Making a Commercial Law Soup with History, Politics, Etymology and the state of the Australian legal community
Yeah, I m thinking I m back. They re calling it 9/11, but good. I won t bore you with what i ve been up to in the last 10 years but the general highlights are: learning to rhyme on time, almost competing at the Sochi Winter Games, blockade running Cuba, mastering the correct mix of sugar and yeast in [ ]
The Supreme Court confirmed that the ACT's Legislation Act cures the mischief whereby someone could be considered 18 years old without actually having had their 18th birthday.
Feral pigeons can be public health pests. They can accumulate wherever there is food and shelter, and can take up residence almost anywhere, including around houses, tall city buildings or schools. As well as being a nuisance and causing extensive damage to property, feral pigeons can also pose a risk to human health. That statement [ ]
As a history tragic, I am somewhat fond of inspiring political and military speeches. For commercial lawyers, and I say this with an indescribably large level of self-awareness, courtrooms are battlefields and hence judgments are as close to an inspirational war-cry as most will ever hear. That being said, I was recounting the below judgment [ ]
It s not the greatest secret in the legal world that many jurisdictions are slow to repeal outdated legislation. Likely owing to the fact that the world is only 6000 years old, most of these crazy old laws are based on religion. It is illegal to disrupt a wedding or any other religious ceremony in South [ ]