Putting the ‘Queen’ Back into Queensland

Bleijie Jarrod , born 25 January 1982 and appointed Attorney-General on 3 April 2012, was 30 years 69 days old when sworn in. Sir Samuel Griffith, born 21 June 1845 and appointed Attorney-General (for the first time) on 3 August 1874, was 29 years 43 days old when sworn in.

See, inter alia, Trotter Andrew Hobbs Harry , ‘The Great Leap Backward: Criminal Law Reform with the Hon Jarrod Bleijie’ (2014) 36 Sydney Law Review 1; Trotter Andrew Hobbs Harry , ‘Under the Oak Tree: Institutional Reform in the Deep North’ (2014) 88:5 Australian Law Journal (forthcoming); Trotter Andrew Hobbs Harry , A historical perspective on juvenile justice reform in Queensland' (2014) 38 Criminal Law Journal 77; Hobbs Harry Trotter Andrew , ‘How Far Have We Really Come? Rolling Back Civil and Political Rights in Queensland’ (Working Paper, 6 February 2014).

Letter to Members, Liberty: The Official Newsletter of the Australian Monarchist League, January 2013, <http://www.monarchist.org.au/newsletterdetail.html?nlid=1358024555844961&yr=2013>.

See, eg, Queensland , Parliamentary Debates, Legislative Assembly, 4 June 2013, 1904 (Tim Nicholls, Treasurer).

These counsel are referred to in a Judges' Order of 1594: Dugdale Orig Jurid, 314. See Holdsworth William , A History of English Law (Methuen, 2nd ed 1937) Vol 6, 472–5. See also Lord Mackay of Clashfern, Halsbury's Laws of England (Lexis Nexis, 5th ed, 2009) Vol 66, 256 [1039].

Bennett JM , ‘Of silks and serjeants’ (1978) 52 Australian Law Journal 264, 264.

Pulling Alexander , The Order of the Coif (Legal Classics Library, Special Edition, 1989), 1.

Holdsworth William , ‘The rise of the order of King's Counsel and its effects on the legal profession’ (1920) 36 Law Quarterly Review 212, 212.

Bennett , above n 6, 267. It appears that only one Serjeant, William Sleigh, practised in Australia.

Holdsworth , above n 8, 215.

Ibid 218–219. In a clever turn of phrase Holdsworth styles them ‘rising politicians of the legal variety’, at 221.

Finn Jeremy , ‘Political or professional honours: Queen's Counsel in Australia, 1839–1875’ (1996) 2 AJLH 61, 70 (citations omitted).

Merritt Chris , ‘Government calls its new silks senior counsel, not Queen's counsel’, The Australian (online) 9 July 2010.

Lawyers and Conveyancers Amendment Act 2012 (NZ), amending the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006 (NZ).

Bleijie Jarrod , ‘QCs restored in Queensland’ (Media Statement, 7 June 2013).

Merritt Chris , ‘Senior moments over as George Brandis opts for QCs’, The Australian (Sydney), 11 March 2014; Berkovic Nicola , ‘Queens count in the scramble to stand out’, The Australian (Sydney), 7 February 2014.

Bleijie , above n 15.

Pelly Michael , ‘States divide over restoration of “Queen's Counsel” title’, The Australian (online) 14 June 2013.

Pelly Michael , ‘Silks all aflutter at the chance of royal U-turn’, The Australian (online), 20 September 2013.

Bennett , above n 6, 273.

Union with Scotland Act 1706 6 Anne c 11; Union with England Act 1707 Anne c 7.

12 & 13 Will 3 c 2.

1 William Sess Mary 2 c 2.

Union with Scotland Act 1706 6 Anne c 11, Art 2; Union with England Act 1707 Anne c 7, Art 2.

Berns Sandra , ‘Women in English legal history: Subject (almost), object (irrevocably), person (not quite)’ (1993) 12 University of Tasmania Law Review 26, 35. Lyon Ann , ‘The place of women in European Royal Succession in the Middle Ages’ (2006) 27 Liverpool Law Review 361.

See, eg, the CEDAW, opened for signature 1 March 1980, 1249 UNTS 13 (entered into force 3 September 1981); Sex Discrimination Act 1984 (Cth).

UK, Parliamentary Debates, House of Commons, 22 January 2013, vol 557, col 266 (Mark Durkan).

Royal Marriages Act 1772 (UK) 12 Geo 3 c 11, s 2.

Succession to the Crown Act 2013 (UK) c 21. For a detailed analysis, see Parpworth Neil , The Succession to the Crown Act 2013' (2013) 76 Modern Law Review 1070.

22 & 23 Geo. 5 c 4, Preamble. Twomey Anne , ‘Changing the rules of succession to the throne’ (Sydney Law School, Legal Studies Research Paper No 11/71, October 2011), 25.

In 1936 the Federal government accepted legal advice that this is the case. See Twomey , above n 30, 17.

This is acknowledged by Queensland's Bill: See Succession to the Crown Bill 2013, Explanatory Notes, 2.

Hurst Daniel , ‘Right royal split over how to change succession rules’, Brisbane Times (online), 7 December 2012.

Remeikis Amy , ‘Queen's land goes it alone’, Brisbane Times (online), 14 February 2013.

Remeikis Amy , ‘Queensland succession laws passed’, Brisbane Times (online), 2 May 2013.

Succession to the Crown Act 2013 (Qld), s 14(1).

Succession to the Crown (Request) Act 2013 (NSW).

Succession to the Crown (Request) Act 2013 (Tas).

Succession to the Crown (Request) Act 2013 (Vic).

Queensland , Parliamentary Debates, Legislative Assembly, 30 November 2011, 3977 (Jarrod Bleijie).

Towell Noel Ireland Judith , ‘Mystery Queen portrait hung in Tony Abbott's HQ’, Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney) 30 September 2013.

Wilson Lauren , ‘Abbott makes waves with republicans’, The Australian (Sydney), 7 October 2013.

Abbott Tony , ‘Monarchy is the tie that binds us together’, The Age (Melbourne), 29 November 2006.

Scott Steven , ‘Prime Minister Tony Abbott announces surprise return of British honours system’, The Australian (Sydney), 26 March 2014.

‘Barnett: Knighthoods not welcomed in WA’, WAToday (online), 26 March 2014.

Cox Lisa , ‘Tony Abbott bypassed colleagues on dames and knights move as Labor says it's a distraction from bad headlines’, SMH(online), 26 March 2014.

See, eg, Edelman Murray , Constructing the Political Spectacle (University of Chicago Press, 1988).

Burnier DeLysa , ‘Constructing political reality’ (1994) 47(1) Political Research Quarterly 239, 243.