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hehe I keep making fun of the sex scenes in them but I should probably give one a go and read one some day

The concepts of creationism and intelligent design are not part of science, they are issues for metaphysics. Hence it should be part of a philosophy course, not high school science. Besides which, the acceptance of evolution in the global scientific community is virtually indubitable...

Yes, I could never be a defence lawyer. Occassionally I get the urge to be a prosecutor, I enjoy the litigation side of things and I think I would be particularly suited to trial process but I haven't found myself too attuned with Crim. I think commercial law will be it for me.

There are a number of NSW judges in particular who would (and will) die before they see equity merge with common law. Gummow would certainly baulk at any suggestion that the two are or should be fused into one system.

Brown isn't the clearest book in the world...

Criminal law doesn't pay too well... commercial law is where it's at

They're law firms, not saints. Money will always be top priority and they will usually go to reasonable lengths to maintain it. This means the occasional dodgy act here and there, sure. However the atmosphere varies and certainly an incident that great was probably an uncommon example, because...

Call me crazy but I never really jumped at the idea of taking career advice from someone who chose to devote the precious moments of this world to handing out career advice to smelly high school students

Excellent to see the Law Society starting to take action though

No truth? Then that statement cannot be true :P

Only if you come to ask with clean hands ;)

Do you know who Fred Nile is?

It was a big case... it might be interesting to you actually - the HC said that a health professional has a duty to warn a patient of a material risk inherent in proposed treatment. A risk is material if in the particular case: a reasonable person in the patient's position, if warned of the...

Blake Dawson Waldron :) And er.. let's forget what they did in Walton v Maher shall we...

Yes there may be issues involved in presenting the topics in an interesting way to prevent it becoming a hated, bludge subject that is a waste of time. However, ethics can be taught. Presenting different ethical dilemmas and using theoretical underpinnings of moral theory to examine these...

That's not very comforting! =/

Thinking carefully about what is right and wrong is a very valuable experience that is a lot more complex than one might think. If nothing else it gets youths considering the implications of their actions on others. It may make them at least consider important ethical decisions when in some...

I know a family friend, a solicitor, who worked for Clayton Utz, some time ago now. He explained the working atmosphere where everyone was very nasty and competitive, and people were virtually encouraged to backstab each other in order to get ahead, etc. One such example is if say, Moonlight...

I hope he doesn't start adhering to ethical nihilism to justify staying up late or some other such mischief hehe

I most certainly agree, though if ethics were to be taught then I wouldn't mind "personal" ethics forming part of the subject matter. As long as these "value" classes are not solely Christian values, then I think that the study of ethics would be an advantageous addition to youth development...