Justice Baragwanath: A student's Tribute

The readings required of students at law school can become a chore. One loses count of the formulaic statements of precedent and strained formalistic distinctions. Judgments tend to merge together in even the most assiduous of students' memories, so that often by the time a law test arrives all that is remembered is a blur of facts, case names, and dates - the residue of a few months' teaching of the common law.