John Jefferson Bray: A Vigilant Life

by John Emerson

In March 1967, South Australian Premier Don Dunstan appointed his State's most outstanding barrister as Chief Justice: John Jefferson Bray. In public, Bray's appointment brought barely a ripple, but in the murky urban waters of Adelaide's corridors of power, this decision unleashed waves of outrage and bitter revenge seeking. After his successful defense of Rupert Murdoch's News in 1960 in a seditious libel case, John Jefferson Bray made a powerful...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 192223561X
• ISBN13: 9781922235619
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Monash University Publishing
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.