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Snapper wrote:
> Ronald Huttner wrote...
>> rule aus.legal. (P.S. Before retiring in 2003 I practised law for
>> 36 years - in private practice, government, and as a University Law
>> Lecturer. I can certainly "hold my own" in a rational debate on the
>> law, in the event that someone in this newsgroup ever wants to
>> engage in one rather than simply hurl puerile insults).
> And this begs the question - why the photon are you hanging around
> here?Certainly it cannot be intellectually stimulating.
> That is, indeed, a good question. Although I am retired from the
> day-to-day practice of the law, I have certainly not lost my interest
> in it. Every now and then an interesting topic emerges in aus.legal
> and I enjoy watching all the unqualified dilettantes trying to sort
> out a complex legal issue ! Where I feel that I can make a useful
> contribution I do so. I used to teach Advanced Computerised Legal
> Research in the Law School at the University of Melbourne and get a
> great deal of enjoyment and satisfaction out of researching legal
> issues thoroughly. The newsgroup aus.legal is, however, largely a
> joke. I spend a lot more time contributing to 2 of the major law and
> legal research Discussion Lists Law-Lib (for Law Librarians, Legal
> Researchers and Information Specialists) and Int-Law (for those
> interested in matters to do with foreign law, international law etc)
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