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Your will is yours to make

No one wants to think about their own mortality. Let alone what needs to be done in preparation for their inevitable demise.

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The first quarter of 2021 – 4 quick wins for law firms

It’s really difficult to know what you should be planning to do right now so I thought that a few practical initiatives that will work in any situation might just be the right medicine.

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Maintenance matters – Child maintenance

When it comes to children’s rights, the law can serve as their strongest guardian. In fact, according to the law, parents have a duty to support their children until the children can support themselves.

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Thinking of resigning with immediate effect? Think again.

Our labour courts and labour appeal courts have repeatedly been asked to determine whether an employee may resign with immediate effect.

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The work from home saga

With the jury still out as to whether most companies and their respective employees will go back to an office environment permanently, this new ability to choose has definitely given people things to think about

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Useful provisions to include in a will

It is vital to understand the importance of having a valid will. This article will highlight some useful provisions to include in a will.

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The trouble with law is lawyers

Clarence S. Darrow (1857-1938) American lawyer


 

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Every law is an evil,
for every law is an infraction of liberty.

-Bentham Jeremy


 

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Prisons are built with stones of Law,
brothels with bricks of Religion.

-Blake,William


 

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The trouble with law is lawyers

Clarence S. Darrow (1857-1938) American lawyer


 

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Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.

– Oscar Wilde

 


 

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If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.

– Oscar Wilde

 


 

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Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

– Oscar Wilde


 

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If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

– Charles Dickens (1812-1870) British novelist


 

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The trouble with law is lawyers.
– Clarence S. Darrow (1857-1938) American lawyer


 

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The law is reason, free from passion.
– Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC) Greek philosopher.


 

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.
– Edmund Burke (1729-1797) British political writer.


 

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We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.

– Mark Twain

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

– Clarence S. Darrow (1857-1938) American lawyer

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I was never ruined but twice; once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.

– Voltaire

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Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.

– Oscar Wilde

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Every law is an evil, for every law is an infraction of liberty.

-Bentham Jeremy

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Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

– Hart Pomerantz

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

– Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)

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In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

– Immanuel Kant

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Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.

– Oscar Wilde

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A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

– Robert Frost

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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

– Martin Luther King Jr.

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Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.

– Sophocles

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He who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client.

– Proverb

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The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer.

– Will Rogers

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Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

– Khalil Gibran

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Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

– Mark Twain

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

– Edmund Burke (1729-1797) British political writer.

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The law is reason, free from passion.

– Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC) Greek philosopher.

“

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

– Oscar Wilde

“

The trouble with law is lawyers

Clarence S. Darrow (1857-1938) American lawyer

“

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

– Oscar Wilde

“

The trouble with law is lawyers.

– Clarence S. Darrow (1857-1938) American lawyer

“

Prisons are built with stones of Law, brothels with bricks of Religion.

-Blake,William

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