Feeling Lousy
No, this post is not about hangovers.
Criminal Behaviour?
The Minister’s mode of expression is a “first strike” in a blame game where the Minister’s antagonists are weak and disparate and their work is obscure to most citizens.
Narrative
So, that’s what we need lawyers for; to write the pleadings and affidavits of the litigants and to make sense of the world.
IMF- the future on legal costs
Ireland is a small place; we should be temperate in our comments because we may offend where no offence is meant and our reduced “degrees of separation” makes the comment fester.
Cooking
Even so, we should not forget that Taoiseach Brian Cowen and Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan are both lawyers (and it doesn’t get more centralised than where they are) and there is, or was, (this writer thinks) no checklist in the world that would have prevented them from wrecking the Irish economy.
Dud Judge
Finally, if there exists a Judicial Review list in the High Court consisting of cases from the work of one judge, is it not time to look at the judge, as well as his errors?
The Prosecutor
Under the Prosecution of Offences Act 1974 most criminal prosecutions are in the charge of the Director of Public Prosecutions (“DPP”).
Suggestive
It is an obligation of an advocate, in cross-examination, to convey to the witness the evidence the advocate intends to adduce to rebut the evidence of the witness.
Shut up, Fintan!
Few people know the source or sources of the ideas they use to prop up their speech, not to speak of their lives.