Professional Rugby League star and entrepreneur David King is thrust into a deadly game when his family is kidnapped and held to ransom. King goes on a blood-fuelled rampage to retrieve them from the clutches of their captors - will he succeed or will their fate be sealed? ..

This book, loosely modelled on Robert Megarry's Miscellany at Law , presents thematically true stories drawn from the spread of Australian legal history and case law. Discover: who was Australia's youngest judge instances of extreme rudeness in court and between judges which judges served the longest and shortest terms in office the barriers facing women who wanted to practise law and when they were scaled which judge was tried and acquitted of murder and which law officer was convicted of murder and sentenced to hang and, learn about humor of all sorts in the profession as well as amusing aspects of Australian laws interface with religion, art, spor ..

Old Law, New Law follows the author's Lawyers Then and Now in offering a miscellany of genuine legal stories drawn from Australian legal history as well as its modern law. If there is any change of focus, this work looks at the people of the law through the prism of established or changing legal doctrines and processes. The chapter headings will show that quirky humanity intrudes into the most doctrinaire of fields (such as statutory interpretation and tort law) and that law intrudes into every facet of human life (including food, drink and sex). As in the former work, there is much comparing of attitudes past and present, while observing the underlying con ..