It is an intriguing saga which is recounted in Board of Examiners v XY [2006] VSCA 190, involving the application for admission to practice by a woman with a criminal record and a history of mental illness. According to psychiatrists, by the time of an appeal to the Supreme Court, her mental illness was over. So the Court overturned the Board of Examiners’ original decision, though acknowledging it had been correct at the time. The Court of Appeal recounted the facts (but did not reproduce the intriguing fact noted by the trial judge that much of the self-harm inflicted by the woman occurred in the toilets of court buildings in the city): Continue reading “The XY saga of a formerly mentally ill applicant for admission”
Court of Appeal Explains the Application for Admission to Practice in Victoria
In Board of Examiners v XY [2006] VSCA 190, Justice Chernov gave some explanation of the processes for application for admission to practice: Continue reading “Court of Appeal Explains the Application for Admission to Practice in Victoria”