It should be a relatively straightforward principle that lawyers can not simultaneously represent both parties in a case. In this instance, the Attorney General’s day job is to represent the State. And his nixer is to represent Independent News and Media against the state
Two men remanded in custody will remain in prison after they refused to vacate a Roscommon house and farm in dispute before the courts.
The publication, last evening, of letters between the Chief Justice, Frank Clarke, and Mr. Justice Seamus Woulfe, in which Clarke tells Woulfe that, in his opinion, Woulfe should resign, have caused a major political headache for the Government. On the one hand, the politics of this situation are fairly straightforward: Woulfe is a villain, who […]
The so-called “homicidal girl” who is at risk of being released into the public in the next few days had the authenticity of her change of gender questioned by two separate experts, court documents reveal. The media has been precluded, by a court order, from reporting on the fact that the “girl” in question is […]
“If you are a pauper, yes. If you are a millionaire, yes. But if you are a middle-class person on a middle-class salary, litigation in the High Court is ruinous.” These were the words of Mr Justice Kelly as he assumed the chairmanship of the Review of the Administration of Civil Justice in 2018. He […]
Yes, this would be the same Michael Lowry who, according to the Moriarty Tribunal, made untrue statements in the course of its investigation, which found that he corruptly secured the largest single contract in the history of the state for Denis O’Brien, and received bribes for doing so. Still, it is never too late to […]