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Tue 02 Feb 2010And the winners are the lawyers . . . yet again
HEART BEAT:Legal proceedings are traumatic for patient and doctor, writes MAURICE NELIGAN
ROBERT PEEL, when British home secretary, said he believed that “legislature was animated by a sincere desire to frame its legislation upon the principle of equity and justice”. He didn’t mention common sense. Edmund Burke did: “It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason and justice tells me I ought to do.”
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