PERTH silks Tom Percy and Mark Trowell have been contacted by Schapelle Corby's family to aid her appeal. Mr Percy QC was approached by Corby's cousin Melissa Younger after Friday's verdict. The Sunday Times can exclusively reveal that after her sentencing, Australian consular officials visited Corby in her cell and urged her to take up the offer of assistance from the respected lawyers, who were asked to help by Attorney-General Philip Ruddock. "We have still had no contact from any lawyer representing Schapelle Corby, but I have been contacted by her family," Mr Percy said yesterday in Bali. [continues 412 words]
It was a sad parade of suffering humanity. Wasted, wizened people fighting cancer, multiple sclerosis and other horrible diseases. Some in wheelchairs, others on crutches or walkers, some who could measure their remaining time on Earth in months, and of course we never got to see the ones who were simply too sick to make it down to the chambers of the Modesto City Council for the last two meetings in which this topic was discussed. These people use marijuana to ease nausea and to stimulate appetite; for them, nothing else works. They pleaded with the council not to shut down their local source; some told of being unable to get to Oakland to buy their pot because they were just too sick to drive anymore. [continues 414 words]
Northbriclge glad to see clinic go, says councillor DRUG treatment services are to be centralised in East Perth with a new $1 million methadone clinic to replace the overcrowded facility in Northbridge. Health Minister John Day said yesterday that long-standing complaints from Northbridge businesses about the William Street clinic was one reason behind the relocation. The clinic, which had been accused of attracting drug dealers to Northbridge's entertainment and restaurant precinct, was too small to handle the number of new cases. [continues 353 words]
