March 17th 1984: Day I took my first bribe. Better Call Saul s6e13: Saul Gone, Mike with Saul in desert
The DA has a warehouse of evidence against you. ibid. Saul’s new counsel
A gun pointed at my head – that was my introduction to Walter White. ibid. Saul
You’d have been last lawyer I would have gone to. ibid. Walter to Saul in clunk
86 years. With good behaviour who knows. ibid. Saul to Kim
The best thing we can do is still break the law but do it on a lower type scale sort of thing. Trailer Park Boys s3e3: If I Can’t Smoke & Swear, I’m Fucked, Ricky
There’s always hope. If you’ve got the money to pay for hope … I need to fight fire with money. Trailer Park Boys s10e2: You Want the Lot Fees? Suck Them Out of the Tip of My Fucking Cock, lawyer to boys
Since 1967, an estimated 800,000 Palestinians have been arrested, tried and imprisoned with and without due process in civil and military courts for resisting Israeli occupation. Lea Tsemel has defended tens of thousands of them. Storyville: Advocate: A Lawyer Without Borders, caption, BBC 2020
A rebel with a lost cause. ibid. Lea
I always see the person behind the case. ibid.
You defend terrorists and their families. I imagined you differently, taller and tougher. ibid. Israeli TV presenter 1999
I’ve been called every name in the book. ibid. Lea
In June 1967 I was a law student. Suddenly, one morning, shells started exploding. ibid.
In the 1990s strange things began to happen in the small town of Corby. Mothers began to give birth to children with severe deformities. As the number of cases grew, the mothers demanded to know why this had happened to their children. This is the unknown story of the worst child poisoning case since Thalidomide. A case that changed our understanding of the dangers of air pollution. Horizon: Toxic Town: The Corby Poisonings, BBC 2020
‘Mothers all from the same small area all of whom had given to birth to children with very similar deformities.’ ibid. Stephen Bevan, Sunday Time journalist
The waste sites were located on land where the town’s steel works once stood. Corby started life as a village but in the 1930s one of the largest steel plants in Europe was built. But in 1980, faced with huge government cuts, the steel work shut down, leaving 11,000 people unemployed. Corby Council devised a plan to regenerate the town (1983). This tiny council took on the biggest land reclamation project in Europe with a ten-year regeneration programme to help bring Corby back to life. But demolishing a steel work is a complex process: steel making generates toxic waste that must be carefully disposed of. ibid.
As this story spread, more and more mothers started coming forward. ibid.
‘It was such a cover up.’ ibid.
With the Council claiming no evidence of a cluster, the mother’s fight for answers seemed to be over … ‘My reading the article in the Sunday Times was complete happenstance … I had back in the day worked in the steel works.’ ibid. Des Collins, solicitor
‘It isn’t normal for secret documents to turn up; it’s like something out of a John Grisham novel.’ ibid.
The advice included that the contractors cover their lorries and make sure no dust is created particularly on public roads … ‘Lorries weren’t covered with sludge raining out of the back of these dump trucks. All the roads in this area are judged covered in this silt. And that’s where things went pear-shaped … A tremendous amount of pollution over the whole of the district. That is basically a toxic soup of dust hanging over a town … over many many years.’ ibid. Environmental health officer
18 families were now involved in the fight for compensation, and they were finally ready to go to trial … A case that had never been proven before: 10 years after their battle began, all 18 mothers made their way to court … The judge visited the reclamation site … The issue of how far the dust could travel … [Corby Council] was hit with a legal bill of almost £15 million. It was the first case in the world to rule that air pollution could harm babies in the womb. ibid.
You can have all the fucking lawyers you like but it’s not going to change a thing. We’ve got you. You’re finished. You’re done. Shadow Dancer 2012 starring Clive Owen & Andrea Riseborough & Aidan Gillen & Domhnall Gleeson & Brid Brennan & David Wilmot & Stuart Graham & Martin McCann et al, director James Marsh, Mac
I got a situation, a big problem ... Michael Clayton 2007 starring George Clooney & Tom Wilkinson & Wilda Swinton & Sydney Pollack & Denis O'Hare & Ken Howard & Merritt Wever & Robert Prescott & Terry Serpico, director Tony Gilroy, Clooney on the dog
For some people the line between the life you log on to and reality is increasingly blurred. One couple in Korea live their virtual lives at the cost of their real lives … Love Child, television news, 2014
The only crime of its nature in which a child [Sarang] had died as an indirect result of internet gaming. ibid. Andrew Salmon re South Korean case
The genius of online gaming is that you can connect to thousands of players at the same time in the same internet space. ibid.
Just before the turn of the millennium, [South] Korea to the astonishment of the world found itself with probably the finest internet infrastructure on the planet. ibid.
The couple sold their virtual money to those who wanted to buy game items without investing the time it takes to earn them. Some call it Gold Farming, and as far as I could tell, this was the only way the couple earned income. ibid. reporter
Korea’s MMORPG games today enable users to decorate their avatars by charging the game cash, so called ‘game avatars’. ibid. young player
They would come in [Internet Bang] after dinner and play all night. They were so happy lost in this game together. ibid. reporter
They [parents of baby] had clearly fallen through the cracks of society. Rather a sad couple. They were unaware of what they had been doing. They had no information about raising children. ibid. Andrew Salmon
For some people who suffer from boredom, lose vigour, become depressed, video games provide the only comfort. They play games because they have nothing else to do. They barely eat and barely go out. They become like a hermit. ibid. psychiatrist
There is still controversy around whether the [South Korean] Law should include ‘online addiction’ in the category of mentally and physically ill. ibid. defence dude
She secretly game birth to a baby in the PC Bang toilet stall and suffocated the baby with the plastic bag. She was addicted to online gaming and roamed around the PC bang homeless. She started having contractions and went to the public restroom to give birth to a child. ibid. captions
The judge in the case accepted a psychological evaluation alleging they were addicted to online gaming. ibid. defence dude
It’s a basic responsibility as a human to feed a baby. It’s not something to be taught. ibid. rozzer
In a final twist to this story, the wife of the couple is now pregnant with a second child. ibid. Andrew Salmon in court
Sarang’s father was sentenced to one year in prison. Sarang’s mother served no time. ibid. captions
The parents are deeply sorry for their actions and are seeking redemption. ibid. defence dude
If someone wants to be my detractor, that is that person’s privilege. I just don’t care. Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn, Sky Documentaries 2020
I would say I’m probably more of a maverick. I do have a crazy list of clients. ibid.
He was known as the guy who got the conviction and execution of the Rosenbergs [Julius & Ethel]. And I think he saw this as a stepping stone to glory, and it worked. ibid. Alan Dershowitz
The Communist Party is not a political party. It is a criminal conspiracy. ibid. Cohn
COHN RESIGNS McCARTHY POST: Report 2 Other Aids Quitting. ibid. Daily News front page
He [Trump] hates anything social. And he really doesn’t like anything political either. ibid.
Roy Cohn was one of the most evil presences – and I mean evil presences – in our society during most of my adult life. ibid. observer
I wouldn’t have had my nostrils on the same straw as that pig. ibid. male socialite
‘You want to be nice, or you want to be effective?’ ibid. stage play
Ethel Rosenberg was not guilty of the crime of which she was charged. But there was a plot afoot. And the plot was from the highest levels of government to frame Ethel Rosenberg in order to get Julius to want to save her life by ratting out the people who he was in contact with. I don’t think we’ve ever had a miscarriage of justice that parallels the Rosenberg case in my lifetime. ibid. Alan Dershowitz