This post was originally featured on North of the Stupid Line, and has been amended to suit Deaf Blawg. I qualified as a solicitor today, the culmination of nine years of hard work. At the tender age of 14, I made the decision that I wanted to become a lawyer. A careers adviser at the [...]
Just turned on Channel 4 News which seemed to be covering trials, the length of them and if juries can understand their complex nature. As soon as I had turned the television on, it was covering the fact that a trial had to be postponed for a day because a member of the jury’s hearing [...]
This post was originally featured on North of the Stupid Line, and has been amended to suit Deaf Blawg. You will be interested to know that I am just under 4 weeks away from qualifying as a solicitor. For the past 4 months, I have been on secondment from the Royal Association for Deaf People [...]
Did you know that the constitutions of Finland (( Section 17, Constitution as amended in 1995 and in 2000 )), South Africa (( Section 6, Constitution as of 1996 )) and Canada (( Section 14, Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms 1982 )) contain provisions recognising the right to use sign language?