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Remember that DGT advertisement, back in 1985, in which Steve Wonder, from the back of his convertible, sang to us: "DOOOOON'T, DRIVE, DRUNK", finishing with the same message translated with a special accent: "If you drink, noooo, conduskassss". It was a very successful campaign. I don’t intend singing any songs here, but by the end of this ar...
My client was cheated, swindled. He hadn’t counted on finding himself in the middle of the perfect storm. From the moment he came through the office door the first day of work after the summer of 2015, I knew that he had been the victim of a scam. What had happened is that, blinded by a promising first payment, he agreed to divest himself of his assets...
In the words of the great Roman jurist Domicio Ulpiano, "Justice is to give each what is due". But what really happens in our courts? One Monday night in October 2017, my client called. His trial began the following day and he was worried. Quite understandable, I’m sure you would agree, if you found yourself facing trial for a crime that you had not co...
