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If you missed out on our Magna Carta Symposium last week we have PDF copies of all of the papers given on the day! A special thank you to our speakers for providing us with these copies, and again for making our event such a success!

The signing of Magna Carta in 1215 marked an important step in the movement away from arbitrary, monarchical rule towards responsible, constitutional government. By the end of the eighteenth century Englishmen had come to believe strongly in the principles of trial by jury and no taxation without representation-even if the latter took the form of virtual representation. These principles were carried to the colony of NSW and were at the heart of the movements to establish trial by jury and representative (or at least consultative) institutions, which commenced within two decades of the founding of the colony.

Rosemary Laing Rosemary Laing PPT

Nick Cowdery

John Hirst

David Clark

Andrew Tink