Tagged: barristers
- Thursday, November 19, 2009 By Edward McGarr
Grand Night
In the King’s Inns the students and Benchers of the Inns eat dinner in the Great Hall of the Inns during term time. Each student diner is supplied with beer and half a bottle of wine (or port). Each Bencher diner is also supplied with those drinks, and brandy or whiskey. In Ireland, every judge of the superior courts is a Bencher of the King’s Inns. In the King’s Inns the last Thursday of each term is “Grand Night”.
- Wednesday, December 3, 2008 By Edward McGarr
Wigs
I have never known of a solicitor to wear such a wig or to have been required to wear one. The same was not true of barristers. The Rules of the Superior Courts did require a barrister to wear such a wig. In other words, the Oireachtas had to intervene to prevent the Rules committee from persisting in that reuirement.
- Tuesday, October 14, 2008 By Edward McGarr
The New Legal Year 2
It cannot be true, however, that they have little or no confidence in their own lawyer; they hired him or her and would not have done so if they positively had no confidence in him or her. In any event it is probably misleading to use the term “confidence” in this context, something many clients would probably recognize intuitively. The emotion felt is probably closer to hope than anything else, or, in the case of very inexperienced clients, expectation. “Confidence” is something based on past experience; most clients have little experience of the legal system. What of a client accused of the offence of dangerous driving? How can his/her emotional state be said to be one of “confidence”, when the most positive outcome may, to the knowledge of the client, be one where public humiliation is attenuated by the lawyer speaking for the client, rather than snatching an acquittal from the situation?
- Monday, October 13, 2008 By Edward McGarr
The New Legal Year 1
Individual wrongdoing by a solicitor or a barrister implies little about any other lawyer. This is clearly the case where the wrongdoing consists of murder or armed robbery or dangerous driving. Even if it consists of mortgage fraud, it implies nothing about other lawyers. (Mortgage fraud may imply something about human nature, but lawyers, as such, are not accountable on that score). Mortgage fraud may indicate the desirability of having mortgage processing systems that will practically eliminate mortgage fraud.
- Monday, April 14, 2008 By Edward McGarr
Mr. Chairman
Presently, the new Chairman of the Bar Council will be known. So what; who cares? To be the Chairman of the Bar Council is to rise to obscurity, excepting the possibility of judicial preferment later, on the strength of its occupation. Yes, indeed, few people care, excepting the candidates and, possibly, their partners. The Bar Council of Ireland makes no reference to the Chairman on its website, unlike the Bar of England and Wales. That website gives at least one […]
- Wednesday, February 13, 2008 By Edward McGarr
Laconic speech
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You are advised to submit without further delay, for if I bring my army into your land, I will destroy your farms, slay your people, and raze your city.
- Monday, February 11, 2008 By Edward McGarr
Lawyers
If you are a lawyer, you stand between the abuse of governmental power and the individual.
- Monday, February 4, 2008 By Edward McGarr
Reds, Whites, Blues, Greens
It was a moment of pure (unfair) competition. The parties had struggled for three and a half days and now the judge had leaped into the forensic arena, cuffing the Defendant’s lawyers.