Collection of legal briefs to and opinions from counsel for the Opticians Registration Board of Victoria

Description Of Item: Collection of legal briefs to and opinions of counsel for the Opticians Registration Board of Victoria that are to do with various matters including canvassing door-to-door by optometrists, advertising, the suspension of an optometrist and the power of the Board to question how Government makes its decisions on appointments to the Board. Also included are a statement of evidence given by a person who was subject to canvassing for an optometrist and a judgement of Judge Richardson dismissing the appeal of a registered optometrist, Mr Summers, who was aggrieved by the Boards decision to suspend him for one month because of canvassing. The various papers date from the early years of the Registration Board from 1937 to 1939, with one dated 1942 and another dated 1955.