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Selden Society lecture series Australia
Join a variety of judicial officers, legal professionals and academics for this informative and provocative series of legal history lectures. Each episode presents a single story uncovering a unique aspect of our common law past. This might be literature or language, a fascinating event or item, a significant person, or the development of a legal idea. These lectures are recorded in the Banco Court, Brisbane, and are now available to the world.
Selden Society lecture series Australia
Leading cases of the common law – McKenzie v McKenzie [1971] P 33
This lecture examines the celebrated 1971 English case of McKenzie v McKenzie, in which the Court of Appeal unanimously affirmed the important principle that any person conducting proceedings in court is entitled to quiet assistance from a person of their choice. 2019 marks fifty years since the initial divorce trial of McKenzie v McKenzie in London. The lecture is presented by Ian Hanger AM QC, who was the original ‘McKenzie’s friend’.