The Making of The Victorian Reports with Peter Willis SC

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Peter Willis SC is a Victorian Barrister, and currently The Council's appointed editor for the Victorian Reports. The Victorian Reports contain significant cases from the Supreme Court in its first decisions and appeal decisions, available at victorianreports.com.au. Some 70-75 cases are selected for inclusion annually on the criteria that they may introduce a new principle or rule of law, contain information relevant to an important practice or procedure, or are otherwise instructive or helpful. The Victorian Reports digital portal has been developed by the team at JADE for Little William Bourke, the official publisher of the Victorian Reports, and only the second publisher appointed by the Council of Law Reporting of Victoria in the history of the Reports.

In this episode we discuss:

• The history of the Victorian Reports.
• Why the Reports are important.
• How the cases are selected.
• What the process is once a case is selected.
• What does Peter's role as Editor of the Victorian Reports involve.
• Peter's favourite historical case - Spoiler alert: Toy v Musgrove (1888) 14 VLR 349 (Higinbotham CJ, Kerferd, Williams, Holroyd, A’Beckett, Wrenfordsley JJ). [Constitutional law]. Read it on the Victorian Reports today: https://victorianreports.com.au/judgment/14-VLR-349

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