A cannot for the life of me think of anyone who I could describe as a virago, perhaps Barman knows someone who fits the description:-)
Well, I'm just about there with this month's homework and must admit that I've found it all quite tedious. I desperately need to practise my advocacy, which I decided yesterday was a load of jumbled rubbish, so I hastily re-worked my skeleton to give it a better flow. An application for an interim payment isn't the most exciting thing to be doing and because it's so dull, I'm finding it impossible to inject any passion into it. I'm sure that in real life it's quite different and has more excitement, but this scenario has an air of silliness about it, which makes it all quite difficult to take seriously.
I get my Legal Research results next week, just before the study weekend, so I'm quite nervous about it, particularly as it's my first BVC assessment result. I'm unsure, but seem to think that I will also receive my civil/criminal MCT results at the same time. On second thoughts, perhaps I do know someone who is a virago!
OLPAS has been ignored for a few days because it is such a tedious task and I find the whole process a bit strange. Having worked for myself for many years, it is quite difficult for me to get to grips with what is basically an application for a job. Oh well, they will either like me or they won't and there is not a deal I can do about that one, but I do keep imagining the perplexed look on the pupillage committee's faces when they get to my application:-) I did wonder about the questionnaire section that asks whether the applicant is: gay, straight, single etc., perhaps if I tick the 'other, please specify' box and then write 'I'll be whatever you want me to be', maybe this will do the trick and clinch me that precious interview? What the hell is 'other' anyway? If you are not straight, gay, bi-sexual, single or married, what else can you be? Cliff Richard perhaps? Perhaps I should put 'hermaphrodite', perhaps not, Chambers might tell me to go f**k myself by way of a polite response to my application.
6 comments:
I think we know you're all woman. No need for 'other'...
i assume your app for interim payment is the same as ours - what i referred to as 'the bloody statue'. this was the advocacy exercise in which i was delighted to be able to use the old blackadder quote: 'what we are in effect saying is that something none of us have ever seen is slightly less white than something else none of us have ever seen.'
i rather enjoyed that - asking the judge whether nash terraces were white was fun too.
having handed in both opinion and the world's most complicated draft on friday, my mood is somehwat lighter and i am cheered in my forthcoming grapple with olpas by an interview on saturday...
You'll be FINE, Maid! You worked Hard on your PLR, and your efforts will, I am SURE be more than amply rewarded! You may get your Civ/Crim MCT Back ( we did at my provider) - though someone once told me that BPP tend to leave all the MASSIVE results until the end of the course when your overall grade is pronounced, but dont quote me.
Advocacy is something you just have to keep practising to your mirror at home, unfortunately - there is never enough time on the p/t course for such an important subject, which seems a bit of a misnomer.
As to the wretched pupillage portal - dont ask, or I will begin to start swearing, when I have only just stopped......!
SW - the salt statue is this time around, a summary judgment application, the interim application is 'Maud' aka 'Amber', an even more silly scenario than the statue.
Well done and good luck with the interview.
LM - I belive we get our MCT's back fairly quickly, the full-timers did anyway, and I'd rather know my progress as I go along than be left worrying about many assessments in another 15 months time. Imagine, all that work to eventually discover you ARE the class thicko:-) We have another crim/civil MCT next year, so maybe they save the results from that for later?
The advocacy is suffering I'm afraid and having got 2 lots to 'perform' this weekend, I'm getting myself jumbled up, no doubt my 'killer' closing lines will refer to the wrong claimant and the wrong proceedings;-)
I haven't ventured back into the pupillage portal, but need to do so pretty soon, 2 down, 10 to go:-(
Good luck for results day! I'm sure it'll give you a boost before Olpas :)
Ah, bless you Mel. I can't believe how worried I am about it all. By all accounts Legal Research is a tough module and I just hope I've done enough, if not, it wasn't for want of trying:-)
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