Leighton B Watts
Am having a country phase and here is a great Australian singer’s song about Australia, Wide Brown Land Wide Brown Land by Leighton B Watts
DetailsChildren in Law - The web site of Jacqui Gilliatt
Am having a country phase and here is a great Australian singer’s song about Australia, Wide Brown Land Wide Brown Land by Leighton B Watts
DetailsFamily Law Judge to Mother: Do you understand that you have sworn to tell the truth? Mother: I do. Judge: Do you understand what will happen if you are not truthful? Mother: Sure. I get everything I want.
DetailsA man and his wife were in the throes of breaking up and arguing about the divorce settlement. In a fit of pique the man thew trifle at his wife. That’s how she ended up with custardy.
DetailsThe moral dilemma you find yourself in when you know you are going to be late for an important appointment and that it is really your fault because you left the house just a bit too late to catch the train on time but it becomes apparent along the way that you would have been…
DetailsThe moment of pure joy when you are cross-examining someone and it couldn’t be going better if you scripted the answers yourself – every question hits home & you and the witness are dancing in a conversation – you, the witness and anyone listening are no longer conscious that it is a question & answer…
DetailsAnother moment of pure joy when you are running a case which all around you thinks is unwinnable and you get the first confirmation in the evidence that you are going to be able to knock down the other side’s deck of cards. It is even better if the other side cannot see the significance…
DetailsThanks to those who have suggested words for my recent missing words thing on obnoxious opponents and think crowisfaction pretty grand. But there is a small variation. Opponent who turns up thinking that because Judge took understandable dim view of your client’s behaviour in the past s/he willl take same dim view even though life…
DetailsA particularly unprofessional pleasure you get at winning a case against a singularly obnoxious and difficult opponent who comes in for heavy criticism for the judge for the precise same things that you have found so obnoxious in the seemingly endless months you have been dealing with them before the case gets to a final…
DetailsThe more than slight irritation & professional outrage you feel when the tribunal you are in front of makes a decision which is probably the right decision but makes it for all the wrong reasons and in doing so makes no reference to your skilful submissions which you spent several hours preparing and clearly might…
DetailsThat moment of panic when you realise you have left your mobile phone at home but if you turn back to fetch it you will miss your train and arrive late for an important appointment so you can’t really do that and then you start running through whether you might be able to come back…
DetailsThat slight embarassment when someone tells you something secret / confidential assuming you are in the know (eg impending judicial appointment) and you have to bluff that you knew all about it and have done for ages because you should have done – after all s/he is your closest friend even though you have not…
DetailsDenny Crane’s handsome sidekick Alan Shore, played by James Spader. “Let me tell me two things about myself. I too am a lawyer, I can be painfully vindictive, and I do not play fair”. My role model.
DetailsAnd another hero: Gill Grissom“There’s three things I got a real problem with: Guys that hit their wives, sexual assault on children and the scum that deal death to kids.” The CSI website has its own wiki.
DetailsMy current legal hero, Denny Crane whose motto is :”pull a rabbit out of your hat. That’s the secret both to trial law and life.” I could have done with that rabbit today. Mr Blog and I are working our way through the first series on dvd & he is back from his travels tonight…
DetailsA reasonable man can get out of most any trouble, except marriage, without going to law. Charles Darling, Scintillaw Juris, 1877
DetailsI was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. Groucho Marx
DetailsMarriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people—but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship. Nietzsche
DetailsWhen two people decide to get a divorce, it isn’t a sign that they “don’t understand” one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to. Helen Rowland
DetailsA lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table. Jean Kerr
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