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Lover of law, legal history and first principles. Easily distracted. Following clever people and hoping for osmosis.
My 5th edition doesn’t have any artwork, which I’m pretty confident would have suited the (then) author just fine.
October 11, 2025 at 9:27 AM
My 5th edition doesn’t have any artwork, which I’m pretty confident would have suited the (then) author just fine.
Where’s Lord Denning when you need him?
July 5, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Where’s Lord Denning when you need him?
youtube.com/watch?v=_4vC...
An excellent lecture, but hard to agree.
An excellent lecture, but hard to agree.
Equitable Ownership: XXIV Old Buildings Lecture 2025
YouTube video by Cambridge Law Faculty
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March 5, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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An excellent lecture, but hard to agree.
An excellent lecture, but hard to agree.
“For several years around the turn of the (20th) century, adjoining seats were occupied by Justices Gray, Brown, and White, a color streak that would never be replicated “: Banner, The Most Powerful Court in the World: A History of the Supreme Court of the United States. An excellent read.
January 10, 2025 at 6:15 AM
“For several years around the turn of the (20th) century, adjoining seats were occupied by Justices Gray, Brown, and White, a color streak that would never be replicated “: Banner, The Most Powerful Court in the World: A History of the Supreme Court of the United States. An excellent read.
Rather late to this (20 years). Excellent.
December 14, 2024 at 4:30 AM
Rather late to this (20 years). Excellent.
BEECH-JONES J: If someone says to me, I will shoot you if you do not open the bank vault, and I open the bank vault, I am not a party to a conspiracy, am I?
December 9, 2024 at 1:40 AM
BEECH-JONES J: If someone says to me, I will shoot you if you do not open the bank vault, and I open the bank vault, I am not a party to a conspiracy, am I?
Interesting HCA case about whether a builder, who wants to keep industrial peace on a building site and accordingly succumbs to a union threat to terminate a subcontractor, enters an “arrangement or understanding” with the union in breach of competition laws. www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/view...
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v J Hutchinson Pty Ltd (ACN 009 778 330) & Anor; Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union & A...
Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII), a joint facility of UTS and UNSW Faculties of Law.
www.austlii.edu.au
December 9, 2024 at 1:39 AM
Interesting HCA case about whether a builder, who wants to keep industrial peace on a building site and accordingly succumbs to a union threat to terminate a subcontractor, enters an “arrangement or understanding” with the union in breach of competition laws. www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/view...
I spent years reading Pat Keane before any other HCA judgments. Now it’s Edelman.
November 19, 2024 at 8:55 PM
I spent years reading Pat Keane before any other HCA judgments. Now it’s Edelman.
Nice to see some familiar faces
November 19, 2024 at 8:55 PM
Nice to see some familiar faces