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How did everyone go?
From asking around, it appears passers didn’t fill up many Readers’ Courses like what happened with the Oct 2025 group (unless someone has been offered a spot in 2029?)
https://www.queenslandjudgments.com.au/caselaw/qcat/2026/245
ORDERS:
2.The Minister for Health and Ambulance Services is joined to the proceeding
3..The matter is listed for a Directions Hearing on a date and time to be advised.
If someone were to play the *Burnout* PS2/Xbox360 games in real-life, what would happen? Takedowns and traffic checking would be vehicular murder, and driving into on-coming traffic would be reckless endangement. Plus speeding
For context I work in recruitment and I just don't understand this practice area. I had maybe 2 insurance matters when I practiced a lifetime ago, but there's just so many areas and I constantly feel out of depth. I understand it's all litigious, and injuries are fairly straight forward, but whenever I speak to someone about financial lines or statutory insurance it feels like another language. Thanks in advance 🙏
I’m preparing for the vic bar test in October 2026 and was wondering if anyone who has sat it could please send me their notes. It’s been years since I’ve done notes and I’m drowning in anxiety on how to even start. I am posting on here as a last desperate resort 😭🥲
Thanks so much. Live laugh love LAW. Kidding. Offering money or coffee!
But seriously thanks.
I have no interest in the politics. With the meeting regarding keeping or not keeping this person in their party due at 18:30 on Friday, we must at least give credit for having the matter heard the day before… and not dropping it in via email two minutes before the registry shut for the weekend, unlike certain other litigants (particularly in the HCA).
Someone I went to law learning building (the u word seems banned) with was done by the legal services Commissioner for pretending to be a lawyer and I wanna snoop.
Edit: it wouldn't let me Post with the word uni or school, this was the best I could do after a day of AML, 😔
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Speaking of a mid to top tier firm. The annual billable target does not take into account weekends, leave (annual or personal, let alone anything else), office shutdown period.
How is this legal? How are law firms getting away with asking employees to work so much?
And if you don’t meet your billable target then you’re reminded to work harder, ignoring all the overtime already put in.
Curious to know if this is the standard or if overtime work is a forever expectation.
I've been practising commercial litigation for 2 years so far, and have recently started at a firm where the partners don't have referral networks; rather we all practise 'door law' (i.e. h3lp anyone that walks through the door).
I've had to turn away so many clients because they simply don't have the funds to afford legal services. This hasn't been a lot of fun, but I think today has been the tipping point.
I spoke with a couple who are going to lose their home, and the house they are renovating to m0ve into, because they were pressured into a 48% p.a. loan from a predatory lender who has now sold their house behind their back for defaulting on the loan.
I've spoken with my supervisor about the matter, but his answer is essentially 'no point trying if they don't have the money' and 'it's not worth them getting into it' because the interlocutory injunction app alone will run $50k and they'll be looking at adverse damages if they're not successful in the proceeding.
I don't see myself as an overly empathetic person, but this is heartbreaking and it all feels a bit hopeless. What was the point of working in this field if I have to tell 95% of people that need my h3lp to get lost.
Please share the wins you have had that helped the little guy.
About time the ACCC swung behind my dire predictions of apocalypse about unfair terms.