Author Archives: Edward McGarr
Don’t vote for Fine Gael
Furthermore, Fine Gael should get out more.
Here’s your drug test, Minister…
Luckily for bookmakers, probability is not reliably intuitive. What is the value of a random drug test?
A cup of tea for Mr. Obama!
I suggest the true reason is very deep; candidate or no, Barack Obama is, essentially, on the wrong side of an asymmetric relationship. The State has and owns the information it took from him and feels no obligation to him for that. In short, the Privacy Act 1974, like all such provisions anywhere, is a sop.
Pleading the Belly
However, I look forward to the case where I inform a court that my client will so plead.
A good cog?
Who, in the name of goodness, does the UK Roads Authority use to write its contracts?
Don’t come back
In truth, neither the contractors nor the public authorities seeking tenders genuinely know what the costs of such projects are; the tenders are guesses.
A Centre of Excellence
The phrase is a stroke of dubious, comparative advertising genius and essentially, only a business consultant’s faddish phrase. After all, in what field do we establish a “Centre of Mediocrity��?? Or a “Centre of the Shoddy��??
Money, Money, Money
It is a principle of Irish (and UK) law that the purpose of the award of compensation by the courts is to, insofar as money can, place the injured party in the same position as if he/she had not been injured.
The Return of Whaling
I think I was too quick to venture an opinion on the Seroxat scandal.