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"HIS HONOUR: Mr Jardim, withdraw that comment immediately.
MR JARDIM: Your Honour, I'm not withdrawing it because it's got nothing to do with the merits of this case, just as your small-minded treatment of my client has got nothing to do with the merits of the case. I mean, could you have cocked this thing up any worse? Bloody helpless kid and you know she's back out on the street now. You're known throughout the state as a heartless old prick and a drunk, and seeing I've gone this far, your daughter-in-law's appointment to the court is widely viewed as a grubby political payoff. Today's pretty much the lowest I've seen you stoop but it's been a rich field of excrem—
HIS HONOUR: Senior, will you have Mr Jardim removed?
Charlie Jardim has just trashed his legal career in a spectacular courtroom meltdown, and his girlfriend has finally left him. So when a charitable colleague slings him a prosecution brief that will take him to the remote coastal town of Dauphin, Charlie reluctantly agrees that the sea air might be good for him.
The case is a murder. The victim was involved in the illegal abalone trade and the even more illegal drug trade. And the witnesses aren't talking.
And as Dauphin closes ranks around him, Charlie is about to find his interest in the law powerfully reignited." (Publisher's blurb)
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Dedication: For Lilly, who makes everything possible and all of it fun.
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What I’m Reading
2017
single work
column
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2017; -
Review : Quota
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Good Reading , September 2014; (p. 43)
— Review of Quota 2014 single work novel -
Justice Measures up down by the Beach
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 2 August 2014; (p. 36)
— Review of Quota 2014 single work novel -
Dodgy Dealing in Small-Town Dauphin
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 19 July 2014; (p. 22)
— Review of Quota 2014 single work novel
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Dodgy Dealing in Small-Town Dauphin
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 19 July 2014; (p. 22)
— Review of Quota 2014 single work novel -
Justice Measures up down by the Beach
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 2 August 2014; (p. 36)
— Review of Quota 2014 single work novel -
Review : Quota
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Good Reading , September 2014; (p. 43)
— Review of Quota 2014 single work novel -
What I’m Reading
2017
single work
column
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2017;