A man of many gifts who kept giving back

Updated June 16 2017 - 9:58pm, first published 7:55pm

Lawyers may come in for some glib criticism for being too clever or being paid too much, but Ballarat  lost a solicitor this week who showed what an old fashioned “pillar of the community” could be. In fact to define him by his profession would be to do Geoff Torrney a disservice. For much as many within the law would speak glowingly of him; the dozens he has mentored, the hundreds who relied on his sage advice, the thousands he has served well, it is outside the law that we begin to see how much Ballarat has lost.

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