 223; title: 31 The first tremor of change 226; title: The aftershock 227; title: 32 Major cases of the ’80s 229; title: Lights out 230; title: Burdekin Falls Dam arbitration 232; title: Under starry skies above 234; title: The case of the world’s tallest building 235; title: 33 Good times 237; title: The Marrickville battle 239; title: 34 Ken O’Shea 241; title: The Branches 242; title: Constitutional challenges 246; title: It’s all urgent 247; title: Family influence 248; title: Final days 249; title: 35 Goodbye Gestetner 250; title: 36 Geoff Davies 252; title: Mabo 252; title: 37 It all started with the Fitzgerald Report 255; title: New laws, new work 256; title: The reviews in review 258; title: Coopers & Lybrand 259; title: Career paths for lawyers 260; title: The PSMC Review 262; title: The 1991 restructure 265; title: The lesser reviews that still count – ‘redesign’ 267; title: ‘Comprehensive evaluation’ 268; title: ‘Salary structures’ 268; title: Rethinking regrouping 268; title: Cullen Egan Dell 269; title: The Treasury Review – critical times 269; title: What EARC had to say about commercialisation 274; title: What PCEAR had to say about commercialisation 276; title: 38 To market, to market 277; title: 39 The Dunphy days 281; title: Cole v. Whitfield 282; title: The World Heritage case 282; title: The transition years 284; title: The J.L. Holdings case 286; title: A new era 287; title: Refinement of work teams 290; title: 40 The reviews continue 291; title: The 2001 review 291; title: Untying 292; title: The reviews reviewed; title: 41 Conrad Lohe 294; title: 42 Pat Keane 297; title: 43 The current Solicitor-General 300; title: 44 The current Crown Solicitor 302; title: 45 Crown Law today & beyond 304; title: The tick boxes 305; title: 46 The women of Crown Law 306; title: The typing pool 307; title: Early women lawyers 308; title: Always room for firsts 310; title: The balance sheet 312; title: End notes 313; title: Bibliography 327; title: Executive Sources 328; title: Newspapers, Periodicals & Journals 330; title: Online Sources 331; title: Parliamentary & Other Government Sources 332; title: Theses, Speeches, Transcripts & Unpublished Resource Material 333; title: Index of Cases 335; title: Indexes 335; title: Index of Statutes 337; title: General Index 338