Sad news for the club with the passing of Mark Griffin QC who has lead our Tribunal team for most of the period since lawyers were allowed into the AFL Tribunal in 2005.
The club will mark his passing by wearing black armbands in R2 v Adelaide (the Prison Bar Showdown). Marks’s son, Matthew, who is only 17 will toss the coin.
Mark was a very accomplished advocate who not only assisted the club at the Tribunal but also has assisted a number of players who got into trouble outside the footy field. If he wasn’t Adelaide’s best criminal lawyer, he was in the top 3. He figured in a series of high profile cases including representing Von Einem.
He volunteered his time to Port for more than a decade. Tribunal work is pretty thankless as your success or failure rarely depends on the strength of your case or how it’s presented- just ask Toby Greene. But at least with Mark at the helm, we knew failures weren’t due to the quality of advocacy.
Mark was only 62 and battled a genetic liver condition all his life. He had a transplant 13 years ago which bought him more time. If you want to know more about Mark, he was the front page story in the Adelaide Review (or whatever it’s called) magazine, in the Saturday Advertiser a few weeks back.
Mark was a champion person.
Mark’s funeral was yesterday and his coffin had on it 3 things- a letter from his son, his barrister’s wig and a Port scarfe.
Vale Mark.
The club will mark his passing by wearing black armbands in R2 v Adelaide (the Prison Bar Showdown). Marks’s son, Matthew, who is only 17 will toss the coin.
Mark was a very accomplished advocate who not only assisted the club at the Tribunal but also has assisted a number of players who got into trouble outside the footy field. If he wasn’t Adelaide’s best criminal lawyer, he was in the top 3. He figured in a series of high profile cases including representing Von Einem.
He volunteered his time to Port for more than a decade. Tribunal work is pretty thankless as your success or failure rarely depends on the strength of your case or how it’s presented- just ask Toby Greene. But at least with Mark at the helm, we knew failures weren’t due to the quality of advocacy.
Mark was only 62 and battled a genetic liver condition all his life. He had a transplant 13 years ago which bought him more time. If you want to know more about Mark, he was the front page story in the Adelaide Review (or whatever it’s called) magazine, in the Saturday Advertiser a few weeks back.
Mark was a champion person.
Mark’s funeral was yesterday and his coffin had on it 3 things- a letter from his son, his barrister’s wig and a Port scarfe.
Vale Mark.
