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Francis Xavier SC
Advocates The Podcast - January 19, 2022 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsInterested in going on a 3 month mountain climbing expedition, despite a busy schedule as a lawyer? Seremban-born, Francis Xavier SC gives you a step by step guide. We trek through Francis' early years handling criminal matters, maintaining a busy commerical practice in one of Singapore's larges...
Diana Buttu
Advocates The Podcast - January 06, 2022 03:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsAdvocates the Podcast looks to Palestine in this episode. We speak to Diana Buttu, a Canadian-Palestinian lawyer and advocate of Palestinian rights. Diana takes us through her experience working in the Negotiations Support Unit of the Palestinian Liberation Organization and describes the legal b...
Carlton Larson
Advocates The Podcast - December 22, 2021 16:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this instalment of Advocates the Podcast, we talk to Professor Carlton Larson, scholar of American constitutional law and Anglo-American legal history. In an unusual episode, Professor Larson describes how the Founding Fathers of America, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Wilson, were a...
Gobind Singh Deo
Advocates The Podcast - December 08, 2021 16:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsHow does one go from taking a car radiator apart to becoming an advocate? Gobind Singh Deo, prominent criminal advocate in Malaysia shares with Advocates the Podcast about just that. Gobind Singh Deo shares his journey of coming up as an advocate under the shadow of the Malaysian Internal Securi...
Helena Kennedy QC
Advocates The Podcast - November 17, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsOn this episode of Advocates the Podcast, we learn about how a young woman from Glasgow, Scotland became one of Britain's leading barristers. Baroness Helena Kennedy QC takes us back to the 70s, a time women were largely excluded from the legal profession in Britain. Listen to how she disrupted ...
Michael Kirby AC CMG
Advocates The Podcast - November 03, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWe welcome to this episode of Advocates The Podcast, Michael Kirby AC CMG, first openly gay judge and an intellectual powerhouse. After a career as a barrister, he went on to sit on the High Court of Australia, the highest court in the land.
Harish Salve QC
Advocates The Podcast - October 20, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this installment of Advocates The Podcast, we sit down with the former Solicitor General of India, Harish Salve QC. Harish is a familiar face in high profile cases having represented India before the International Court of Justice, Vodafone and even Bollywood heartthrob, Salman Khan. Intrigui...
Nancy Hollander
Advocates The Podcast - October 06, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWhat is it like to have Jodie Foster play you in a movie? Nancy Hollander, named America's Top 50 women litigators, says it is a very strange feeling. Nancy has spent her career taking on the U.S. Government including representing Mohamedou Ould Slahi who was held captive in Guantanamo Bay for 1...
Tan Sri Dato' V.C. George
Advocates The Podcast - September 22, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn our second episode, Tan Sri Dato' V.C. George. Malaysian legal legend and legendary wit. Having entered the profession in 1957, George gives us a lens into legal practice in early independent Malaya. Later in his career, George was among the first four judges appointed to the newly formed Co...
Lord Jonathan Sumption
Advocates The Podcast - September 08, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsLord Jonathan Sumption. First barrister in 60 years from the English Bar to be appointed directly to the highest court of the land in the United Kingdom. Enough said.
Jonathan Crow QC
Advocates The Podcast - May 06, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn our last episode of Advocates the Podcast (Season 1), we speak to Jonathan Crow QC. Jonathan Crow is an English litigator with almost 40 years of experience at the Bar. In 2006, Crow was appointed Queen’s Counsel, and has since built an award-winning career (Legal 500’s Top 100, Chambers UK C...
Ambiga Sreenevasan
Advocates The Podcast - April 22, 2021 00:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsFew in Malaysia command as much admiration as Ambiga Sreenevasan – admiration among her contemporaries as a skilled litigator, and among the public as a courageous political activist. Sreenevasan has served as President of the Malaysian Bar Council, co-chairperson of Bersih (an NG...
Johann Kriegler
Advocates The Podcast - April 07, 2021 23:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThis episode of Advocates stars Johann Kriegler, a veteran litigator at the Johannesburg Bar. In late 1993, Kriegler was assigned to direct the Independent Electoral Commission, the body responsible for overseeing South Africa’s first universally democratic election. A year later, Kriegler was a...
Eason Rajah QC
Advocates The Podcast - March 16, 2021 23:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIpoh-born English barrister Eason Rajah discusses life at boarding school, inspiring colleagues, and his thirst for winning, on this month’s instalment of Advocates, the Podcast. Appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2011, Rajah also acts as a Deputy High Court Judge and as Chairman of the...
Davinder Singh SC
Advocates The Podcast - March 03, 2021 01:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsEminent Singaporean litigator, Davinder Singh SC, outlines his philosophy and approach to advocacy on this month’s first episode of Advocates, the Podcast. After spending 37 years at Drew & Napier, one of Singapore’s leading law firms, Singh started his own firm in early 2019. Amo...
Robert Lazar
Advocates The Podcast - February 15, 2021 10:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsRobert Lazar is a litigator with more than forty years of experience at the Malaysian Bar. He represented former Supreme Court Justice Datuk Seri George Seah during the 1988 Judicial Crisis, appeared as lead counsel for the Bar during the 2008 Royal Commission of Inquiry into V.K. Lingam, and li...
Hina Jilani
Advocates The Podcast - February 01, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThe fourth episode of Advocates features Hina Jilani, an internationally-renowned litigator and activist from Lahore, Pakistan. Her brand of human rights advocacy is fierce and fearless, and has brought her face to face with death threats and assassins. Listen to Jilani discuss her career as a p...
Benjamin Aina QC
Advocates The Podcast - January 07, 2021 22:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsBenjamin Aina QC was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2009, and has established himself as a prominent criminal barrister in the United Kingdom as both a prosecutor and a defender. On this month’s episode of Advocates, Aina speaks about his childhood influences, his experience as a Bl...
Alan Dershowitz
Advocates The Podcast - December 09, 2020 11:11 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsAlan Dershowitz is renowned not only as a successful criminal defense attorney, but also as Professor Emeritus at Harvard Law School and as an award-winning author. Listen to Dershowitz discuss his legal philosophy, his activism, and the rest of his 60-year-long journey as an advocate.
Tommy Thomas
Advocates The Podcast - November 04, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsFormer Attorney General of Malaysia and distinguished veteran of the Malaysian Bar, Tommy Thomas, speaks about his meticulous approach to trial work, his legacy as an advocate, and the historical development of the Malaysian judicial system, on the inaugural episode of Advocates, ...
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