Publications containing Lost Cases Material

Articles and Chapters

Stuart Anderson, 'Commercial law on the beach: Shore Whaling Litigation in Early Colonial New Zealand: MacFarlane v Crummer (1845)', Victoria University of Wellington Law Review, Volume 41, Number 3, 2010, 453-472.

Richard Boast, 'Contextualising the Decisions of the Native Land Court: The Chatham Islands Investigations of 1870', Victoria University of Wellington Law Review, Volume 41, Number 3, 2010, 623-652.

Shaunnagh Dorsett, 'Making Up the Issue: The Judges' Role in Formulating Actions in the (New Zealand) Crown Colony Period - Pharazyn v. Smith (1844)', Victoria University of Wellington Law Review, Volume 41, Number 3, 2010, 427-452.

Shaunnagh Dorsett, 'Sovereignty as Governance in the Early New Zealand Crown Colony Period', Law And Politic in British Colonial Thought: Transpositions of Empire (New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2010)

Shaunnagh Dorsett, 'Sworn on the Dirt of Graves: Sovereignty, Jurisdiction and the Judicial Abrogation of ‘Barbarous’ Customs in New Zealand in the 1840s' The Journal of Legal History, Volume 30, Issue 2, 2009, pp175-197.

Ned Fletcher and Rt Hon Dame Sian Elias, 'A Collusive Suit to "Confound the Rights of Property Through the Length and Breadth of the Colony?': Busby v White (1859)', Victoria University of Wellington Law Review, Volume 41, Number 3, 2010, 563-604.

Bruce Kercher, 'Informal Land Titles: Snowden v Baker (1844)', Victoria University of Wellington Law Review, Volume 41, Number 3, 2010, 605-622.

Mark Hickford, '‘Vague Native Rights to Land’: British Imperial Policy on Native Title and Custom in New Zealand, 1837–53', The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, Volume 38, Issue 2, 2010, pp175 – 206

Charlotte Macdonald, 'Land, Death and Dower in the Settler Empire: the Lost Cause of "The Widow's Third" in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand', Victoria University of Wellington Law Review, Volume 41, Number 3, 2010, 493-518.

Geoff McLay, 'The Problem with Suing Sovereigns: Sloman (1876),Victoria University of Wellington Law Review, Volume 41, Number 3, 2010, 403-426.

Grant Morris, 'Bench v Bar: Contempt of Court in the New Zealand Legal Profession in Gillon v MacDonald (1878)’, Victoria University of Wellington Law Review, Volume 41, Number 3, 2010, 541-562.

Megan Simpson, ‘The action for breach of promise of marriage in early colonial New Zealand: Fitzgerald v Clifford (1846)’, Victoria University of Wellington Law Review, Volume 41, Number 3, 2010, 473-492.

Damen Ward, 'Legislation, Repugnancy and Disallowance of Colonial Laws: The Legal Structure of Empire and Lloyd's case (1844), Victoria University of Wellington Law Review, Volume 41, Number 3, 2010, 403-426.

David Williams, 'The prehistory of the English Laws Act 1858: McLiver v Macky (1856), Victoria University of Wellington Law Review, Volume 41, Issue 3, 2010


Case Notes

Shaunnagh Dorsett, ‘R v E Hipu’, Victoria University of Wellington Law Review, Volume 41, No.1, 2010, pp89-96

Megan Simpson, ‘R v Margaret Reardon’, Victoria University of Wellington Law Review, Volume 41, No.1, 2010, pp97-106


Conference Papers

Richard Boast, 'New Zealand legal historiography', New Directions in History and Culture Aotearoa New Zealand, Victoria University, September 2009

Richard Boast, 'The Maungatautari Cases in the Native Land Court', 28th Annual Australian and New Zealand Law and History Conference, Victoria University, December 2009

Shaunnagh Dorsett, 'Defects of Religious Principle’ and Unsworn Maori Testimony in the New Zealand Courts 1840-1850', 28th Annual Australian and New Zealand Law and History Conference, Victoria University, December 2009

Megan Simpson, ‘Bigamy Prosecution in colonial New Zealand, 1840-1880’, New Zealand Historical Association Conference, Massey University, November 2009

Megan Simpson, ‘Criminal Bigamy cases in colonial New Zealand, 1840-1880’, 28th Annual Australian and New Zealand Law and History Conference, Victoria University, December 2009

Damen Ward, 'Courts, settler politics and the franchise in New Zealand, c. 1846-1858', 28th Annual Australian and New Zealand Law and History Conference, Victoria University, December 2009


Postgraduate Research

Jessica Brown, ‘Trouble in Paradise: Marital Conflict and Desertion in Colonial New Zealand, 1849-1867’, Honours Research Essay (History), Victoria University of Wellington, 2010

Erin Cozens, ‘Title TBC’, PhD Thesis (History), University of Hawaii Manoa, in progress

Debra Powell, ‘The Ogress, the Innocent, and the Madman: Gender and Narrative in Child Homicide Trials in New Zealand, 1870-1925’, PhD Thesis (History), Waikato University, in progress