Once Bitten, Twice Fined by Graeme H Pagan

Once Bitten, Twice Fined by Graeme H Pagan

This lively book is an account of Graeme Pagan's encounters and experiences in over forty years of legal practice in Oban. It is a lively mixture of the humorous and the sad, the significant and the trivial, the intentional and the serendipitous and paints an entertaining and informative picture of the life in this beautiful part of western Scotland. Graeme Pagan was involved professionally with an enormously wide range of cases in his long and varied career. But this is not a book just for those interested in the law; it is full of human interest and the peculiarities of life in the Highlands and Islands. Here he includes stories about accident enquiries, court room anecdotes, and some cautionary tales of divorce and family law from less enlightened times, including the hilarious tale of the Brigadier who wanted to divorce a woman who was not his wife. We also learn about the solicitor who was a prisoner-of-war for an hour and a half; the man who was assaulted by a ferret, and how the author accidentally ended up on the catwalk while on the way to a session at the Edinburgh Jazz Festival. On a more serious note, Graham Pagan also relates incidents from his political activism, his

Graham Pagan was born in Fife and studied law at Edinburgh University. He has worked with the Oban solicitors Hosack and Sutherland since 1960 and has been senior partner since 1981. He was part-time Procurator Fiscal at Oban for nine years, chairman of the Oban Housing Association for 30 years and was actively involved in the campaign for a Scottish parliament. In 1998 he became MBE for charity work with Scottish Solicitors WILL AID scheme, which he set up in 1988.

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ISBN 13	9781841583075
ISBN 10	1841583073
Title	Once Bitten, Twice Fined
Author	Graeme H Pagan
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Birlinn General
Year published	2004-06-01
Number of pages	208
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