Author Archives: Edward McGarr
Institutions
When will we have an investigation of the complicity (or ignorance, if such be the case) of our politicians, particularly our Ministers for Justice etc. during those years, in relation to those matters?
Judges’ Wigs
The real purpose is to assert wordlessly, the finality of rational adjudication from the judge. That is, it is intended to define rationality by reference to the wig; rationality emanates from the wig. Without it, there is doubt and possibly confusion.
Holiday Time
Holidays are problematic; do you take the pet with you?
What about your prostitute? Do you take her?
The Allegories of the Nile
There is, however, a human type that is radically intolerant of the mistakes of others. Alternatively, that type is inflexible in thought. Alternatively, these are human traits which some people have and others do not; and some people have both traits.
Mature Recollection
It is a surprising thing to encounter a witness who, in all honesty, believes that the evidence they are giving or proposing to give is the truth, when it is far from it.
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.
Daniels come to judgment
We learned little about them but their single-minded pursuit of money suggested things were not as they should be; and Mrs. Kennedy was complicit in it.
A Money Furnace
The government seems to have a furnace somewhere to dispose of old banknotes, such is their fondness, to the point of habit, for burning public funds.
Defeated already
But defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom. And above all of futility.”