The Great Onyx Cave Cases - A Micro-History

Review of Legal History

“…Legal archaeology has proven popular with studies being done across a range of jurisdictions (see e.g. Adams, 2012; Threedy, 2000; Tucker et al, 2012; Ziff, 2013), 6 but it is not without critics who question the utility of focusing on leading cases (Phillips, 2013). The popularity of the approach may be due to the ways in which the research question is easily defined and the new perspectives on leading cases which result.…”