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Seven tips for writing a good case note

Writing case notes is a chore. I list seven rules I still count after 20 years reading and writing case notes and headnotes. Follow…

A mnemonic for the rulers of England

When do schoolchildren stop roting their rulers? Reciting Julio-Claudian emperors upon Nero’s suicide may have been unwise. Recalling…

G D Woods, A History of Criminal Law in New South Wales, vol 2

The New State 1901–1955, 2018, The Federation Press, 878pp

Dies Dominicus Non Est Juridicus

(or We can’t darling, not on a Sunday…)

In case the case method made me

A review of David Barker’s A History of Australian Legal Education

In case the case method made me

A review of David Barker’s A History of Australian Legal Education

nova constitutio futuris formam imponere debet, non praeteritis

(Or how to commit a legal crime)

Sir John Latham: Judicial reasoning in defence of the Commonwealth

The Fourth Annual JH Plunkett Lecture

RioTinto — A tale of two countries

RioTinto is a global resource group. If you want to find out about how it takes seriously its responsibilities in the US, you need go no…

Summer rain

When all is done for rain not come, this stage This cloud, this wind, the eager clips of foam, It twists to hang, a sweating snowflaked…

Old love

I take it then that you are half surprise And half in anger to see me here again But for all that more now than one that we Once shared and…

What if we’d sent Sir Hayden Starke?