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Irish judge goes on trial: is it time to modernise the legal profession here?

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  • #32
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    Barristers & Judges are the last defenders of human rights in Ireland. They deserve their power.
    Dionysus wrote: »
    I may have overlooked it but it appears this story has not reached Afterhours:


    Judge accused of inducing couple to sign will

    Judge to stand trial accused of deceiving elderly couple

    Not surprising for a profession which invariably equates the defence of "justice" with the defence of the position (i.e. ridiculously undeserved salaries and unjustified status) of barristers and judges in Irish society. Like the Roman Church, all members of the judiciary in Ireland, and the sycophantic barristers who support them, need to be dragged into the fact that this state is a republic and the old days of wigs, titles and a variety of arse activity that symbolised the pomp and ceremony of British rule are over.

    It't time the political class brought the judiciary and barristers in this republic into line with the values of a democratic republic and forced them to abandon their cult dining "tradition", wigs and of course the price fixing, the necessity for a solicitor and junior counsel and much else which is designed to screw the Irish public and enrich barristers and their buddies who have recently been appointed judges in this republic (some judges, like Paul Carney, appear to be oblivious to the fact that this is a democratic republic)

    Democratic Republic? And you can't get a drink when you're thirsty? :(

    In 1991 he was appointed to the High Court and as presiding judge of the Central Criminal Court. Within a year he was embroiled in controversy, accused of handing down lenient sentences to two rapists, including the perpetrator in the Kilkenny incest case. Soon afterwards he was arrested outside the Shelbourne hotel, in Dublin, in the early hours of a Sunday morning as he tried to get inside for an after-hours drink. He later apologised to hotel staff. Friends suggested the incident was the result of the stress he was suffering.

    Perhaps cranium constriction by the headgear :D


  • #33
    Kevin Duffy
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    Dionysus wrote: »
    Bingo. And that is the problem. This state is allowing the very organisation responsible for protecting the interests of barristers and solictors - the Bar Council and Law Society respectively - to set the rules for members of that profession who operate under the laws of this republic and in the public courtrooms of this republic. It defies belief that in 2011 an Irish person, who in the vast, vast majority of cases will have republican beliefs, can go to the High Court of this republic and they could lose their case because their barristers do not wear British-style wigs and gowns. That's a joke. That's far, far too much power in the hands of unelected people such as Judge Paul Carney. And yet this state refuses to put the judges and barristers of this republic in their place and legislate against this sort of profoundly unrepublican carry-on.

    Eh, come again??


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