The Brilliant Boy (Unabridged) - Gideon Haigh

The Brilliant Boy: Doc Evatt and the Great Australian Dissent In a quiet Sydney street in 1937, a seven year-old immigrant boy drowned in a ditch that had filled with rain after being left unfenced by council workers. How the law should deal with the trauma of the family’s loss was one of the most complex and controversial cases to reach Australia’s High Court, where it seized the imagination of its youngest and cleverest member.