The Triple Challenge

In August 1998 my 10-year-old son and I visited my friend and her family in Invercargill which is situated on the south coast of the South Island of New Zealand. The country around the town (now city) is exquisite and includes the famous beach where the movie, the Fastest Indian, was shot. We drove to Queenstown by the infamous Devils Highway which follows the edge…

Walking the Milford Track

Jun 22nd, 2020 Articles, Bush Walking, Bush Walking, Life, Nature Leon Davis 10 min read

In the early 1990’s I was convinced, by a New Zealand friend, that I should walk the Milford Track. The Milford Track consists of a 50 km walk conducted over four and a half days. The walk traverses some of the most pristine and unique country in the world. Visitors to the South Island of New Zealand can undertake the walk, guided or unguided. If…

Screenplay: Spencer Durak

May 10th, 2017 altheimers disease, Articles, Barrister, blackmail Leon Davis 1 min read

Spencer Durack is an original screenplay by Leon Davis. It concerns  a senior barrister, soon to be appointed a QC, who is concealing early onset Alzheimer’s disease. Desperate to conceal his illness, he is blackmailed to accept a difficult murder case, before a mysterious photograph appears that could gain his client an acquittal. But he is forced into the trial without permission to use it…