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Hardoon describes his client as a concerned student who couldnt sit still and allow injustice to happen...
...jeopardize his admission to an Ivy League school unless the climate at Groton was truly unbearable. This was why it ultimately led to a lawsuit, he says. The bottom line, which for me is ultimately shocking, is that the school graduates the two students accused of abuse, and my client does not get a diploma. Hawkins opted to get his diploma from a local public school rather than continue at Groton. Groton officials contend that Hawkins was given the opportunity to finish school by doing work at home, but he refused...
Hardoon stresses that it was never Hawkins goal to antagonize the school. My client cared about the school, too. He believed that this is what the school stood foryou should speak up. No one was taking the position that Groton was not a good school. My client and his family made it clear...
...unmarried partners, the MoD announced it would discuss a settlement with Homsi. She would not get the war widow's pension, says an MoD spokesman, but rather an "ex-gratia payment recognizing that in her case there are exceptional circumstances." Homsi's solicitor, Tom Reah, says that his client is still waiting to hear what the MoD might offer but notes that there are larger issues at stake. "Anna Homsi is concerned about herself, obviously," he says. "But she also wants to make sure that anyone else in her position is looked after properly." ? At this point, there...
...rest of us think, Oh, please, don't let him be black." Eddie-Callagain and two Japanese lawyers represent Woodland, who has pleaded not guilty and argues that the sex was consensual. Eddie-Callagain admits the politically charged atmosphere and the Japanese judicial system stack the odds against her client. "Here you're guilty until proved innocent," says Eddie-Callagain, who returned to Okinawa in 1995 to set up an independent practice after leaving the Air Force. "In Japan the criminal-justice system is run by prosecutors," she says. "Defense lawyers are just bystanders...