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      • Edited by Andrew Lynch, University of New South Wales, Sydney
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      20 October 2016
      08 September 2016
      ISBN:
      9781316665824
      9781107158535
      9781316611159
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316665824
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.73kg, 394 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.6kg, 392 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Constitutional and Administrative Law, Law, Australian Politics, Politics and International Relations
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    Constitutional and Administrative Law, Law, Australian Politics, Politics and International Relations
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    When judges disagree, those in the minority write a dissenting opinion. This book considers the great dissents in Australian law. Their worth may derive from numerous factors, including their rhetorical force as a piece of legal reasoning or emotive power as a judicial lament for the 'error' into which the majority has fallen; the general importance of the issue at stake; as a challenge to the orthodoxy; and, sometimes, the subsequent recognition of a dissenting opinion's correctness and its ultimate vindication. On some occasions, all these features may be strongly present, on others only some. Through a diverse selection of memorable dissenting opinions, this book illuminates the topic of judicial disagreement more generally - not only through examples of instances when minority opinions have been distinctly valuable, but by drawing out a richer understanding of the attributes and circumstances which lead some dissents to become iconic, while so many lie forgotten.

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