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Charity bans Arthur Cox from making donations
A cancer charity has banned Irish firm Arthur Cox from giving it donations.

The Irish Cancer Society accepted €20,000 from Arthur Cox in 2013 and the same again in 2014. But it has said it will not accept a single Euro more from the firm because of its work for Japan Tobacco, the purveyor of Camels, Benson & Hedges, Silk Cut and Hamlet cigars.

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Arthur Cox is acting for the tobacco giant in a fight with the Irish government to prevent legislation which would require plain cigarette packaging. Unfortunately for the firm's CSS bona fides, the charity says its sterling work for the deathstick merchant means Arthur Cox has a slight "conflict with the society's mission". And while helping cancer sufferers by using the same money they once paid Japan Tobacco to get cancer may be elegant, the society says it will "now decline any offer" of a corporate donation from its former donor.

Arthur Cox declined to comment because its spokesman was undergoing a laryngectomy. But RollOnFriday would like the firm to know that it will happily take its money and promises to spend it all on smokes, and booze.
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Comments

Anonymous 27 February 15 11:22

This seems like ridiculous posturing from the charity to me. What does it matter where the money has come from when they have the opportunity to use it for a good cause? It also seems quite a childish understanding of the legal services industry if they really feel that Arthur Cox should have to choose between donating money to cancer charities and turning down a substantial paying client.

Anonymous 27 February 15 13:41

This seems like ridiculous posturing from the charity to me. What does it matter where the money has come from when they have the opportunity to use it for a good cause? It also seems quite a childish understanding of the legal services industry if they really feel that Arthur Cox should have to choose between donating money to cancer charities and turning down a substantial paying client.