Sleepless Travels Reloaded

On the 9th of Australia I was admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of South Australia.
Sounds grander that it is actually.
Now to find good employ…

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We were admitted before the Full Court. It was presided by Chief Justice Doyle along with Kelly and Anderson (or was it White? Oops) JJs. His Honour the Chief Justice did a bit of an opening speech and a closing one too. It was rather nice.

But as there were only 17 or so of us it went by pretty quick. Couldn’t have been more than half an hour. I’m just relieved it’s finally all over =_=. The application for admission process is really annoying >_< particularly if you live interstate!!

We had arranged for counsel to move for our admission ahead of time, and also prepared a brief for them. I asked Roger to move for my admission of course!

So the process was like this: Everyone bows as Full Court enters (this is the “All rise…” bit). CJ makes a short speech, each counsel in turn stands up to move for admission of each admittee. The admittee stands up at the same time once his name is called. Then CJ says “he/she is so admitted”. After everyone goes through that process then the first half walks up to the bench and takes the oath (or affirmation), one at a time. After that each person signs his name in the practitioner’s roll, bows to judges then walks back to seat. When that was all done CJ gave a short closing speech. Then “all rise…” and bow to judges as they leave.

Whoo~~…

My niece and I moseyed around a bit till lunch time - went to watch a bit of a murder trial, examining the witnesses bit.

We had lunch at the Star of Siam, which is the local hangout for Adelaide lawyers, with one of my classmates. Forgot to take a full table photo. Oh well.

So anyway I’m finally admitted
It’s been a long road…I’ve wanted to be a lawyer ever since I was uhm…12? So it’s been 10 years o_O

I couldn’t have got here without the support and help of so many. First and foremost God, and then my parents and not least of all Roger who gave me my first real taste of the law.