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Congratulations to our winners of the LexisNexis® Legal Lingo campaign Your winning entry will be included in the online Australian Legal Dictionary, and you’ll be credited as an author. |
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1st place: Absurdiness Brown |
| Estoppelganger Cueseed Sittlement |
| A factual situation that looks like it gives rise to an Estoppel, but doesn't actually do so. Being beaten in an interlocutory application due to the opponent turning up with a Silk. The period of sitting around while waiting for a delayed party to a transaction to attend so that settlement may occur. |
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2nd place: Alison Jones |
Lawbry |
A haven. A sanctuary. A retreat from the masses. A Lawbry welcomes law students into the world of study and legal research with the added bonus of discussion areas and databases. From study to leisure, there is no better measure of a Law School’s capacity to provide students with a comfortable learning environment than through their Law Library. So, whether you seek a textbook on Torts or some Commonwealth Law Reports; a Lawbry will have it all. |
3rd place: Vincent Wight |
Camelbacking |
Continually adding legal motions to an action to flood the opponent with requirements to respond and limit their ability to proceed with the original claim or defence until their time runs out or they give up due to the sheer mass of the task. |
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4. Matthew Newell 5. Jo Soren 6. Dr. Joseph M. Fernandez 7. Sarah Lynch 8. Donal Griffin 9. Alistair Coyne 10. David W Marks QC 11. Kristine Hanscombe 12. Tom Gardner 13. Kate Denning 14. Daniel Meyerowitz-Katz 15. Samantha Marks QC |
Quoted securities; Income from property; Reverse Morris Trust Exclusion zone Troll; Cyberbullying or Cyber bullying Lawgic; Law Hack; Pop Law Eligible persons; Factors warranting Hospital Pass Brief Box of snakes Blandify Triple cocktail Auslaw SOC Lawreka! |
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