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Profile: Charles FRANCIS AM RFD QC
 
Born: 1924, Belgrave, Victoria  
Admitted to practice: 1948  
Signed Bar Roll: February 1949  
Took silk: 1969  
Retired: 2002  
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Biography: Charles Hugh Francis, BA, LLB, B.Com (Melbourne University) was born in 1924. He was a trial lawyer since 1949 and appointed a Queen’s Counsel in 1969. He was a former chairman of the Victorian Bar ... read more +  
   
Interview topics
  Choosing law
  Early years at the Bar
  Working from Selborne Chambers
  Solicitor-practitioners
  Ethics and the Bar - then and now
  An insane client
  A question of compensation
  Crime Passionel
  The Exorcist - in Horsham
  Thoughts on retirement
   
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