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During the High Court of Australia�s first century, Mary Gaudron served as the first and only female member of its bench. This paper commemorates the 25th anniversary of Gaudron�s appointment to the High Court by examining the speeches made at her swearing-in ceremony, in February 1987. Largely ignored by scholars, swearing-in ceremonies provide unique insights into the history of courts and the personality and philosophy of their judges. Through the prism of Gaudron�s swearing-in ceremony, this paper showcases the significance of these occasions as a commentary on the institutional and intellectual life of the Court. In particular, Gaudron�s swearing-in ceremony tells a fascinating story of institutional and gender politics in the High Court: the legal community�s varied response to the novelty of a woman High Court Justice; Gaudron�s intricate balancing between her distinctive vision of her obligations as a mentor to women lawyers and her role as �one of seven� on a collegiate bench; and the perennial tension between innovation and tradition in legal method.

During the High Court of Australia�s first century, Mary Gaudron served as the first and only female member of its bench. This paper commemorates the 25th anniversary of Gaudron�s appointment to the High Court by examining the speeches made at her swearing-in ceremony, in February 1987. Largely ignored by scholars, swearing-in ceremonies provide unique insights into the history of courts and the personality and philosophy of their judges. Through the prism of Gaudron�s swearing-in ceremony, this paper showcases the significance of these occasions as a commentary on the institutional and intellectual life of the Court. In particular, Gaudron�s swearing-in ceremony tells a fascinating story of institutional and gender politics in the High Court: the legal community�s varied response to the novelty of a woman High Court Justice; Gaudron�s intricate balancing between her distinctive vision of her obligations as a mentor to women lawyers and her role as �one of seven� on a collegiate bench; and the perennial tension between innovation and tradition in legal method.

SUMMARY. An evaluation of the Nottingham parent‐held record and information booklet is presented. The book was well used by the majority of parents with 80 per cent of the parents having read all the booklet by the time their babies were three months old. 70 per cent of the parents had retained the booklet when their children had reached the age of one year

The study's aim is to analyze the improved hand function and bimanual performance with unilateral cerebral palsy (CP) from repeat doses of an augmented, group-based pediatric constraint-induced movement therapy (pCIMT) camp. Fifteen children with unilateral CP (ages 5–15 years, 9 male, 6 female, Manual Abilities Classification System (MACS) I = 3, MACS II = 11, and MACS III = 1) participated in two sessions of an annual pCIMT camp. Participants attended 10 days of camp where they received group-based training wearing a constraint for a total of 50 h, received bilateral, occupation-based activities for 10 h (60 h total) including 30 min each day on the Hocoma Armeo®Spring. The Assisting Hand Assessment (AHA) was administered pre-intervention and post-intervention. Our results discovered a mean interval dose 1 and 2 was 511 days. Dose 1 mean AHA score at baseline was 55.93 ± 12.78 and 63.07 ± 12.85 at post. Dose 2 mean AHA score as 58.13 ± 14.83 and post 66.53 ± 12.82. In conclusion, there was an overall significant bimanual functional improvement based on AHA scores that indicate, regardless of which camp session, scores improved from pre-intervention to post-intervention. There was a generalized upward trend in improved hand function of a group-based pCIMT, and diminished effects between doses were reversed with repeat doses.