Once Bitten, Twice Fined

This lively book is an account of Graeme Pagan’s encounters and experiences in over forty years of legal practice in Oban. It is a lively mixture of the humorous and the sad, the significant and the trivial, the intentional and the serendipitous and paints an entertaining and informative picture of the life in this beautiful part of western Scotland. Graeme Pagan was involved professionally with an enormously wide range of cases in his long and varied career. But this is not a book just for those interested in the law; it is full of human interest and the peculiarities of life in the Highlands and Islands. Here he includes stories about accident enquiries, court room anecdotes, and some cautionary tales of divorce and family law from less enlightened times, including the hilarious tale of the Brigadier who wanted to divorce a woman who was not his wife. . half; the man who was assaulted by a ferret, and how the author accidentally ended up on the catwalk while on the way to a session at the Edinburgh Jazz Festival. On a more serious note, Graham Pagan also relates incidents from his political activism, his work in support of various charities, and his campaigning to provide affordable housing for local people. Graeme Pagan says of his motivation to write: ‘I have been lucky and privileged in many ways and I hope my experiences can help or entertain others, perhaps both. I think it would be a waste to take those experiences to the grave. I have never believed they were intended only for me.’ In this book he shares some of the more memorable, revealing a keen intelligence and a remarkable zest for life.