Speaker Gordon Murphy

Rotary club of Stirling meeting of 3rd October 2019.

President Sandy Farquharson welcomed three visitors to our Thursday evening meeting, Mike McCormack president of the Carse of Stirling, Nanette Thomson and Isabel Morrison wives of two of our members.  The Gavel competition will be held on Friday 18th October.

Our speaker, one of our own members, recently retired Gordon Murphy had intended to talk about retirement but on reflection decided that it was too soon to know how it would work out. Instead he drew on his years of experience as a lawyer, in particular advice to clients. Be careful was his most important advice, about what you say, what you tell other people. Don't send texts on the subject of your offence to anyone, don't commit anything to writing unless you really have to. In general, say as little as possible and make sure anything you do say does not contradict anything you have said previously. Honesty is always the best policy, better to admit a minor error than to be caught out later and judged dishonest. Gordon illustrated all this most amusingly from cases he had been involved in, not always politically correct but showing the reality of appearing of appearing in court and the many unexpected turns a case might take. As always stories from real life beat fiction.

Our next meeting Friday 11th October, VP Alan Bradshaw in the chair, a fellowship meeting, Lilian McGeoch visitor's host.

Ian Richardson