Law of the Land was an Australian television

Television

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 drama

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 series that screened on the Nine Network

Nine Network

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. The series was set in the fictional country town of Merringanee and centered on the unique way that locals dealt with and enforced the law.

The series was created by Ro Hume and Sue Masters and produced by Bruce Best, Matt Carroll

Matt Carroll (producer)

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, Richard Clendinnen and Terrie Vincent.

Cast

• Lisa Hensley - Kate Chalmers
• David Roberts - Peter Lawrence
• Wyn Roberts - Hamilton Chalmers
• Richard Moir
  Richard Moir
  -Biography:In 1990, Moir was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease, the degenerative effects of which gradually brought his acting career to a premature end...
  
   - Sergeant Clive O'Connor
• David Walters - Sean O'Connor
• Angelo D'Angelo - Sergeant Marc Rosetti
• Debbie Byrne - Jean Jardine
• Tamblyn Lord - David Jardine
• Lindy Wallis - Trish Miles
• Shane Connor
  Shane Connor
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   - Harry Miles
• Radha Mitchell
  Radha Mitchell
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   - Alicia Miles
• Abbie Holmes - Audrey O'Connor
• Peter O'Brien - Andy Cochrane
• Frances O'Connor
  Frances O'Connor
  -Background:O'Connor was born in Wantage, Oxfordshire, England to a pianist mother and nuclear physicist father. When O'Connor was two, her family moved back to Perth, Western Australia. O'Connor was raised a Roman Catholic and attended the Mercedes College in Perth...
  
   - Marissa Green
• Alexandra Fowler - Jacqui Rushcutter
• Fiona Spence
  Fiona Spence
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   - Magistrate Maggie Mulcahy
• Rebecca Frith
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   - Alex Lentini
• Tessa Humphries
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   - Hannah Scott
• Mike Bishop - Ray Richmond
• Michael O'Neill - Michael Delaney
• Sapidah Kian - Shirin Rasidi
• Bruce Hughes - Nick Rogers
• Karmen Raspovic - Heather Coleman

See also

• Lex loci
  Lex loci
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  - the Legal Latin phrase for conflicts of law
• List of Australian television series