Author Archives: Edward McGarr
All’s fair in love and war
I have written elsewhere that legal proceedings are not a search for truth. Nevertheless, in legal proceedings, as in war, there are limits to restrain the parties.
Yes I did! No you did’nt!
Even in the midst of happiness there is dissatisfaction.
Private Investigators
Exemptions aside, anyone who âconducts investigationsâ? for a client, for remuneration is required to have a licence.
When did you stop beating your wife?
Giving evidence carries risk.
Circumstantial evidence
There is a perception that circumstantial evidence is inferior to direct evidence. That perception is wrong but its articulation often conceals a deeper problem; the ability to understand the relationship of one fact to another fact is a variable and is dependent on the discovery of that factual relationship, by society, and, fortuitously, intelligence in the individual to make the discovery his/her own.
Back Injury
The Minister did make specific provision by regulation for the duties of employers to avoid injury to employees in the lifting of weights and loads.
Quarries
The Minister has issued guidelines to the planning authorities on quarries. The guidelines emphasise that âregistrationâ? does not authorise an unauthorised development.
Criminal Legal Aid
The court found that as a matter of probability, a defendant will be afforded a fair trial in summary proceedings in the District Court while represented solely by a solicitor.
Yahoo!
Jerry Yang of Yahoo did not need to read the judgment of the House of Lords in Walford v Miles (1992) 2 AC 128 to appreciate the principles of commercial negotiations.
Case Management is here
Judicial Case Management is a system designed to identify and define issues in dispute and to reduce delays, costs and unnecessary pre-trial activities.