Tagged: lawyers

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.

Tuesday, December 14, 2010 By Edward McGarr

Legal Costs

In: Human Rights, Injuries Board, Legal profession, Personal Injury Claims, Politics, Professions, Solicitors
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Real justice would recognise the inequality of arms in this struggle. The formal equality of litigants is often illusory. Lawyers know this and act accordingly.

Wednesday, August 4, 2010 By Edward McGarr

Trouble

In: Legal profession, Solicitors
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She was defending her cousin on a dangerous dog prosecution but had to be escorted from court after kissing a solicitor, swearing at an usher and insulting the prosecutor while “fortified” with brandy.

Monday, April 19, 2010 By Edward McGarr

The Prosecutor

In: Criminal Law, Human Rights, Legal profession, Politics
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Under the Prosecution of Offences Act 1974 most criminal prosecutions are in the charge of the Director of Public Prosecutions (“DPP”). Some offences are assigned to other legal persons (e.g. Government Ministers) for processing in prosecution by the statute under which they are created. In fact most criminal prosecutions are brought by members of the Garda Siochana in the name of the DPP. Before the 1974 act the prosecutor was the Attorney General. Consequently, it was, before 1974, a social […]

Tuesday, March 30, 2010 By Edward McGarr

Yes, Boss!

In: Practice & Procedure
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Call the judge “Judge” (unless he/she is the Chief Justice (or the President of the High Court)).

Thursday, March 18, 2010 By Edward McGarr

Accident: Frequency (The Law of Averages)

In: Injuries Board, Negligence, Personal Injury Claims, PIAB- The Injuries Board, Tort
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Road traffic accidents are common, but we rarely witness them happening. If we made a judgment of their frequency based on our experience, we would be wrong.

Thursday, February 25, 2010 By Edward McGarr

Souvenir Land

In: Conveyancing
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It is surprising that NAMA’s business plan has overlooked the possibilities of souvenir land sales.

Monday, January 11, 2010 By Edward McGarr

Suggestive

In: Practice & Procedure
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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. This is called “putting” the case to the witness. The witness will have the presumed opportunity to comment on the “case” of the advocate’s witnesses.

Tuesday, January 5, 2010 By Edward McGarr

Shut up, Fintan!

In: Politics
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Few people know the source or sources of the ideas they use to prop up their speech, not to speak of their lives. To take everything they might say as defining them perfectly is just wrong.

Wednesday, November 12, 2008 By Edward McGarr

Business is Business

Under the Regulations, the plaintiff client will become liable for fees only if he/she:

a) fails to co-operate with the legal representative;

b) fails to attend any medical or expert examination or court hearing which the legal representative reasonably requests him to attend;

c) fails to give necessary instructions to the legal representative; or

d) withdraws instructions from the legal representative.