TY - BOOK ID - 85297184 TI - A history of Australian tort law 1901-1945 : England's obedient servant? PY - 2018 SN - 1108530184 1108399606 1108534449 1108423310 1108437400 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Common law KW - History. KW - Torts KW - History KW - Civil wrongs KW - Delicts KW - Injuries (Law) KW - Quasi delicts KW - Wrongful acts KW - Accident law KW - Actions and defenses KW - Liability (Law) KW - Obligations (Law) KW - Negligence KW - Reasonable care (Law) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85297184 AB - Little attention has been paid to the development of Australian private law throughout the first half of the twentieth century. Using the law of tort as an example, Mark Lunney argues that Australian contributions to common law development need to be viewed in the context of the British race patriotism that characterised the intellectual and cultural milieu of Australian legal practitioners. Using not only primary legal materials but also newspapers and other secondary sources, he traces Australian developments to what Australian lawyers viewed as British common law. The interaction between formal legal doctrine and the wider Australian contexts in which that doctrine applied provided considerable opportunities for nuanced innovation in both the legal rules themselves and in their application. This book will be of interest to both lawyers and historians keen to see how notions of Australian identity have contributed to the development of an Australian law. ER -