an ambulatory pace

Well, it feels like the world is going at one hundred miles an hour and at the same time the most i can muster is a walking pace.

My Father is still unwell and I am spending more time thinking about him than i am on my studies.

this problem is compounded by the side effect of medications that are causing akasthesia....gggggggggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

blue sky outside, chaos inside

The turmoils ,trials and tribulations of life. A comment from my loving father as he lies in HDU at the hospital
as i approach the law subject , crime trauma and the law i feel that i am caught in the trauma of life.

Law school bench press

Well I am embarking on my endeavour to get fit and health. Ive come to realise the carting a heft civil litigation pile of text books up and down the hill at flinders uni has not been working and its time for drastic mearures, Ive now ventured into the gym at adelaide university twice and have the ambition of losing weight and gaining a six pack.

the aim is to visit three times a week.

meanwhile i have to maintain the study routine that i got into last semester but with a few more subjects this time.

I'm not good when it comes to politics, I have had some traumatics experiences with getting law reform through parliement so it is somewhat surprising to some that i have enrolled in a subject called "regulating plolitics"

time will telll whether this is a good thing or not.

Civil Litigation will continue in second semester and i have decided to have a go at studying international law too.

so the law book weight lifting is set to continue.

well, tomorrow i investigate joining the gym, ive coaxed a friend to join me.

it came, it went , and now I wait

Yes the exam is over and now i wait to find out if i passed. I'm now on university holidays which is the first time ive had a break from study in a few years as i usually am writing work over the holidays.

less than 24 hrs to go

well today i have slept in after a heavy revision load. I must remember to set the alarm so i wake up intime to catch the bus to the exam.

Today I am revising summary disposal and discontinuance of litigation, and even though i have done the reading before i feel like I am comming to it for the first time.

football, meatpies kangaroos and holden cars

Yes it's only two days until my civil litigation exam, and I am stretching to find ways to make the revision interesting.

as I ponder two quotes from the Managing Justice Report.

"Legal system reform is frequently chracterised as a policy choice between individualised, Roll's Royce justice, on the one hand affordable, robust, high volume 'Holden' justice on the other."

and a quote from the respected Hon. Justice Michael Kirby.

" A lawyer from Dickens' time, walking out of Bleak House into a modern Australian court on an ordinary day would see relatively few changes. Same wigs and robes. Same elevated Bench and sitting times. Very similar procedure of calling of evidence and presenting argument. Longer judgments: but still the same structure of facts, law and conclusion."

while with great respect to the Hon Justice Kirby I am of the optimistic view that the picture of Australian Civil Justice systems is not as " Bleak" as he purports in this statement and that the current day courts have made considerable headway towards getting their " House" in order.

the increasing use of expert witnesses, and court managed case flow management are steps in a direction towards a system that provides for the average driver of the "holden "


on the negative side are the number of unrepresented litigants and the cost and delay of the system.
what of access to justice?

does the national code of courts at state and federal level provide an even playing field that enables acess to fariness justice and the infamous "truth".

The Australian rules are changing and the players on the field need to adapt to meet the changing emphasis on dipspute resolution.

As David Bamford said at the start of the semester, these are exciting times of change in Civil Litigation

exams approaching

Well here it is three days before my end of semester exams and ive been in the library studying with the occassional spurt of surfing.

Ive managed to complete my assignments thus far and handed in my case file - hopefully i will get an NGP for it and not have to resubmit it.

Making slow progress on the perpetual studies- Ive been unwell and have to withdraw from Trusts and assignments. In the mean time here is an interseting blog

http://www.anonymouslawyer.blogspot.com/

student digs

Student accomodation is set for another year and it's focus time on designs and trademarks today.

the date is set

The date for my intellectual property law exam has been set. February the 1st in the morning. So until then I need to focus on studying ip law.

confidentiatlity

Today is the day I revise breach of confidence. my aim is to complete at least three hours of revision, go for a walk at some stage and get some order into the desk.

Examining the Season

Here it is summer and I am preparing for an intellectual propertly law exam. I am in the midst of third /fourth year law at Flinders University . This is the year to settle down and focus on law and my career aspirations