Gina Frampton
BA LLB University of Cape Town, University of Sydney; Grad Dip–Journalism
Gina provides plain-language consulting and training services to lawyers and non lawyers; she specialises in grammar and language and is fascinated by the impact of tone in our communication. Gina graduated from the University of Cape Town as a lawyer in 1983. In the mid 1980s, she converted her law degree at the University of Sydney. She worked in industrial law in Johannesburg and then in commercial litigation for many years in Sydney. In the 1990s Gina worked in plain-language precedent drafting before moving to freelance legal and academic editing and proofreading. In 2004 she graduated from the University of Technology, Sydney in journalism and now works as a freelance journalist as well as grammar and language skills trainer. Gina is passionate in guiding people to know their own writing voice and in encouraging them to work with their writing strengths and weaknesses. In this process, she empowers writers so they gain a fresh enthusiasm for the task of writing.
Editing work
Gina has edited and proofread many documents. Highlights include:
- National Australia Bank Annual Report 2006
- Report on the Stolen Generations by the Public Interest Advocacy Centre
- Report on proposed South African Legal Aid system and appropriateness of the Australian model
- Submissions to music industry representatives on music download technology
- LLM thesis on the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China
- PhD thesis on the Environmental Law impact of the medical profession in Fiji
- Journal article on legal and factual problems arising out of asbestosis legislation.
Published writer
These are some of the articles Gina has published:
- Depression at the NSW Bar
- Follow-up story on Wagga Wagga building site accident victim, Oaglie Malothane (National prize for best print news feature story by a post graduate student)
- Book review on "The Soul of Politics" by Jim Wallis
- Article on rare book collectors
- Profile on Swans player, Craig Bolton
- Profile on philanthropist, Caroline Simpson
- Profile on Lou Donnelly, street sweeper
- Article on Walk to Cure Diabetes
- Story on families who choose to live in the CBD.