Tertiary and Continuing The Law Thread

[barmy44]

Torts and crim law if you want interesting.

I've forgotten the name of the case but here's a run down of one of my favourtie Torts cases: guy sitting on a tram, there is a sign in the tram that says not to put any thing or any body part out of the window. So the guy sticks his head out and it gets knocked off by a telephone/electrical pole (or some sort). His family then sues the tram company on the basis that it was reasonable to expect that someone might put their head out and the proximity the track was laid to the pole meant it was reasonably forseeable.

They won the case and iirc part of the reasoning was the fact there was a sign forbidding it suggested that it could have been forseen.

Also, just for anyone thinking of doing College of Law after their degree, think long and hard about it. It may seem better because it's faster than Leos, but it's a mountain of effort if you do it propertly.

anyone ever come across the contract case from the states regarding 'pepsi points'? leonard v pepsico...

by drinking pepsi products, you could accumulate 'pepsi points', or you could purchase them for 10 cents each. these there was an advertisement stating how many points you would need to earn specific merchandise... pepsi sunglasses - 175 points; pepsi leather jacket - 1 450 points etc. each time the guy in the ad put on the merchandise, its points value would pop up on screen.



at the end of the ad, the guy turns up to school in a harrier jump jet, and its 'pepsi points' value is put up on screen - 7 000 000 points.

some guy (perhaps a syndicate, rather than one person) saved up the $700 000 required to purchase the 7 000 000 points and tried to claim his harrier. it was not a case we were required to study, but just an interesting one our lecturer told us about, but pepsi won the case and avoided having to hand over a couple of hundred million dollars worth of military hardware.

 

[the harry]

anyone ever come across the contract case from the states regarding 'pepsi points'? leonard v pepsico...

by drinking pepsi products, you could accumulate 'pepsi points', or you could purchase them for 10 cents each. these there was an advertisement stating how many points you would need to earn specific merchandise... pepsi sunglasses - 175 points; pepsi leather jacket - 1 450 points etc. each time the guy in the ad put on the merchandise, its points value would pop up on screen.



at the end of the ad, the guy turns up to school in a harrier jump jet, and its 'pepsi points' value is put up on screen - 7 000 000 points.

some guy (perhaps a syndicate, rather than one person) saved up the $700 000 required to purchase the 7 000 000 points and tried to claim his harrier. it was not a case we were required to study, but just an interesting one our lecturer told us about, but pepsi won the case and avoided having to hand over a couple of hundred million dollars worth of military hardware.

Yeah the basis being that it was a "mere puff" strictly for marketing that no one would take seriously, I think anyway, much like how tooth paste will make your teeth "whiter than white".

Common sense says this case was flat out wrong. Offer to the world: you do x in consideration for y happening. He did x, in collecting the points, they failed to fulfill their part of the contract.

 

[Hard_to_Beat]

 

[barmy44]

^ ^ ^ ^ satans law rant ^ ^ ^ ^

the clip ended before the bit where satan told keanu that he never went to uni, merely read two dozen choice texts, and came out of it a legal master...

 

[QS]

Yeah the basis being that it was a "mere puff" strictly for marketing that no one would take seriously, I think anyway, much like how tooth paste will make your teeth "whiter than white".

Common sense says this case was flat out wrong. Offer to the world: you do x in consideration for y happening. He did x, in collecting the points, they failed to fulfill their part of the contract.

Similar to the smoke ball case, except this one was an affirmative mere puff

 

[Hard_to_Beat]

Who needs to be Satan? Any clown can do that.

 

[Hard_to_Beat]

Attention lawyer bastards!

How do I go about getting a transcript of a case that is listed as "unreported"?

 

[Black Diamond]

Attention lawyer bastards!

How do I go about getting a transcript of a case that is listed as "unreported"?

Name of case?

 

[jo172]

Attention lawyer bastards!

How do I go about getting a transcript of a case that is listed as "unreported"?

Let's assume it's not a High Court case.

Call the relevant Court's registry

 

[checkraiseulite]

Good luck if it's a VCAT decision.

Victorian Supreme Court library is generally pretty good with tracking down unreported judgements for you.

 

[jo172]

Good luck if it's a VCAT decision.

Victorian Supreme Court library is generally pretty good with tracking down unreported judgements for you.

It seems he's after the transcript not the judgment though?

Or it 'transcript' different in Victoria?

 

[checkraiseulite]

It seems he's after the transcript not the judgment though?

Or it 'transcript' different in Victoria?

I just assumed he was after the judgement. Didn't read it properly.

 

[Deeskys]

Out of curiosity for current law students, what Enter/Atar scores did you guys get?

 

[tubbis]

If you want mind numbing, wait till you do Constitutional Law.

Workchoices case.

 

[BC9_]

Yeah the basis being that it was a "mere puff" strictly for marketing that no one would take seriously, I think anyway, much like how tooth paste will make your teeth "whiter than white".

Common sense says this case was flat out wrong. Offer to the world: you do x in consideration for y happening. He did x, in collecting the points, they failed to fulfill their part of the contract.

Sounds a bit like the Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball case.

 

[the harry]

Sounds a bit like the Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball case.

Except the decision went the other way.

 

[BC9_]

Haven't heard about the other case yet.

 

[Impunity!]

Out of curiosity for current law students, what Enter/Atar scores did you guys get?

I got a bazillion, u mad?

 

[jo172]

I got a bazillion, u mad?

I got a bazillion.05

 

[Impunity!]

I got a bazillion.05

 

[QS]

I got a bazillion, u mad?

I think tertiary entrance scores were calculated on tequila shots back in our day (assuming, SoR, you are of similar age to me).

 

[Impunity!]

I think tertiary entrance scores were calculated on tequila shots back in our day (assuming, SoR, you are of similar age to me).

Leavers '95

brb turning the 1978 on my WA driver's licence into a 1975 with a compass and liquid paper

 

[QS]

Leavers '95

brb turning the 1978 on my WA driver's licence into a 1975 with a compass and liquid paper

97 here. Same era.
We used to cut out numbers from yellow pages and use some weird tape to stick them on the old yellow licences. Never got caught once.

 

[Donners]

Also, just for anyone thinking of doing College of Law after their degree, think long and hard about it. It may seem better because it's faster than Leos, but it's a mountain of effort if you do it propertly.

Really? I didn't find it that challenging. Tedious, absolutely, and poorly-run - one lecturer disappeared mid-way through a semester and work was about six weeks late in being marked - but not too demanding. I only did it part-time, and did all my work during downtime at my job.

 

[BomberFletch31]

Really? I didn't find it that challenging. Tedious, absolutely, and poorly-run - one lecturer disappeared mid-way through a semester and work was about six weeks late in being marked - but not too demanding. I only did it part-time, and did all my work during downtime at my job.

I did College of Law full time, and I definitely found it tedious, albeit not too challenging. The challenge was in time management rather than the work itself. The amount of work required over such a short period of time is mind-boggling.