Legal profession
Goodbye, Bill
Everywhere would have the benefits of an aesthetic and economical approach to computing. Unlike Bill Gatesâ system, one would not encounter a âcounter-intuitiveâ? element in an interface.
Read Me
We have to stop working every now and then. I read the Sherlock Holmes body of work a long time ago, but the classics never die and so I have made reference to Sherlock Holmes HERE and perhaps have given the impression that a life in the law is a life in crime or close to it (by and large, it is not; think of Kenneth Starr whose natural habitat was in corporate law and Government administration). What might a […]
No!
Ireland has previously cast a veto (in the EU Council of Ministers) and it was denied that it had that effect.
A Laughing Stock
Now, we risk being the laughing stock of Australia (and the UK in due course) because none of our lawyers have sold shares in themselves.
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.
Everything comes out in the end
Consequently, we favour those people when we seek to have âtruthsâ? suppressed or ignored. They are the ideal candidates for appointment to be judges, for instance.
My Attorney General, Bernie
Reading of Lord Goldsmithâs interventions in the BAE scandal brings to mind Blossom Dearieâs rendition of âMy Attorney Bernieâ?. Here are the words, but itâs essential to hear Blossom singing it to appreciate it. My Attorney Bernie (Words and Music by Dave Frishberg) I’m impressed, with my attorney Bernie I’m impressed, with his influential friends He’s got very big connections and I follow his directions Bernie knows his way around and so I always do what Bernie recommends. I am […]
Que sera, sera
Irish lawyers, arguably, are in denial.
An Unpleasant Discovery
hat some members of the Irish High Court currently make orders for the provision of, effectively, “general discovery�? is superior anecdotal evidence to the reflections flowing from Brooks Thomas Ltd. V Impac Ltd. [1999] 1 I.L.R.M. They prefer to do justice than to respect a dubious proposition simply because it is in a statutory instrument.