The foundations of civil justice in Australia

本项目旨在对澳大利亚民事司法制度的起源进行深入的历史描述。司法机构及其做法是澳大利亚殖民地建立民间社会的关键。这个项目将产生关于我们民事司法系统起源的新知识。该项目将追踪英格兰的法律改革派思想，它们在大英帝国的传播，以及这些思想对澳大利亚殖民地的法官和行政人员如何制定司法实践，以提供快速有效的民事司法途径的影响。除了学术写作，这个项目还将提供一个播客和多媒体网站，解释19世纪中期民事审判是如何运作的。

This project aims to provide an in-depth historical account of the origins of our civil justice system in Australia. Judicial institutions and their practices were key to the founding of civil society in the Australian colonies. This project will produce new knowledge about the origins of our civil justice system. The project will trace legal reformist ideas in England, their dissemination across Britain's Empire and the impact these had on how judges and administrators in the Australian colonies crafted their judicial practices to provide speedy and effective access to civil justice. As well as scholarly writing, this project will provide a podcast and multi-media website that explains how civil trials worked in the mid-nineteenth century.