Malcolm Hardwick correspondence, legal and court records relating to the legal profession, administration of criminal justice and court cases in New South Wales, 1937-1987, including Bishop Francis de Witt Batty memoirs collected by Professor Ken Cable for proposed biography, 1968-1987

MLMSS 8251

fonds

1937-1987

Textual Records, Clippings, Ephemera

139447

0.96 metres of textual material (6 boxes) - manuscript, typescript, printed

Malcolm Hardwick, barrister, practiced in Phillip Street, Sydney ca. 1970-1980, representing clients in a number of court cases. He was also involved in appeals relating to the administration of criminal justice, court cases and law reform in New South Wales, including enquiries into the legal profession.

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Compiled from the collection

BOX 1
Correspondence and minutes relating to the Oxford Society membership, events and functions, 1938-1963, including letters between Hardwick and Bishop of Newcastle relating to his attendance at school and university events and meetings, and President Sir David Maughan

New South Wales Bar Association correspondence, reports, memorandums, newscuttings, draft notes and publications relating to enquiry into legal profession in New South Wales, professional misconduct and law vacations, and the publication of obituaries and information about members in the Australian Law Journal and Sydney Morning Herald, 1954-1987

Malcolm Hardwick political correspondence relating to administration of criminal justice, the Criminal Appeal Bill, criminal laws and law reform in New South Wales, 1968-1972. Includes newscuttings relating to the NSW Prisons Royal Commissions and letters signed by Premier R. W. Askin, 17 March 1971 and Attorney General Ken McCaw, 9 March 1971

Malcolm Hardwick correspondence with clients, politicians and solicitors, and newscuttings relating to court cases, his work as Barrister in Sydney, 1970-1984, includes manuscript notes for an obituary on Sir Owen Dixon and related newscuttings

Correspondence between Malcolm Hardwick and Justice Michael Kirby Chairman of the Law Reform Commission, relating to drug addiction, driver disqualification and traffic laws, 1980-1984, includes printed Discussion Paper ‘Social Policies on Drugs: Alcohol, Cannabis, heroin’ and newscutting on Road Tolls

Correspondence notes, resolutions, memorandums, minutes and conference proceedings relating to the establishment of Federal Council of Law Reporting, 1982-1985, including letters from Gareth Evans, Michael D Kirby, Peter Durack, Harry Gibbs, Sir John Young, John Howard, and a report on the Australian Law Reform Commission by Justice M.D. Kirby

BOX 2
Four Supreme Court of New South Wales appeal books mainly relating to Elizabeth Sherman vs Nymboida Colliers including supplementary appeal book, transcript of proceedings relating to Elizabeth Baltch vs Florence May Brandon and Janet Laurie Bellion, and including photocopies, 1937-1963

Privy Council and High Court of Australia transcripts of court proceedings, statements and notices of motion for appeal, 1952-1960, including correspondence with solicitors, relating to R.S.P.C.A. vs Benevolent Society, Edie Maud Leeder vs. Nance Ellis, Ian George McLennan vs Buswick Wynn Haylock, Commissioner of Taxation of the Commonwealth vs Rollande Danielle Belford

BOX 3
Correspondence, draft notes, and transcripts of court proceedings relating to Stephen Edward Tulk appeal to the High Court of Australia and Court of Criminal Appeal, including photocopies of sentence in the Central Criminal Court, applications for special leave, and correspondence with solicitors, 1968-1971

Transcript of court proceedings and judgments in the High Court relating Jack Bailey vs. John Leslie Kelsey High Court of Australia, 1959 and appeal book containing transcript of proceedings on appeal from the Supreme Court of Northern Territory

Appeal book in Supreme Court of New South Wales relating to Mervyn King and David Hardie vs. James Hodson, 1947

High Court of Australia legal and court records relating to Elizabeth Sherman and Nymboida Collieries on appeal from Supreme Court of New South Wales, 1961-1973, including typed transcript of appeal, letters from High Court Registrar and solicitors enclosing copies of legal papers, statements, judgments, proceedings, affadavits, memorandums relating to court case

BOX 4
Malcolm Hardwick notes of argument and correspondence with solicitors, legal and court papers relating to Percy Simons vs. Anthony Eugene Middleton Gale Privy Council Appeal, 1955-1958

High Court of Australia transcript record of proceedings relating to Stephen Peter Kelbuy vs. the Queen on appeal from the Court of Criminal Appeal New South Wales, 1973

NSW Legislative Council report from the Select Committee on Violent Sex Crimes in New South Wales with proceedings and minutes, 1969

Correspondence between Malcolm Hardwick and Joint Secretary G.N.H. and Grose Rupert Cross from the Faculty of Law at University of Sydney, 1965-1968, enclosing memorandums and corrected transcripts relating to amendments to Victorian Crimes Act, police powers of arrest and interrogation and evidence before the Victorian Statute Law Revision Committee

Appeal Book relating to the Commissioner for Railways vs. James Horace Badham in the Supreme Court of New South Wales, 1952

BOX 5
Appeal book relating to Stephen Peter Kilby vs. the Queen on appeal from the Court of Criminal Appeal NSW in the High Court, including correspondence between Malcolm Hardwick and Jim Merralls enclosing legal and court records, corrections to reports, transcripts and appeal cases, 1972-1973

Legal and court records relating to Denzil Vaughan Montague Bradley vs. the Commonwealth and Bradley vs Corporate Affairs Commission case of litigation relating to business name Rhodesia Information Centre, including copies of related correspondence with solicitors and federal authorities, appeal book, transcript of proceedings in the High Court of Australia, judgments, briefs, notices of appeal, memorandums, legislation, notes and summaries, 1972-1977

BOX 6
Appeal papers relating to Roy Van Der Spuy vs. the Commonwealth in the High Court of Australia and the cancellation of the name Rhodesia Information Centre, 1973-1975, including briefs, memorandums and related correspondence

Francis de Witt Batty papers, draft obituaries, newscuttings and typed memoirs collected by Professor Ken Cable of University of Sydney for proposed biography of Batty, 1968-1987, including correspondence mainly between Malcolm Hardwick, Ken Cable and publishers relating to the biography

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