Weekly Club Meeting 1st September 2021

Guest Speaker: Gideon Haigh, Journalist, writer

Topic: The Brilliant Boy…Doc Evatt and the Great Australian Dissent

Gideon Haigh, author, The Briliant Boy: Doc Evatt and the Great Australian Dissent

How should the law deal with trauma? A close look at Chester v the Council of the Municipality of Waverley (1939), a landmark in the history of the High Court, and a new perspective on a brilliant, flawed, enigmatic Australian.

The book is available through Readings Online click here