February 21, 2013 – 3:39 pm
I frequently get comments from female working friends with kids who say, “I don’t know how you combine full-time work, two young kids and blogging! What’s your secret?” It’s a juggle which involves many late nights and a sympathetic, helpful husband. I have often wondered how many balls I can simultaneously juggle, as I’m one [...]
January 26, 2013 – 8:26 pm
I’m always interested in what people who are not totally devoted to a particular area of law think about certain cases. At the moment I’m working on the issue of proprietary remedies over bribes taken in breach of fiduciary duty. I’m going to put two scenarios to you (derived from the cases) and ask you [...]
January 21, 2013 – 4:46 am
Sorry I haven’t been about very much. Short story: I am in Oxford and I do not presently have the resources to access anything except the visitor wireless network which generally bans (a) my work e-mail and (b) this site as deeply suspicious. Don’t ask. Hopefully to be rectified soon. But it is a red [...]
December 13, 2012 – 7:01 pm
one thing I don’t need is any more apologies i got sorry greetin me at my front door you can keep yrs i don’t know what to do wit em they don’t open doors or bring the sun back they don’t make me happy or get a mornin paper didn’t nobody stop usin my tears [...]
Posted in Australia, Free Speech, Law, Media, Personal liberty, Politics, Public Policy, Racism, Society
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Tagged Alan Jones, apologies, apology, Cronulla riots, keysar trad, mongrels, Racism, remedies, Sydney, vermin
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December 8, 2012 – 6:06 am
I love cases. I simply love cases. I love the drama of them, and I love to go hunting for extra facts about the case. The case of Lumley v Wagner (1852) 1 De GM & G 604; 42 ER 687 involved Johanna Wagner, a famous German singer (and the niece of Richard Wagner). She [...]
Posted in History, Law, Music, Personal liberty, Saturday chit-chat, Tort
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Tagged Benjamin Lumley, contract, Frederick Gye, inducing breach of contract, Johanna Wagner, lumley v gye, lumley v wagner
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December 1, 2012 – 9:02 am
Today I came across an interesting post, via Letters of Note, which details a letter which a former slave, Jourdon Anderson, wrote to his former master, Colonel P.H. Anderson of Big Spring, Tennessee. Colonel Anderson had written to Jourdon Anderson, requesting him to come back to work on his farm. According to sources of the [...]
November 25, 2012 – 10:15 am
In May this year, I wrote a post about the case of Rose Ashton-Weir, who, with her mother, Elizabeth Weir, was suing Geelong Grammar because she alleged it did not support her to a sufficient degree to allow her to get into Law at Sydney University. Judgment has been handed down (Weir v Geelong Grammar [...]
Posted in Academia, Children, Education, Law, Motherhood, Parenthood, Society
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Tagged breach of contract, compensatory damages, Education, Geelong Grammar, gifted, Law School, misleading and deceptive conduct, negligence, Rose Ashton-Weir
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October 24, 2012 – 7:33 am
I was very interested to read that some scientists had been found guilty of manslaughter in relation to advice given about an earthquake: Six Italian scientists and a government official have been found guilty of multiple manslaughter for underestimating the risks of a killer earthquake in L’Aquila in 2009. They were sentenced to six years [...]
Posted in Economics, Environment, Law, Public Policy, Science, Society
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Tagged earthquake, expert predictions, experts, falsifiability, hypotheses, Italy, L'Aquila, manslaughter, philip tetlock, scientists, tim harford
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October 22, 2012 – 6:33 pm
Every now and then, I’m sitting in an examination room at my old English school. There’s been some problem with my A-Level exams, and they’ve asked me to re-sit the History exam some 20 years later to prove it was really me who took the original exam. I am trying my best to write essays [...]
October 10, 2012 – 3:18 pm
Radio personality Alan Jones has been in trouble again, this time because he made some insensitive comments about the recent death of the father of Prime Minister Julia Gillard at the Sydney University’s Liberal Club President’s Dinner. Jones suggested Gillard’s father ‘died of shame’ as a result of the lies his daughter had told the [...]
Posted in Australia, Free Speech, Immigration, Media, Politics, Society, The Left, The Right
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Tagged Alan Jones, Australian Labor Party, Australian Liberal Party, Australian politics, chaff bags, Cronulla riots, Feminism, Julia Gillard, misogyny, Peter Slipper, sexism, The Left, The Right, Tony Abbott
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