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Memories of Justice

A couple of years ago I organised “A Wake for Justice” and gathered some anecdotes from the legal professions in Yorkshire to show what legal aid lawyers really do. Please add your own and share or gather your local stories and publish them where they may be more widely read:

Memory #16

We had a client who was charged with death by dangerous driving. He was a refuse collector and in poor weather he had reversed his lorry into a telegraph pole causing it to break and fall. His co-worker and best friend had been on the street supposedly guiding the lorry. He had gone out of sight and the telegraph pole fell on him and sadly killed him. The client denied that he was driving dangerously and after a great deal of preparation, numerous experts reports and a trial (all publicly funded) he was acquitted. An unfortunate case but justice prevailed!

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Capitalism + Marxism – A Brilliant Business Model Bred in Yorkshire

At Leeds Business School Simon Biltcliffe outlined his revolutionary business model – formed from the bitter dust of the miners’ strike in his native Barnsley. His sense of injustice inspired the creation of his very successful print management business Webmart. And his “northern values” of honesty, directness and trust are the company’s DNA. He wanted to both challenge and encourage us to learn from history, to keep things simple, engage all staff, to innovate, share learning, to expect people to think you are mad – yet to make work as enjoyable and as much fun as possible. In common with Steve Edge he emphasised the principle “what goes around comes around”.

Simon was incredibly open and I was struck that he used many more “share”