What is the 'it'?

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  • Screenshot of the day

    Should a group of people be referred to in the singular (“it”) or the plural (“they”)? This is a thorny question – largely because it doesn’t really have a right or wrong answer. Rare is the lengthy judgment in which I don’t find some combination of, say, “the jury was” and “the jury were”, or… Continue reading

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  • I seem to have a problem with definitions

    At the end of January we had a couple of days in Sydney. The purpose of the trip was so that I could speak to the new intake of judges’ associates at the Federal Court about proofing judgments. But we packed in a decent amount of fun before that. A train journey! Art! Food! Ferries!… Continue reading

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