‘Like a wild animal’: Lawyers in heated spat over a sandwich and a courthouse meeting room

‘Like a wild animal’: Lawyers in heated spat over a sandwich and a courthouse meeting room

Two criminal lawyers have clashed over whether a sandwich should have been eaten in an interview room with allegations flying between both sides as to how...

Australian National Review - Stoush Over a Sandwich Lands 2 Lawyers in Hot Water

One wanted to eat their sandwich; the other wanted the room for a meeting. The argument went all the way to NZ’s Legal Complaints Review Officer. New Zealand’s Legal Complaints Review Officer (LCRO) Fraser Goldsmith has had to adjudicate a spat between two criminal lawyers over whether a sandwich should have been eaten in an interview room, with allegations from both sides about how the other behaved, and who said what to whom. He was required …