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Thursday 19 January 2012 by John Alcock

Geyve Walker claims to inhabit ‘the hard world of commerce’. When I became a solicitor, like Franklin Sinclair, it was into a profession and not a business that I stumbled. A professional person has a number of motivations, two of which are service and compassion.

John Alcock, Davis Blank Furniss, Manchester

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