Lawyer articles
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Lawyer to the stars accidentally divorces couple
Don't you hate it when you get divorced by mistake? Why a divorce lawyer to the stars accidentally divorced the wrong couple
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Lawyer Inez Weski was "asked to be a crown witness"
The former lawyer of drugs kingpin Ridouan Taghi was asked to turn crown witness or “special informant with benefits” after her arrest, she said in an interview with the NRC on Friday. Inez Weski (69), who spent six weeks in custody last year on suspicion of having leaked information to her client, was approached by the public prosecution office shortly after her release. The encounter lasted “just 15 minutes” before she terminated it. It was also the “weirdest of all
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Indefinite detention 'not punitive': government lawyer
An Iranian asylum seeker’s indefinite detention is not punitive, Australia’s solicitor-general has argued, because he would be freed if he co-operated with attempts to deport him to his home country, despite his fears of the death penalty. The detained 37-year-old man, known as ASF17, has taken his legal bid for freedom to the High Court […]