Continuing on from my legal themed posts, here’s an amusing emails from another comrade albeit from QUT *coughs* UQ rules *coughs*
The High Court is trying to kill me!
I’m not paranoid – I have proof! Tonight, they tried to overload my brain with cruel and subversive sentences!
It’s not the language they use [have a legal dictionary, did Grade 12 Legal Studies], but I swear there are double negatives in every paragraph, and there’s so much waffle crammed together!! What could be said in three sentences is squashed into one, a strange change from their usual rule that “five paragraphs is always better than five words.”
I therefore move that we abolish the Full Court of the High Court immediately, based on the following sentence, which is CONCLUSIVE evidence of their malicious intent:
[The Metropolitan Gas Co v The Federated Gas Employees’ Industrial Union (1924) 35 CLR 449 - HCA.]
“An order nisi was granted on 21 February 1925 (pursuant to this section) on the application of the Metropolitan Gas Co., calling upon the Federated Gas Employees’ Industrial Union and Charles Crofts to show cause why an order should not be made against the respondents to restrain them from a) committing or continuing a breach of a Federal award between the Company and the union and an agreement between the same parties;
b) committing or continuing a contravention of the Act by doing anything in the nature of a strike;
or c) ordering, counseling or encouraging members of the Union to strike against the Company.”
Well, they nearly lost me, but I think I got them in the end.
“An order unless was granted. The Met Gas Co were the applicants; they won. The order made the Fed Gas Emp Ind Un and CCs prove that an order against them was a bad idea. The order against them would have stopped them breaking the law, striking, or encouraging a strike.”
Losers.
Hoping your degree’s jargon is less painful,
Tirzah.
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