you are a barrister and an academic lawyer of great repute. as a barrister, your professional commitment is to take whatever case comes your way. i think there is this phrase, the taxi rank, where you sit in chambers, you wait for the case to come along and then you take it. yeah. so over a long career in international law, i m imagining that sometimes you take cases defending people who you have grave moral doubts about. absolutely, but i ve also turned down a couple of things. because there is an exception to the cab rank rule it doesn t apply to our international cases, it only applies to cases before the english courts or the privy council. and there are exceptions and i was let off the hook once a few years ago in the case of augusto pinochet,
sexual orientation is the alarm bell for me because one thing invariably leads to another, and that i think is the heart of the issue. you in your dayjob, your professional life, you are a barrister and an academic lawyer of great repute. as a barrister, your professional commitment is to take whatever case comes your way. i think there is this phrase, the taxi rank, where you sit in chambers, you wait for the case to come along and then you take it. yeah. so over a long career in international law, i m imagining that sometimes you take cases defending people who you have grave moral doubts about. absolutely, but i ve also turned down a couple of things. because there is an exception to the cab rank rule it doesn t apply to our international cases, it only applies to cases before the english courts or the privy council. and there are exceptions
attacks on people of a certain colour or certain sexual orientation is the alarm bell for me because one thing invariably leads to another, and that i think is the heart of the issue. you in your dayjob, your professional life, you are a barrister and an academic lawyer of great repute. as a barrister, your professional commitment is to take whatever case comes your way. i think there is this phrase, the taxi rank, where you sit in chambers, you wait for the case to come along and then you take it. yeah. so over a long career in international law, i m imagining that sometimes you take cases defending people who you have grave moral doubts about. absolutely, but i ve also turned down a couple of things. because there is an exception to the cab rank rule it doesn t apply to our international cases, it only applies to cases before the english courts or the privy council. and there are exceptions and i was let off the hook once a few years ago in the case
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