Tagged: barristers
- Friday, January 3, 2014 By Edward McGarr
Feeling Lousy
No, this post is not about hangovers. It’s about evidence. Ideas as to what is evidence have varied, somewhat, over time. (SPOILER ALERT) For instance, “Murder comes to Pemberley” by P. D. James, features a trial scene. Mr. Wickham, a character from Jane Austen’s “Pride & Prejudice” is on trial for murder. The implied date of the trial is approximately 1804. The UK lacked a police force at that time. The local magistrate has performed the police function and he […]
- Thursday, December 8, 2011 By Edward McGarr
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.
- Wednesday, December 7, 2011 By Edward McGarr
Santa’s Grotto
- In: Accidents at Work*, Injuries Board, Legal profession, Personal Injury Claims, Politics
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Sure, he was independent of the judge, but whose spokesperson was he?
- Friday, November 11, 2011 By Edward McGarr
Answer That
There are some charges you just can’t beat; being a pig must be one.
- Monday, November 7, 2011 By Edward McGarr
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.
- Friday, October 14, 2011 By Edward McGarr
Counsel
This is the body that ensures that Ireland has no provision for launching class actions;
- Monday, June 27, 2011 By Edward McGarr
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.
- Tuesday, June 7, 2011 By Edward McGarr
Conventional Wisdom
We don’t know. The reason we don’t know is that it has not been considered. The question is not one of fact; it is an issue to be decided by Irish society. Irish society has decided the issue already and that is reflected in the status quo. The status quo is this; a civil trial in Ireland is a contest and counsel for the parties will and does decide what and how much evidence should be adduced in a trial.
- Thursday, May 26, 2011 By Edward McGarr
We have Counsel’s Opinion!
- In: Contract Law, UK Court
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Sometimes, counsel’s opinion is just plain wrong. Of course, sometimes clients get what they insist on having.
- Friday, December 24, 2010 By Edward McGarr
Cooking
- In: Misc, Politics, Solicitors
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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.