Pearl Chew Ern Ping, Year 1 LLB

Being a lawyer has always been my dream since i was young. Seeing the way the lawyers present themselves in the court inspires me to be one of them, someday. To defend and stand up for the rights of the people that need fairness in this world.

Now that I’ve enrolled myself in a law school, thrilled and excited I was and I promised myself that I will do my very best to achieve my dream. But there is a catch for everything. Easy as it may seem but being a law student is never easy. There are so many statutes to know, so cases to remember, especially to understand the judgments that the judges have passed down is not making life any easier. It took me quite awhile to understand the full sentence of what the judge had to say. Sometimes there is a half-page-long sentence which only has one point to present, sometimes it has nothing at all. This makes life pretty hard because that can be really time consuming, no? Even people with good English find it hard to understand too. It is not my place to grudge because that is what lawyers do, to interpret the statutes and cases. If a commoner can simply understand what those things are, then I guess they don’t even need lawyers. But do note that a law student do start off as a commoner too.

Doing research is part of what I love to do. I do not mind having to look for books in the law department in the library, but, I was born in the world where technologies such as computers and internet have been invented. So thank God for technology! I can find things even faster now with a few things at the same time, and do not have to search high and low in the freezing library for just one case.
In the end of the day, when all things fall into places, it is the sense of accomplishment that makes all these difficulties worth it. The sense of joy is there when things are done on time. As what people have always told me, being a lawyer, even before I get there, being a law student has never been easy, having to see people’s face during internship, being used like a maid, or being ordered around is no fun. But the feeling of having to achieve something that a person has to work so hard for, I am sure everyone can relate to that and will definitely love that feeling.

Pearl Chew Ern Ping
Year 1, LLB.
University of Tasmania.