Kiri te Kanawa
am 30.01.2007 von http://transblawg.eu
I didn't think I'd have occasion to mention law cases relating to antipodean underwear twice in one month, but here is the first and here the second:
The New South Wales Supreme Court, in Sydney, was told that Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, the operatic soprano, pulled out of a series of concerts …
Australien: Online Court
JIPS News / Straf- und Zivilverfahren teilweise per Internet durchzuführen will der australische Bundesstaat New South Wales innerhalb des kommenden Jahres ermöglichen, kündigte Justizminister John Hatzistergos an. Die Hauptverhandlungen werden weiterhin im G…
Supreme Court Nomination Blog
Transblawg / President Bush has just nominated Judge John Roberts to replace Sandra Day O’Connor. The Supreme Court Nomination Blog finds, on analysing his decisions, that when one examines the very small number of cases in which Judge Roberts disagreed in…
How I Learned to Litigate at the Movies/Der Einfluß des Fernsehens
Transblawg / Just like everyone else, some of what we learn is wrong. In Germany, young lawyers make motions in court that are unknown to German law because they saw them on American TV shows. A new law firm in Washington, D.C., conducted meetings every morn…
NEW/Website für Notare in England und Wales
Transblawg / NEW, NotaryTalk of England and Wales, is a website/forum run by Gregory Taylor, a notary public, not a scrivener notary. There are sections for links, news, German, French and Spanish pages and much more. A large number of articles both introduce the…
Who are the U.S. Supreme Court justices? / Wer sind denn die Richter im höchsten Gerichts Amerikas?
Legalesed / According to a recent survey conducted by FindLaw, more than half of all Americans are unable to name even one of the justices serving on the U.S. Supreme Court. Well, here’s a list: Sandra Day O’Connor Clarence Thomas John Roberts Anto…
Bad language in court / Schimpfwörter und Richter
Transblawg / Here's an entry I never got round to publishing, because I didn't get round to investigating the German situation. Under the heading Taking no shit from judges, Mark Liberman at Language Log recently took up the topic of how judges express t…
