All I can say is - he never ripped me off. Didn't do much for me either, and we parted company fairly quickly, but I never paid him a penny.

Without any legal qualifications, of any kind (in any country), GdS secured the release of Hoogstraten and Palmer 'Goldfinger' - and many others.

A sad reflection on our legal system, which still has no proper vetting process for 'lawyers'. The best legal system in the world (?) - sadly, no.....

"If you apply the law instead of interpreting it and finding a way round it, then Jonathan King will be totally exonerated." said Mr De Stefano. "King had never even met his accusers aged under 16...and the Director of Public Prosecutions had not given formal permission for the case to be taken to court."

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4394095.stm

Ben 9 wrote:
Without any legal qualifications, of any kind (in any country), GdS secured the release of Hoogstraten and Palmer 'Goldfinger' - and many others.

A sad reflection on our legal system, which still has no proper vetting process for 'lawyers'. The best legal system in the world (?) - sadly, no.....



I have often thought that being a good lawyer is something that cannot be taught.
I suppose if you have a passion for it you will teach yourself far more than would be required to qualify.

Radio 5 mentioned JK in relation to GdiS this evening, they mentioned GdiS was given an interview as JK was being released from his time away

honey!oh sugar sugar. wrote:
if you have a passion for it you will teach yourself far more than would be required to qualify


Sugar.

My doctor, lawyer and accountant - are qualified, in three countries....

I hope yours didn't teach themselves.

Ben 9 wrote:
honey!oh sugar sugar. wrote:
if you have a passion for it you will teach yourself far more than would be required to qualify


Sugar.

My doctor, lawyer and accountant - are qualified, in three countries....

I hope yours didn't teach themselves.



Its Honey please, Ben.

I suspect my doctor might have just watched a couple of episodes of casualty actually.

I know a very dull lawyer. She is completely lacking in a sense of logic and doesn't seem very interested so it will probably be impossible for her to get work despite qualifications.
It is no guarantee of competence.

It must be easy to fake experience in teaching, law or nursing but what on earth do "surgeons" practice on?

Reading the reports, I reckon he was sentenced to lots of little terms and the judge didn't make them concurrent; I reckon that will be changed on appeal and he'll serve a small fraction of the time.

Just been on the BBC talking about Giovanni: a friend suggests that the media have got it wrong and not the Judge; he's probably been given 7 or 8 sentences of a couple of years each, bound to be concurrent (as opposed to consecutive, which very few get, serving one after the other) and the media has interpreted them as 14 years.

But we all know the media is almost more useless than the judiciary so he'll probably do less than a couple of years inside.

Just for clarification, but I thought *anyone* could be an Advocate in Law (Civil advocate, Mackenzie friend) and that you didn't necessarily need legal training for that? Was the problem that GDS said he was something he wasn't?

I think that was a nice commercial angle; I suspect his worst convictions were for stealing monies from clients.