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It almost sounds like a reply and antithesis of our mate's "job application" doesn't it?

Hahah... someone sounds like they've been taking hits from the love pipe today...

The solutions are: (in my order of preference) 1. Enroll in some dodge course so you can collect centrelink and get drunk for 6 months. 2. Go overseas for 6 months. 3. Start PLT mid-way through the year (not sure where you wanted to do it but College of Law have heaps of start dates -...

Crennan (from fed court, earlier of vic bar) is McHugh's replacement. Has history in legal aid and human rights, as well as IP. (see other thread) And I wouldn't say McHugh was black-letter law in any court, let alone the current one. I'd say he's probably the most centralist with kirby on...

Hehe... having never seen a "transcript" of a judge's speech on the net after having actually seen it I didn't realise how much they departed from it. Makes sense though - what he said was much more light-hearted and he played to his audience well. He cracked everyone up when he went...

Disclaimer: This is my niche, so a bit of a nerd warning about what is to follow. I know it's been out for a few days now, but I was kinda distracted on friday and monday, so: Stevens v Sony [2005] HCA 58 WOOOT! A win (kinda) against the man for once. A brief run down for those...

Did you discuss what kind of law student it makes you if you sit around speaking about these things in social settings? :P What kind of law student does it make you if you not only study law and work in the law, but post on a law-related website? *hangs head in shame* Ah well... at least...

Well well. V interesting competition... ending in UTS defending their crown. UNSW cam back from dropping the first round (in questionable circumstances) to Edith Cowan and then the second round to Macquarie to scrape into the semis by 1/2 a round point and ended up finishing second. The...

Oh god. This thread has taken a turn for the worst. Kill it. Kill it now before it spreads.

A meat up? I don't even want to know what that entails.

I shall see you this evening then!

What? You go through 3+ years of your law degree before learning about our primary law? Gese... that seems a bit silly. It's not as though it's that conceptually difficult at an under-grad level that you need that long to be prepared for the material.

Constitutional law is fun! [yes, I'm a sick, sick man] There is a national torts moot - the Shine Roach McGowan. which is run in the middle of the year. Other than that the ALSA general mooting comp has questions on a broad range of areas. Crim moots are hard to do because the appeals...

Yeah, NZ is no-fault compensation. Like workcover, but over your whole life. I haven't had any first hand experience in NZ, but half the time "no-fault" compensation in workcover ends up just as much as a shitfight as a common law claim anyway. Basically the difference is between...

They the UNSW team? We actually faced UNSW last year in the general rounds and I rekon they were the best team we mooted against. Somehow they ended up finishing pretty low down though which shows some of it can be a bit arbitrary. Hasn't the Lexisnexis one already happened? The dates say...

Well... after the organisers only identifying teams by numbers and deciding to give us our opponent's submissions only on the night before, (20 pages a-piece - we're going to have a fun Thursday night), I've finally managed to work out who we're up against in the general rounds this weekend...

Extract from here: An address by former chief justice of the High Court, Sir Anthony Mason to the conference dinner which marked the Centenary of the Australian High Court. [EDIT: Having lived in far north Qld for 8 years, this is especially humorous to me.] Unashamedly stolen from...

Bah... where was the special leave point in this case? Update: Just read the transcript... If you're bored... skim the transcript for gems like this from McHugh the curmudgeon tearing up a QC and an SC:

Wow... don't all rush in at once... I think I'm going to do the take-home exam anyway. So over this subject. Actually, so over this degree. (42.5 days left!)

Help. I need ideas for my employment law final. I actually hate employment law, but took it because I do a heap of it at work and the 2 minor assignments (20% each) were pretty much stuff I do on a daily basis. BUT, now I have to write a 2500 word essay. We have the option of...