Monthly Archive: August 2017
Reading Time: 18 minutesIntroduction In the first part of my paper (see the preceding post) I outlined the findings of studies of the incidence of psychological distress and mental illness among law students and legal practitioners. I...
Reading Time: 4 minutesHighest Level of Psychological Distress The incidence of psychological distress and mental illness among Australian lawyers and law students is significantly higher than that affecting the general population and those in other professions or...
Reading Time: 6 minutesAn interesting (if not altogether important) Australian political/legal issue will play out over the next few days. It concerns several federal parliamentarians, who in the past month discovered that they may hold dual citizenship,...
Reading Time: 14 minutesReligious conservatives opposed to marriage equality in Australia, routinely cite sacred texts that they claim support their position. However, such references to biblical endorsement of marriage appear to be little more than sanitised spin,...