Facts, the law and looking after yourself

By Wayne Hawthorne “Get your affairs in order to ensure you are best positioned” was sound advice from Peter Westley when he spoke to Naracoorte Mens Probus Club recently. Further advice was that passed on to him as a young Lawyer, preparing for a large Federal Court case was, “Get your facts right and the law will look after itself. “If your facts are wrong, you go nowhere”. Some interesting cases were described by Peter, including property purchase disputes, a stabbing, and a brief phone call and encounter at 2am over the Heywood murder”. Whether crime pays or not was also discussed following one local drug acquittal and another prosecution. He also explained how in civil litigation, you do not win many friends. An example was after some success in the Coonawarra Wine Region Boundary Dispute, a number of the parties at the time took the proceedings personally and blamed […]

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