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April 19
Law of the land, not the jungle
Today is my 150th appearance on these pages.
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March 22
Will challenges, matter of trust
Two readers have asked for some more information about how wills and trusts can be challenged in a court.
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March 8
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The recent Australian bushfires have become more tragic when it is now known that some of the more serious conflagrations were deliberately lit.
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February 22
Ode to students
Welcome back, it's good you're here, The year's about to start. But listen up and heed this well, Take this advice to heart.
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February 8
There are ways and ways of thieving
"Finders keepers" is the worst piece of legal advice ever.
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January 11
Crimes of a lesser villainy in Dunedin a century ago
There are two comparisons between our court sittings at the beginning of 1909 and the beginning of 2009.
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December 15
Straying somewhat from letter of the law
Four very recent legal issues justify comment - David Bain's return to the Privy Council, the Swann/Harford fraud case at Dunedin Hospital, the planned introduction of a three-month probationary period for employees and potential misuse of CTV footage on the Internet.
