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Valedictory Ceremony for The Hon Justice Bernard Warnick
The Valedictory Ceremony for the Honourable Justice Bernard Warnick took place at the Family Court of Australia, Commonwealth Law Courts, Brisbane on 31 March 2010.
The speech delivered at the Ceremony by His Honour is reproduced below.
Thank you, Chief Justice for those remarks, including the remarks of others that you’ve conveyed. They are unduly generous. Thank you for standing and falling silent as we came in. To be thanked for that probably seems strange to those of you here who work in courts, but to family and friends, it’s not been part of our interaction despite occasional suggestions from me.
Let me explain my thoughts about today. When a lawyer joins a court, that lawyer ceases to be an advocate promoting the partial position of the litigant – a pleader for hire – and he or she embarks upon a very different role. In our society, ceremony and ritual are commonly used to mark changes in status. The court welcoming ceremony dramatises the submersion of the individual within the institution. It is, I think, helpful to that individual and to the profession of which the lawyer has been part, to highlight the change with ceremony. I’m less confident that when a judge leaves the bench
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Jasmine Guy
American actress and singer (born 1962)
Jasmine Chanel Guy[2] (born March 10, 1962)[3][4] is an American actress, singer, dancer, and director. She portrayed Dina in the 1988 film School Daze and Whitley Gilbert-Wayne on the NBCThe Cosby Showspin-offA Different World, which originally ran from 1987 to 1993. Guy won four consecutive NAACP Image Awards from 1990 through 1993 for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for her role on the show. She played Roxy Harvey on Dead Like Me and as Sheila "Grams" Bennett on The Vampire Diaries. She also played the role of Gemma on Grey's Anatomy.
Early life
[edit]Born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Jaye (née Resendes) and William Vincent Guy,[5] she was raised in the affluent historic Collier Heights neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia, where she attended Northside Performing Arts High School. Her mother, a Portuguese American, was a former high-school teacher, and her father, who was African-American, was pastor of the historic Friendship Baptist Church of Atlanta, which served as an early home to Spelman College; he was also a college instructor in philosophy and religion.[citation needed] At the age of 17, she moved to New York City to study dance at