All articles by James Morton – Page 5
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NewsCutting out the waiting room
I’m grateful to Adrian Brodkin for writing in to suggest a new term for solicitor. But he also chastises me for confusing Clacton with ‘bracing’ Skegness. Mea culpa, which shows I did at least pass my Latin O-level. More than I did geography, which was never my strong suit. After ...
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NewsTime for us to stop soliciting?
Surely, we should no longer be tagged alongside hawkers and canvassers. So what should we call ourselves?
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NewsWhen cat killers end up in court
Steven Bouquet, convicted in June of cat killing in Brighton, seems to have been something of a throwback to the New York of the 1890s.
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NewsCriminal lawyers checking account
What steps should we take or have taken to save a client (and probably others) from themselves?
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NewsDefender of the rich and famous
The flamboyant and talented Francis Lee Bailey Jr died earlier this month.
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NewsHowe to do it is half-life of Reilly
My friend Jeffrey Gordon recently told me of his less successful attempts at advocacy.
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NewsJuries with a rebellious streak
What will be the repercussions following the jury’s decision to acquit members of Extinction Rebellion on charges of criminal damage to Shell’s London HQ?
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NewsBig drinker last man standing
Where I was articled the top floor was occupied by an ex-policeman, Sid Powell, who looked like the actor Jeremy Kemp and who went by the name Sandy.
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NewsArticles and my room with a view
Not all staff had their own room or even desk at the suburban office where I was to be articled.
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NewsBoxer who was a real contender
If there was a competition for lawyer as renaissance man or woman my entrant would be Edmund E Price, writes James Morton.
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NewsDriving change in murder mystery
1902: the year Australia first saw journalists use a car to get their copy filed before competitors on a particularly sensational case.
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NewsRisqué business taints law officers
It is sobering to look back at history to see how some of the ‘great and good’ behaved.
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NewsPerils of absent body of evidence
News that a man thought to have been killed had been found hiding in a wood is a reminder of the dangers of going to trial in murder cases without a body.
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NewsOn the job hunt for POW towel
When Brougham’s towel - marked with his prisoner of war number - disappeared, all work stopped until it was recovered.
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NewsAcrobat who was called to the bars
Jean Marie Jules Léotard created the art of the flying trapeze. You can’t get much further from the law than that.
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NewsFaking it to get off the hook
Escaping traffic offences, avoiding child maintenance payments, and dodging a parking fine: reasons to fake your own death.