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Lord Denning's Judgment in Miller v. Jackson (1977) Q.B. 966 - and in particular, this passage at 967: Needless to say - it is pretty clear how Denning decided :P

Yes. The work involved tasks such as: locating suitable "peer reviewers" for articles that were submitted to the journal for publication. Generally each student editor was given one or two articles for which they had to manage this process (under the supervision of the editorial board). Once...

You've been an outstanding contributor on this forum - full of rationality, impartiality and dry-wit - qualities that will no doubt serve you well in the legal profession. See you on the other side of a transaction sometime.

Do it! I greatly regret not having done it myself. If you have a job already lined up, then definitely request taking it up at a later time. The worst they can say is no.

I don't think this is a valid criticism. Your view assumes that people will know what working in a certain practice area will truly be like before they've worked in it (which I don't believe is knowledge that any law student who has not worked in a big law firm before can possess). For...

Stamina and the ability to apply oneself to often mundane tasks.

I think you mean BD. When they dropped the W it also stopped being a sweat shop :p

I find it interesting that in your reply you don't object to the content of my statement at all. Perhaps not quite as law smart as we were lead to believe.

Unfortunately, if his posts are a true reflection of his person, his smartness in law seems to have come at the cost of other commonly valued attributes of character.

On the very topic of protesting this event (and motivated in particular by these ridiculous laws), a friend of mine obtained a T-shirt which says in large letters: "The Pope Touched Me DownUnder" I nearly died from laughter the first time I saw it.

I admit to being confused by this post. Earlier in the thread you stated: "Really? I dont see engineers getting 80k a year at firms in capital cities...." This statement asserts that graduates at firms in capital cities in Australia could get 80k (as salary or as a package was not made...

One, Jones Day is not a top tier firm in Australia. (I was only referring to top tier firms in my post above). Not even close. They probably fall into the category of "boutique". Second, even if they pay a 70k salary, with 9% super, that is not going to be an 80k package. Unless there are...

Oh they get it all back don't worry.

I am confident that it is excluding super, which places the total package at 63k, an amount for which I am also confident would be close to the prevailing market average for graduates in the top tier. That is gross, before taxation. Generally speaking, there is a salary review at 6 months at...

There are no grads in any of the top tier firms in any of the capital cities in Australia who are paid 80k, including or excluding super. Inaccurate salary figures always get thrown around on the internet (I expect it is a simple manifestation of the "chinese whispers" phenonmenon), but if you...

I think you'll find, unfortunately for Maq, that David Spencer leaves at the end of this semester, so he won't be taking Dispute Resolution in 2008. :(

Funnily enough, a lot of the traits that people don't like in law students (read: the personality traits that cause a lot of the behaviour mentioned in this thread: competitiveness, insecurity, egoism and so forth) are exhibited to the same degree in practising lawyers. So there isn't really...

I expect what that refers to is the amount that Legal Aid will pay to private practitioners, when private practitioners are instructed or briefed by Legal Aid to do legal work on Legal Aid's behalf.

If you did start your own law firm, depending on the structure of the firm you started, you could be a partner. However, if I understand your question correctly, you might be confused between the title of "partner" as a sign of seniority, and the title of "partner" as a sign of the business...

I thought it necessary to correct a few errors. There is not any Senior Counsel in the professional that charge $6,000 an hour. That figure is completely inaccurate. I know of some very eminent Senior Counsel who we have briefed who charge $1,000 an hour, but you could count them on one hand...