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This is my fourth book and I write for pleasure and not for credentials. I have

enough college degrees and I am quite honestly my family's black sheep who
followed my own way and head sometimes to my detriment. However I never
failed a subject in five years at college and law school after that. Nor have I lost

a case during my time at the Justice Department (DA Office in American) which

only means I go to court very prepared. I likewise graduated from the school of
hard knocks along the way. Thus I dare say I do know what I am writing about
and will stand by my advice given in my books and or defend my views in any

court if needed. This does not make me very clever though. My ex-wives and

others these days (after reading my ramblings) take great delight to keep my
feet firmly on the ground. At least I know my limitations in life which is clever in

a way.

As an independent legal consultant I believe I am more able to speak my mind

than others. In my younger days I thought I could bend the rules as I please
and so I did. Always with the best of intentions of course but life simply don’t

work that way and the local law society kicked me out years ago for exactly that.
I deserved it even if it almost destroyed my life and I regret my actions which

led to it. It was really traumatic for a second generation lawyer as my family
have more lawyers than normal. It is rather ironic but only long haired liberals

and communists complain. Therefore my legal consultancy not a law office and I
do not call myself or pretend to be a practising attorney (lawyer in American)

though I was one for eight years and learned all the tricks. Since then I worked

as legal advisor all over Africa with different legal systems which makes me
cross jurisdictional expert (no big deal I assure you).

Academic discussion is most unwelcome to my clients and I suspect readers. I
always say it only have a place in lecture halls or at functions when you are

bored stiff and trying to impress your date (never worked for mine and my
American Patriot is much cleverer than me to begin with). Consequently we will

be practical in this book as we were in the previous ones. What you read here
happened in real life.

The law is neutral. You will hear me say this in every second page and I mean
simply it affects both sides equally or should. Anything which is unbalanced is

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