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 [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Academia, 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 13, 2012 – 9:30 am
One of the less pleasant sights of Melbourne is sneakers tied together and hanging from overhead wires. These are trophies of some kid being jumped on, his or her sneakers removed and tossed where they cannot get them back. The hanging trophies of persecution can remain for weeks or even months, an enduring reminder of [...]
September 13, 2012 – 10:40 pm
Alistair Campbell and Peter Capaldi were left red-faced after their sponsored swear-athon was accidentally broadcast into a creche. Tony Blair’s former spin doctor was at City trader BGC’s charity day with actor Capaldi who plays foul-mouthed communications director Malcom Tucker in The Thick of It. The pair initially got involved on the trading floor to [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Britain, Fark!, Funnies, Politics
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Tagged alistair campbell, BGC partners, childcare, downing street, malcolm tucker, peter capaldi, swearing, the thick of it
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The Sydney Morning Herald reports that a landmark case is being brought in New England, where a landowner is being charged with manslaughter after a toddler from a neighbouring house wandered into his yard, got through the unmaintained fence and drowned. Mr Cameron [the pool owner] was inside his Armidale home watching television one afternoon [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Law, Motherhood, Parenthood, Tort
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Tagged Children, criminal law, criminal negligence, deterrence, drowning, manslaughter, negligence, pool fence, precedent, swimming pool, tort
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Maybe it’s just me, but I find the piece excerpted below (in HuffPo) rather disturbing, along with the revelations that the same thing is going on in Australian schools. It is less common in Britain; parents are more likely to tell the school to f*ck off, and in any case the school day is an [...]
One of the hard things about teaching is that there is only so much you can do. You can try to lead students to information, but in the end, it’s up to them how much of that information they choose to take in, and final responsibility for performance in exams, tests or essays rests with [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Academia, Education, Law, Parenthood, Public Policy, Society
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Tagged Education, fortune cookies, Geelong Grammar, Law, law degree, Rose Ashton-Weir, sense of entitlement, study, Sydney University, teaching, tertiary degrees, VCAT
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A description of what confronted a Commonwealth officer in the Northern Territory during the Pacific War (1941-5), when thousands of service personnel passed through the Northern Territory: … once you introduced a European or Asian father any child of that liaison had any rights as an Aboriginal extinguished at birth. They were not classed as [...]
By Lorenzo
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Also posted in Australia, Economics, History, Society, Welfare
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Tagged Australian Aborigines, crime, culture, hunter-gatherer, indigenous issues, noel pearson, policy, Stolen generations
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The title of this post reveals the Latin quip (by the Roman satirist Juvenal, in his 10th Satire, 77-81) from which Suzanne Collins derived the name of her fictional dystopian country in The Hunger Games (Legal Eagle’s review and commentary is here). It means ‘bread and circuses’ and is part of a lengthy whinge where Juvenal [...]
By skepticlawyer
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Also posted in Law, Literature, Popular culture, science fiction, Welfare
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Tagged Ancient Rome, Juvenal, Marcus Aurelius, Martial, panem, panem et circenses, steven pinker, Suzanne Collins, The Better Angels of Our Nature, The Hunger Games
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What would Joseph Kony do If he were here right now? He’d burn a blond gay muppet or two, That’s what Joseph Kony’d do. Last week, it emerged that the M25 — for those not in the know, the ‘London Orbital’ and Britain’s biggest carpark — was turning into a tourist attraction, presumably by means of [...]
By skepticlawyer
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Also posted in Britain, Fark!, Funnies, Internet, Marriage, Popular culture, Public Policy, Racism, Religion, Sexuality, Skeptics
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Tagged #Kony2012., Aaron Stewart-Ahn, charity, Charlie Brooker, gay rights, Glee, homophobia, Invisible Children, Jason Russell, jon stewart, Joseph Kony, Justin Beiber, Matt Stone, Médecins Sans Frontières, Nietzsche, Patrick Barkham, ressentiment, Russell Blackford, Sokal Hoax, South Park, Teju Cole, Tracey Rowland, Trey Parker, Uganda, Zoolander
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February 1, 2012 – 12:12 pm
In The Age today there’s an article about a couple with a severely disabled child suing an IVF practitioner in negligence: Debbie and Lawrence Waller love their 11-year-old son, Keeden, but they believe he should never have been born. Just days after Mrs Waller gave birth in August 2000 following IVF treatment, Keeden suffered a [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Law, Motherhood, Parenthood, Pregnancy, Tort, Welfare
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Tagged Cattanach v Melchior, disability, Harriton v Stephens, High Court of Australia, Keeden Waller, negligence, public policy, tort, Waller v James, welfare, welfare state, wrongful birth, wrongful life
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