FORMS OF PLEADINGS, NOTEBOOK OF COMPILED PRECEDENTS BY FREDERICK RUDOLPH BARLEE

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1891 - 1892

Overview

Notes on precedents compiled by F.R. Barlee. Handwritten in exercise book. Handwritten with newspaper articles affixed to latter pages.

Historical information

Frederick Rudolph Barlee (c 1859– 1941), was born in Melbourne. After studying a Master of Arts degree at the University of Sydney, Barlee was admitted to the Bar of New South Wales in 1887. He moved to Perth in 1896, and was admitted to the WA Bar in 1897. He was Associate to Mr Justice Stone before being appointed Magistrate at Northam, and became Supreme Court Librarian in 1905, a position he held until his death.

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Registration number

cwa-org-46-1976.17

Width

200 mm

Height or length

250 mm

Inscriptions and markings

Handwritten inscription on front pastedown "Precedents Com. Law Procedure Act, Sydney N.S.W 1891-2"

Contextual information

Barlee’s book of precedents, his numerous publications, including his Case Law Verses, and contributions to journals such as The Magistrate, serve as a memorial to a man who played a notable part in legal education in Western Australia.

Fred Barlee was the nephew of Frederick Palgrave Barlee, who came to Western Australia in 1855 on being appointed Colonial Secretary by incoming governor Arthur Edward Kennedy. Fred was born in Melbourne in 1859 but moved to Sydney. He graduated from Sydney University with an MA and was admitted as a barrister in New South Wales in 1887. He came to Perth in 1896 and was admitted to practice in WA the following year, The book of pleadings, marked ‘Sydney NSW 1891-2’, dates from his years in New South Wales, although no details of his practice are known. However, he must have been a figure of some importance: as a press cutting pasted into the book records, in 1893 he chaired a meeting of the Articled Clerks Association which discussed the recently-enacted Married Women’s Property Act 1893 (NSW).
He became associate to Mr Justice Stone, and was then made a magistrate, based in Northam. In 1905 he was appointed Supreme Court Librarian, a position he held until his death in 1941 at the age of 82.
He was involved in the writing and publication of many books relating to legal education such as Case Law Verses.

Place made

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Year

1891 - 1892

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Tuesday, 26 August, 2025

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