The Mature Students Club hosted a Dessert Crawl at Caffé Demetré.

The conversation took some interesting turns to the pros and cons of royalties versus government ownership in non-renewable resource enterprises.  The approach of Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams was contrasted to that of the former Premier of Alberta, Ralph Klein.

Omar Ha-Redeye is the President of the Mature Students Club at UWO.

The Mature Student Club held a Puisine (“puny”) Denning at Molly Bloom’s.

The Pusine Dennings are intended to provide a venue where students can engage in conversation and interaction in a different environment than the major law school events, and end earlier in the evening.

Omar Ha-Redeye is the President of the Mature Students Club at UWO.

Lawrence Gridin and Omar Ha-Redeye (Photo courtesy of Melissa Kluger)

Precedent Magazine hosted a student reception for UWO law students.  Melissa Kluger, publisher and editor of the magazine, hosted the event.

The Precedent event was joined by the Mature Students Club, who host bimonthly events of their own called Puisine (“Puny”) Dennings.

Omar Ha-Redeye is the President of the Mature Students Club at UWO.  He did an interview with Melissa last year when Precedent first launched its magazine.

The event was sponsored by Cassels Brock.

On the first day of school, Omar Ha-Redeye welcomed incoming first-year students at the Mature Students Reception during Orientation Week.

As President of the Mature Students Club, Omar related a common law school saying,

In 1L they scare you to death,
In 2L they work you to death,
In 3L they bore you to death.

He warned the students not to let others scare them during their first year, reminding them that many brought skills and experiences that their peers lacked.

Omar also thanked Lerners LLP for hosting the reception for the students.  The reception would also not have been possible without the assistance of the Orientation Week Committee.

The Dean of UWO Law, Ian Holloway, also gave a moving welcome, both at the Mature Students Reception, and to the entire incoming class.  Dean Holloway elaborated on the importance of lawyers in democratic societies,

Many of you will be familiar with the line from Shakespeare, “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers”.  It’s generally taken as one of the early lawyer jokes – and as a sign of how long we’ve actually been unpopular, but the truth is that Shakespeare offered this as proof of the opposite. The passage, which is taken from Henry VI… is uttered by a character named “Dick the Butcher”. Dick is part of a gang led by a character named Jack Cade, whose goal is to stage a coup d’etat – to overthrow the government. The line – uttered as it was by a murderous bully – was intended by Shakespeare to highlight the precariousness of our tradition of the rule of law, and to make the point that the surest way to chaos and tyranny even then was to remove the guardians of independent thinking.