posted by devonwhittle on Oct 30, 2008
Reading
Charterblog can really lower your faith in the legislature and judiciary, but does give rise to some great quotes:
Devine and Legg will no doubt see the non-application of the Charter as another instance of the conspiracy of Freemasons and the like out to protect the supposed pedophiles of Ordo Templi Orientis. Alas, as readers of this blog well know, the real explanation is much more mundane and much more disturbing: Victorian judges simply cannot read.Popularity: 4% [?]
posted by devonwhittle on Oct 4, 2008
Gans has got his take on the recent Charter Moot
on his blog. My team came runners up in the end, but I thought we did a great job. I’ve got a comment over there on what he said, but also should add that as a team we did some very serious legal thinking in a very short period of time, it was quite fun (in a stressful law student sort of way). Presenting our crazy ‘novel argument’ in the semi-finals was great fun, and defending polygamy in the grand final was even better – if you want to know about loopholes over polygamous marriage just let me know.
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posted by devonwhittle on Sep 29, 2008
Gans takes us through a wild ride of Charter interpretation in VCAT over the
BAE Systems Case, which dealt with the USA’s discriminatory national security hiring policy. So we’ve got a badly drafted Charter, being applied in a terrible manner. What good can come of this? I particularly like how VEOHRC submission to VCAT supported BAE’s discrimination by reading the Charter wrong.
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posted by devonwhittle on Sep 18, 2008
Very funny post from Gans on “common law driver’s licences” and the freedom of movement under the Charter.
UPMART, an “association for human rights and much, much more” thinks they shouldn’t need to get a driver’s licence to be allowed to drive their care. Fantastic.
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posted by devonwhittle on Jun 26, 2008
Why do universities
use letters or HDs or H1s? H1, H2A, H2B, H3, P, F – it all just means one more step to work out my percentage points. It’d be nice to know how average each mark is though. Did my P for criminal law mean I did badly? Or was that semester extra-hard?
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