Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0208350

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0208350

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

HISTORICAL EXPERTS AND INDIGENOUS LITIGANTS: the role of Historical Expert Evidence in Federal Court Cases. Since Mabo, historians are increasingly being called as expert witnesses in cases involving indigenous litigants. Historians perceive serious difficulties in the Court's treatment of qualitative, historical material, resulting in a possible denial of access to justice. The project investigates this treatment, pursuing issues such as expert evidence generally, the specific relationship between Law and History, and the particularity of cases involving indigenous claims. The investigation asks whether historians as expert witnesses can retain both their historical professionalism and adapt to the requirements of the courts, or whether the courts? rules of evidence themselves require adaptation.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 15-01-2002

End Date: 31-12-2003

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $188,240.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Historical Studies | History: Australian | Indigenous Law | Evidence And Procedure

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Understanding legal processes | Ownership of the land |

Other Keywords

Evidence And Procedure | Historical Studies | History: Australian | Indigenous Law | Ownership of the land | Understanding Australia'S Past | Understanding legal processes

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