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Dear Mary

Dear Mary: How do I address a magistrate of indeterminate sex?

And how can I bring a little joy to a memorial service?

19 September 2015

8:00 AM

19 September 2015

8:00 AM

Q. Some years ago, while appearing as a barrister before a bench of three magistrates in the youth court, I encountered a problem. As I rose to address the chairman of the bench I found myself looking at an entirely androgynous figure with short brown hair, soft features and any physical indications of sex obscured beneath a large woolly jumper.

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