How can you appear for someone you know is guilty? / John Coombs.

Sydney : Watermark Press, 2006.

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Coombs, John.

Coombs, Herbert Cole, -- 1906-1997.

Lawyers -- Australia -- Biography.

Criminal law -- Australia.

1. Why the law?

2. How can you appear for someone you know is guilty?

3. Advocacy

4. Dazzling Danny v. The Warm and Friendly Asbestos Company Inc. Healthy Tobacco Inc., Cross-defendant

5. Relevance and the rule against self-incrimination

6. Schooldays

7. Memories of Nugget

8. My mother

9. Agent Orange

10. A case that gave me joy

11. Another case that gave me joy

12. Yet another case that gave me joy.

This is the story of John Coombs' career as a barrister, memories of his famous father HC 'Nugget' Coombs, and the serious, sometimes poignant, and occasionally hilarious cases that arrive in our courts.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

0949284793

167 p. ; 22 cm