What a week it has been! I have been in and out of court like a jack-in-a-box and have sat with two federal magistrates and three judges so far. Special thanks to HHJustice Le Poeur Trench, HHJustice Rose and HHJustice Collier, who have all been thoroughly lovely and tremendously helpful with the research I am conducting and were all extremely generous with their time. Next stop the FRC and tomorrow an interview with the spokesperson for the Safer Family Law Campaign. I will be speaking with Chief Justice The Right Hon. Diana Bryant at some stage this week and will let you know how that goes. I am still pretty in awe of the ADR and mediation work that goes on here, and the LAT (Less adversarial trial) seems to me the biggest success of all. The Aussie reforms, it would seem, have literally opened up the system to a whole different style of adjudication- an impressive hybrid of the old common law model and newer inquisitorial style which has managed to compliment as opposed to scupper the traditions at work here. We have a lot to catch up on I think. Watch this space.
Well...I had a busy week followed by a busy weekend: went ski-diving at the beach at Woolongong which was an incredible experience, heart-stoppingly beautiful and utterly magical AND managed to hand feed some giraffes at Taronga Zoo thanks to a friend being roomies with the keeper there-we got the opportunity to go into the enclosures and managed to see some really cool stuff the public don't get to see.
I am absolutely loving Sydney- a wonderful place with wonderfully warm people and I shall be enormously sad to leave. I am however extremely excited about getting to grips with Los Angeles and familiarising myself with their way of doing things- lets hope there are more lessons to be learned from them!
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