A Spokesperson for relief efforts for the tiny British Overseas Territory of Anguilla (population 13,500) brought a wry touch of sarcasm in relation to the speed of the ‘Motherland’s’ provision of aid, in the wake of the devastation caused by Hurricane Irma. This had been cleverly characterised by the Spokesperson as ‘relatively quick’ but slower […]
The ‘received wisdom’ is that victims of domestic violence tend, overwhelmingly, to be women and that perpetrators are men. Almost all of the major research shows that in cases involving the police, more than 90% of victims were mainly female, and more than 90% of perpetrators were mainly men. Also, many more repeat instances involved […]
I recently attended a police station in order to represent a client for an offence involving violence. The interviewing police officer was a former school friend whom I had not seen for around 40 years. He/she described the meeting as ‘ironic’. Actually it wasn’t! It was coincidental. Coincidence and irony are perhaps two of the […]
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