Solicitor

Lawyer Jean Giraudoux said that “There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.”As a child something in me always wanted to debate with a judge or prosecute someone or just be in the courtroom. I guess it is because when I 'm with my dad we always watch crime shows. But the thing that really got me was when I took Civics in Economics my sophomore year we didn 't just talk about politics in…

‘Mabo V Queensland’ is an Australian prominent landmark case which began in 1982 in the High Court of Australia and ended in 1992. This case is commonly referred to as just ‘Mabo’. This case was taken to the High Court as a test case to establish Aboriginal’s land rights including their ownership of land. A test case is a case that establishes new legal rights or principles. In this case, the concept of terra nullius was also challenged. Terra Nullius means ‘empty land’. The concept of terra…

Over the years, judicial diversity has been an issue of concern for Wales and England. Reform initiatives and debates for judicial diversity are critical features of various common law jurisdictions. The country faces gender and ethnicity diversity as the major dimension of inclusiveness in the judicial system. Critics have raised general arguments in rationalizing judicial diversity as well as the essence of having judicial appointments and procedures adhering to the requirements of equal…

A solicitor received a complaint on behalf of a data subject. The complaint was that the employer had installed CCTV cameras without informing her or other member of staff the cameras were put in place to identify disciplinary issues relating to staff. This…

Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals before accepting a post as the first civilian governor of the Philippines in 1900. In 1904, Taft also took on the role of secretary of war in the administration of Theodore Roosevelt. He was also appointed as U.S. solicitor general, the third-highest position in the justice department. After his presidency, he was selected by president Warren Harding in 1921 to replace Edward D. White as chief justice.…

Harish Bhasin. Bhasin ran his company under the name Bhasin and Associates. The plaintiff had legal representation in the form of solicitors McCarthy Tétrault. The respondents in this case were Larry Hrynew and Heritage Education Funds Inc., formerly known as Canadian American Financial Corp (to be referred to as Can – Am). The representation for the defendants solicitor Lenczner Slaught Royce Smith Griffin. The case refers most heavily to Mr. Larry Hrynew and Can – Am as the primary…

Self reflection is the mental process that acquires knowledge and understanding through thoughts and experience which helps encourage self awareness. This essay focuses on assessing my objectives and how I have developed my skills from the beginning of this semester until now. At the start of semester A, I wasn’t confident in preparing for the skills sessions and workshops. I wasn 't always able to find the correct answers to the workshop questions set which made it relatively difficult for me…

lthough the institute of trust is a common law concept, many scholars describe it as one of the biggest contributions which English common law has had on foreign jurisdictions, including the jurisdiction of civil law countries.1F. W. Maitland considers the development of this institution as “the greatest and most distinctive achievement performed by Englishmen in the field of jurisprudence”.2 Despite being a Commonwealth country and having common law influences, the major source of the…

continues to have no need to feel sympathy for her until the moment where there is protest against their marriage. At this point the reader probably does feel sympathy as the ceremony is no longer peaceful and has been in a way ruined. When the solicitor explains why he is protesting it is quite a shocking statement to have made against a man, and Jane's feelings are portrayed not with speech but with silence. Since she had no idea whatsoever that this was going to happen or what had happened in…

This scenario involves two parties, David and Theresa, in which Theresa is a potential Defendant. She is to be advised regarding two legal issues: whether she has a potential criminal liability for blackmail by threatening David into giving her the money she believes she is owed, and whether Theresa has a potential criminal liability for theft by taking the letter from David’s home. With regards to the issue of potential criminal liability for blackmail by threatening David when demanding the…