Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots The Ela Beach Discussion Group did not let me get away with my simple statement that Murray Groves’ evidence was of inestimable value. There were 14 members present and several said,...
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots I could give any number of cases which proved how deeply Kiaps had taken to heart Monte’s lectures about the difference in their exercise of the various functions which they...
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots Because of the poor food generally available, people used to pool their resources when something special was on. The arrival, in March 1954, of the first new judge of the Supreme...
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots On my first circuit (January-May 1952) I found copies of this report at many Government Stations because the judges wanted it used as a precedent where cases arose in areas the...
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots Tessa Jones’ wonderful sharing of her mother’s memories (Una Voce No. 4 of 2000), particularly those of Beatrice Grimshaw wearing long black boots when she sat at table for morning tea,...
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots BSeveral members have remarked on my comment, in Snapshot No. 22, that Mert Brightwell obtained ‘a well-deserved acquittal’ in the case against Meka-Ori and they have asked whether there were other...
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots It is important that we understand that ‘defending’ someone on a criminal charge means ‘doing, for him, what he cannot do himself because he does not have your specialist knowledge’. There...
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots The Queen against Atemba was one of two cases which caused confusion because, in the Committal Hearing, they were prosecuted by the European Police, giving the impression to the Magistrate, and...
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots This case was about a government patrol being attacked. Ikuar was only charged with ‘unlawful wounding’ but he could easily have killed the policeman he speared and J.K. McCarthy (who...
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots I forget when I made this precis of Judge Gore’s classic paper (referred to in No. 28 above) but it was circulated several times. I also re-issued the full text on...
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots It is because of the tendency for false allegations to supplant truth, that I am writing these Snapshots and, in a curious way, an incident on tonight’s SBS typifies what I...
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots The summaries of Sean Dorney’s excellent Blamey Oration and of the SMH report on the Papua New Guinea Defence Force, which were in the last Una Voce, refer to a period...
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots There were many other Father Rays and Don Barretts doing wonderful jobs and, as I have said, I will illustrate what I mean by a couple of quotes from my Letter...
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots BMedical orderlies were trained in many different centres and, since the anti-yaws campaign had caused everyone to believe in the wondrous effectiveness of ‘a shoot’, an essential part of that training...
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots The September issue contained the first of what I intended to be three sets of Snapshots about the Telefomin trials but, because of something unforseen (which I will discuss in the...
