Tutorial by Megan Cameron 24 October 2023
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"The work of Magistrates in early colonial New South Wales"Megan Cameron is a PhD candidate at the Sydney University law school. Her thesis is about the magistrates of the early New South Wales colony (1800-1835). Megan is examining the powers given (and taken) by magistrates, and their interaction with three convict rebellions. Those rebellions are the Vinegar Hill rebellion of 1804, the Ribbon Boy rebellion of 1830, and the Castle Forbes uprising of 1834. In examining those three rebellions, Megan will show how magistrates had both power which was given to them (through their commission of the peace, and their oath of office), and power which they took (powers derived from statute, and from the personal gravitas of each magistrate). The work will show that magistrates had a substantial degree of personal power, which they exercised particularly in relation to convicts in the early colonial period.
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Tutorial by Megan Cameron 24 October 2023
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