Foreword by Professor Stephen Garton
Acknowledgements
A Pedantic Note on Judicial Titles
List of Illustrations
Dramatis Personae
A Pleasant, Lively, Talkative Youth
The Timely Arrival of Mr Stephen
I Will Not Be a Judge If I Can Be Attorney-General
Too Impertinent For a ‘Colonial Attorney-General’
A Bold Step
“Scenes In Open Court” and a “Court of Honour”
The Step to a Chief Justiceship
The Praise of Unwearying Industry
Every Confidence In the Ability of the Judges
Approaching Responsible Government
An Object of Legitimate and Honourable Ambition
Kill No More Chief Justices
He Never Saw a Better Judge
Put to Flight by That Fellow Hargrave
The Liberality of Parliament
Vice-Regal Notices
Uninformed Talk – The Babble of Ignorance
Inexorable Dogma and Unreasoning Ecclesiasticism
Old Sir A. Stephen is Equal to Any
Getting Beyond a Joke
Abbreviations
Notes
General Index
Statute Index