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Accelerated learning comes to Court

September 18, 2008 – 6:00 pm

The mother of a very gifted child is suing the Queensland Government for failing to enrol her 9 year old daughter in Year 8 at a Queensland public school. There is no minimum age for enrollment in high school, but the Queensland Government cited fears over the girl’s social development as a reason for refusing [...]

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Lawyer blues

September 18, 2008 – 1:25 pm

I’ve written extensively on this topic before (here, here, here, here and here). It’s one of my bugbears – why are lawyers so prone to depression? Is it something about the kind of person who is attracted to studying law, or is it something which is created by the way in which the law functions? Or [...]

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Illjury prone

September 12, 2008 – 11:00 pm

A friend from uni dubbed me “illjury prone”: meaning illness and injury prone. I can’t really defend myself from this claim with any confidence. I do have a tendency to get into scrapes of one sort and another. Anyway, unfortunately, I’ve had a bit of trouble with my legs and hips over the last two [...]

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The day I decided criminal law was not for me…

September 4, 2008 – 6:41 am

When one is young and naive, criminal law seems really exciting. But ultimately, I ended up going down the private law path. This is what happened the day I decided criminal law was not for me. It all started when I had to stand in for a court clerk who was off sick on a day [...]

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Your call is important to us…

September 1, 2008 – 8:25 am

I thought that there was nothing I hated more than being put on hold for ages when trying to call a service provider. Now I have worked out that there is something I hate more. It’s a new phenomenon – a computer voice that asks you questions about what you want and tries to answer [...]

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Legal Eagle On Rage

August 24, 2008 – 8:47 am

I think my response and reading of Germaine Greer’s piece On Rage has emanated from my own feelings about rage. So I thought I might explore rage myself. Sometimes, rage can be a productive emotion. For example, when I lived in the UK, the school I attended initially told my mother that they thought I [...]

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Why me?

August 19, 2008 – 3:13 pm

Warning for the faint hearted – don’t read on if you are feeling squeamish. This tale is about how, unfortunately, I had to broach the subject of mortality and death with my daughter today. My parents are away at the moment, and as I live 10 minutes down the road, it’s natural that they should [...]

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A misleading veneer of sophistication

August 18, 2008 – 12:36 pm

I’m sure my daughter looks like a right little yuppie. She goes through the shops shouting, “I want a Babycino!” and people smile. But this is totally misleading. She explained to my mother the other day: “Mummy calls Babycinos marshmallows, but I call them Babycinos.” The general tone was that Mummy is an idiot. The [...]

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Pregnancy is not an illness II

August 14, 2008 – 3:16 pm

I’m going to have to go on maternity leave early. Today was my last day of teaching. That’s the thing; pregnancy is not an illness, but it does put a lot of strain on the body, and it’s undeniable that it affects one’s capacity to work effectively. I had to finish early last time too, [...]

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Label Mania

August 12, 2008 – 5:43 pm

I’m one of those people who has grand pretentions towards being orderly. One day. One day, I will invent a system which enables me to keep everything orderly and neat. However, I must confess that this has always been theory only. As I have confessed in an earlier post, I am a notorious stacker of [...]

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