Australia: Piety, Fact And The Oral Account In Native Title Claims

Australia: Piety, Fact And The Oral Account In Native Title Claims Kingsley Palmer, 2011   In native title claims, accounts provided by claimants have played a key role in determining outcomes. Claimants provide the principal data upon which an expert bases his or her view, set out in an expert or connection report. Typically, claimant affidavits are filed in support of a claim and, if the matter goes to trial, claimant testimony has usually been considered by the courts to be the principal...

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