Dr Manhattan's Edit: We can always do advocacy better. And I do love a well-placed semi-colon. I'm going to reflect on what's written below, and try to fashion a post (or possibly something bigger) on this subject for 2010.The thing which I have found striking here is that the quotes that Elucubrator relies on to …
Month: March 2009
Keeping up-to-date
The constant battle for most of us is keeping up-to-date with new legislation and new cases.I know of no simple way to monitor state legislation other than to regularly visit the various legislative websites. (Dr Manhattan Edit: "What about subscribing to us, Elucubrator? What could be easier than that?") You can subscribe to Commonwealth legislative …
Researching United States law
Some judgments — most notably Michael Kirby's decisions in the High Court — refer to United States judgments in their reasons.I confess I have no familiarity with the US legal system other than a vague understanding they have a Federal system similar to ours. (Here's an interesting aside: did you know that aside from Australia, …
Do you ever need English judgments?
I have a contested hearing in a bit over a week, where one issue is the return of a subpoena seeking all complaints or findings made against one of my key witnesses.Happily for me, I wrote some commentary on precisely this topic in Chapter 12 on subpoenas.A number of the cases I want are English …
House of Lords to become a retirement home?
The Poms do things a little differently to us. (No offence JS.)Their upper house of Parliament also doubles as the ultimate appeals court in the land.But only the twelve Law Lords perform the judicial business of the Lords.All that is about to change.The date for this change is now set. Come October 2009, the Supreme …
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