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ItemFarewell: Legal Beagle (1986 – 1993)(The Victorian Bar, 1993)Comment upon the passing of the “Legal Beagle” comic strip from the Law Society of Western Australia’s journal Brief.
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ItemSplitting heirs(Law Institute of Victoria, 1993-03)This is a letter published in the Law Institute Journal. Discusses the common misconception that both twins must share the same parents. Although it is rare for non-identical twins to have separate fathers, it is possible. It is only in the instance of identical twins resulting from the abnormal division of a single fertilized egg into two identical fertilized eggs that such twins share identical genetic characteristics and the same parents. In the case of fraternal twins resulting from the separate fertilization of separate eggs with such twins sharing some (but not all) genetic characteristics genetic testing of both twins is required to comprehensively determine the paternity of each of the twins. In the case of identical twins the genetic testing of only one twin is sufficient to determine the paternity of both twins. However, the only means to conclusively determine that twins are identical is by genetic testing of both twins.
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ItemWilliam Wreathcock: imperfect attorney( 1993)Eighteenth century legal practitioner with questionable ethics.
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ItemMore tricks for new players( 1993)A further collection of anecdotes involving bold, insouciant, or impudent behaviour by counsel directed towards the court or the practice of law.
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ItemThe lore of mathematics and law( 1993)The reliance upon mathematics in the law is considered by a jaundicedobserver who believes that there exists too much reliance and that this reliance is“pseudo science” in an attempt to bolster a litigant’s position in a lawsuit. Theobserver’s view is that lawyers are ill-equipped to utilise mathematics.