By Julius Melnitzer | May 29, 2024
LAWYER “CROSSED LINE” QUESTIONING RAPE VICTIM
Scotland’s Faculty of Advocates imposed a fine equivalent to C$3500 on defence lawyer Lorenzo Alonzi, concluding he “repeatedly crossed the line” while cross-examining rape victim Ellie Wilson and during his remarks in closing argument and his client’s sentencing. Among other things, Alonzi asked Wilson if she had naracisstic personality disorder despite the absence of evidence to support the question, told the court his client “fell in love with the wrong person” and stated that it was “difficult not to imagine some sense of injustice in it all” after his client was convicted. Wilson told BBC Scotland News that a “harsher penalty would have been in order”.
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DUH! RECEPTIONIST MUST BE ABLE TO NAME FIRM SHE’S WORKING FOR
The Law Society Gazette reports that the UK’s emoployment tribunal has reached the profound conclusion that it was not unreasonable that a receptionist be able to state her firm’s name when answering phone calls. So despite acknowledging that Wykeham-Hurford Sheppard & Son, the name of the Kent firm who employed the complainant, was “certainly something of a mouthful”, the tribunal upheld the termination of the temporary receptionist administrator’s placement after just eight days on the job.
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Julius Melnitzer is a Toronto-based legal affairs writer, ghostwriter, writing coach and media trainer. Readers can reach him at [email protected] or https://legalwriter.net/contact.