“Dr. Livingstone, I infer?
Henry Stanley got things wrong when he met Dr.
Sack the Minister
When the Food Safety Authority of Ireland tested a range of Irish frozen beef burgers, purchased from Irish and British supermarkets, it found evidence that they contained horse meat and/or pig meat.
Talk to the Hand!
“It has become a growing practice for solicitors acting for parties in cases before the courts (and, I would venture to suggest, in particular, the Commercial Court) to copy correspondence to the court.
Flying a Balloon?
The Gardaí have had a history of their own difficulties with search warrants and the like.
Contests
If the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico happened in Irish waters who would be held responsible?
You Know What I Mean…
Readers will have seen reference HERE to a plea in a medical negligence case as to the meaning of a “consent” signed by the patient (who was having an operation to make her sterile).
Accident: Frequency (The Law of Averages)
Road traffic accidents are common, but we rarely witness them happening.
The Viewing
From an evidential point of view this is equivalent to looking at the murder weapon in a criminal trial, or looking at a large machine which cannot be brought to court with convenience.
Appearances
Here in Ireland, if there were to be a reprise of that struggle we can not be sure that the courts’ response might not be equally inadequate.
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.
Apropos Daniels, again
This blog is settled in the view that the current fashion of requiring minimal discovery of records/documentation in the course of litigation is mistaken.