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conservative types complain about this filth appearing in a law student magazine, remember that most of you have read Ian's work before. You just read it under his pseudonym, Justice Callinan of the High Court of Australia. Enjoy.

II BEHIND CLOSED DOORS IAN CALLINAN His Honour had summoned Counsel to his chambers after a particularly disruptive outburst. She strode into the room, her eyes afire like light reflecting from two clearly distinguished and independently controlled fishing pools on the Mer Islands leading inexorably to the conclusion of a pre-existing system of proprietary rights. As a man of much admired judicial discretion, His Honour tried in good faith to restrain his rising passion. But once he was served with notice of her heaving bosom and long golden hair, he could frustrate himself no longer and his lust filed an appearance. His Honour threw himself upon Counsel. Her mouth cried 'estoppel!', but her eyes said proceed. She knew she could not exercise her proprietary right to exclude his love. It was a passion born of courtly foreplay, and now neither of them had the intention of coming before equity with clean hands.


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