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Courts & crime, 1937

8,720 stories in Sydney's papers · page 64 of 250

Gipsies in New Camp Quarrel Close Police Watch

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 20 February 1937 · page 5

Some of the gipsies who left the camp at Liverpool Road, near Landsdowns Bridge, after the fierce fight on Thursday, have apparently returned…

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Rest Pause with Tea Claims in Court

The Labor Daily · Saturday 20 February 1937 · page 5

Next Monday the case for a new award for the Textile Workers' Union will come before the Federal Arbitration Court in Melbourne. The existing award was made…

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District Court. (Before Judge Thomson.) Claim on Cheque

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 February 1937 · page 12

The Balmain Co-operative Society, Ltd. (in liquidation) sued John Raymond Marquette, of Pacific Hlglrv.ay, St. Leonards, for £50, alleged to be due on a cheque given in…

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Law Notices. Saturday. February 20. Federal Bankruptcy Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 February 1937 · page 12

Before his Honor Mr. Justice Lukin, Federal Judge in Bankruptcy, 7th floor, Commonwealth Bank Building, 112 Pitt-street.—At 10 a.m.—Motion under Section 95: Re Austin James Lynch, ex…

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Court of Criminal Appeal. False Pretences. Rex v Roberts

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 February 1937 · page 12

The Court dismissed an appeal by Robert Francis Roberts, who was found guilty at the Sydney Quarter Sessions of having obtained £ 40 by means of a false pretence…

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Land and Valuation Court (Before Mr. Acting Justice Roper.) Country Appeals

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 February 1937 · page 12

F. W. Hughes Proprietary, Ltd., and the Water Conservation and Irrigation Commission, respectively, appealed against the decisions of the local land board, Narrandera, in…

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Right of Action by Relatives Decision Reserved By Full Court Car Tragedy

The Labor Daily · Saturday 20 February 1937 · page 5

THE Full Court yesterday reserved judgment on demurrers in the cases of three claims under the Compensation to Relatives Act, totalling…

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Road Accidents. Increase in Police Patrols. Experiment in Britain. (British Official Wireless.) LONDON, Feb. 19

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 February 1937 · page 18

A scheme for the use of specially trained police as road patrols to secure a wider understanding and observance of the highway code, in the hope of reducing the number of road…

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London Topics. an Idle Dream. Police Try Politeness. (From Our Special Correspondent.) London, Feb. 3

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 February 1937 · page 16

All work in connection with the Government's plan for a vast block of offices on the site of Montague House, in Whitehall, has been stopped, just as the…

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Supreme Court's Reform Powers Given To U.S. Congress Retiring Age Washington

The Labor Daily · Saturday 20 February 1937 · page 1

PUSHING ahead with his programme for the reform of the Supreme Court, President Roosevelt has made the Senate the centre for…

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Court's Powers. Restriction Proposals. Bills Before U.S.A. Congress. Washington. Feb. 19

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 February 1937 · page 18

Because informal polls show that the fate of the Judicial programme is likely to rest on the decision of less than a dozen Senators, the supporters of President Roosevelt…

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Law Report. High Court of Australia. (Before Mr. Justice McTiernan.) Land Tax Assessments

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 February 1937 · page 12

Dymock's Book Arcade, Limited, v Federal Commissioner of Taxation. The case stands part heard…

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In the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory. (Before Mr. Justice Lukin). Mcinnes and Company, Limited (in Liquidation) v V. B. McINNES

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 February 1937 · page 12

Judgment was reserved in this application by V. B. Mcinnes that his name be remuved from the list of contributaries to Mcinnes and Company, Limited, in respect of 10,000…

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The Schoolboy Detective Burglary

The Sun · Sunday 21 February 1937 · page 2

ROB PEARCE looked suspiciously across at his cousin, John Trenton, who seemed anxious to avoid his eyes…

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Two Years' Gaol for Accountant

Truth · Sunday 21 February 1937 · page 26

"I FEEL in this case that the prisoner was a professional man holding a responsible portion. It was a betrayal of trust and not only that but…

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Must Keep His Temper Magistrate's Advice to Traffic Inspector Auckland

The Sun · Sunday 21 February 1937 · page 5

"If there is any person in the world who should keep his temper it is a traffic inspector." said the magistrate (Mr. Orr Walker) in dismissing…

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Gustav's Tennis Court Stockholm

The Sun · Sunday 21 February 1937 · page 19

King Gustav, world-renowned tennis player, has been taking the keenest personal interest in the construction of a new covered court here…

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Too Harsh Traffic Court Decisions

Truth · Sunday 21 February 1937 · page 23

MUCH pointed criticism of the policy adopted by Mr. Farringhm, S.M., in the Traffic Court, was made at a special meeting of the Council of…

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Murder in Flat Negro Porter To Go To Chair New York

Truth · Sunday 21 February 1937 · page 17

MAJOR GREEN, the negro porter, found guilty last week of the murder of Mrs. Frank Case, 25, who was found…

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Bondi Girl's Story of Alleged Assault Offered to Drive Her Home Jury Finds Young Man Not Guilty

Truth · Sunday 21 February 1937 · page 12

TO a crowded court at Darlinghurst last week, Miss Evelyn Beryl Calcutt, beautiful Bondi hairdresser, aged 25 years, told a story of a desperate struggle with Lawrence Anderson Wall, 23, clerk, who was before the…

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