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Advocating the return of honour to the legal profession (Part 3)

The absence of honour in our legal profession is reflected in our own legal practise. These days a ‘letter of confirmation’ is issued for the most petty of matters such as mentioning on behalf of another (see my article ‘Of Mentions and Mentioning on Behalf‘ for a fuller explanation of this notion), the informing of […]

19 June 2009 / 8 Comments / Read More

Advocating the return of honour to the legal profession (Part 2)

Furthermore, a powerful intelligence is dangerous when coupled with dishonesty just as diligence is wasted without a sense of justice. A person with only the external dimension or only an incomplete proper internal dimension is at best a poser and at worse, a fraud. The focus and emphasis in recent times on the external dimension […]

18 June 2009 | Talking about Lawyers | Read More