ON THIS DAY in 1901, the NSW Oaths Act 1900 commenced.
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Crimes Act 1900 (NSW)
ON 31 OCTOBER 1900, the NSW Crimes Act 1900 commenced.
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/ca190082
Sydney, Australia
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Probate Administration Act 1898 (NSW)
ON 27 JULY 1898, the NSW Wills Probate and Administration Act 1898 was enacted. The Act was renamed the Probate Administration Act 1898 in 2008, with part of the Act becoming the Succession Act 2006.
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/paaa1898259
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/sa2006138
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Plessy v Ferguson 163 US 537 (1986)
ON THIS DAY in 1896, the US Supreme Court delivered Plessy v Ferguson 163 US 537 (1896).
The US Supreme Court applied the doctrine of “separate but equal” to uphold the constitutionality of state laws providing for racial segregation in the provision of public facilities.
The decision was overruled by the court in Brown v Board of Education on 17 May 1954.
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Oscar Wilde
ON 25 MAY 1895, Oscar Wilde was convicted of gross indecency and sentenced to two years hard labour.
http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?id=def1-425-18950520&div=t18950520-425#highlight
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Women granted the vote in South Australia
ON THIS DAY in 1895, the Constitution (Female Suffrage) Act 1895 (SA) granted South Australian women (except for aboriginal women) the right to vote. SA was only the second jurisdiction in the world to do so following New Zealand (1893).
http://foundingdocs.gov.au/item-sdid-44.html
1894 | Sale of Goods Act
ON THIS DAY in 1894, the Parliament of the United Kingdom enacted the Sale of Goods Act 1893. New South Wales enacted its own Act in 1923.
Browne v Dunn (1893) 6 R 67 (HL)
ON 28 NOVEMBER 1893, the House of Lords delivered Browne v Dunn (1893) 6 R 67 (HL).
A party who cross-examines a witness must, out of fairness, “put it” to the witness any contradiction they suggest arises from their evidence in order to give them an opportunity to explain the contradiction.
Per Lord Herschell at 70-71:
“…it seems to me to be absolutely essential to the proper conduct of a cause, where it is intended to suggest that a witness is not speaking the truth on a particular point, to direct his attention to the fact by some questions put in cross-examination showing that imputation is intended to be made, and not to take his evidence and pass it by as a matter altogether unchallenged and, then, when it is impossible for him to explain…to argue that he is a witness unworthy of credit.”
Sydney, Australia
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Electoral Act 1893 (NZ)
ON 19 SEPTEMBER 1893, New Zealand women were the first in the world to be granted the right to vote with the enactment of the Electoral Act 1893 (57 VICT 1893 No 18).
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R v Makin [1893] NSWLawRp 28
ON THIS DAY in 1893, the Supreme Court of NSW delivered R v Makin [1893] NSWLawRp 28; (1893) 14 LR (NSW) 1 (30 March 1893).
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/nsw/NSWLawRp/1893/28.html
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