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Friday, May 18th, 2012

“Blocked Number” I usually never answer them but I was bored with what I was doing and (like you reading this!) curiosity got the better of me. So I felt an irresistible pull towards the bright shiny green button. “Hello, is this Florence?”; (Why do places like banks always call me Florence) [...]

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Wednesday, May 16th, 2012

I don’t know about you, but if I saw a tsunami coming, my first reaction would be to get out as far away as I could as fast as I could. The last thing I would do would be voluntarily put myself under it or worse again on top of it. But [...]

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Monday, October 24th, 2011

The idea of the Minister for Justice dismissing the views of 8 former attorneys general as “nonsense” is just, well, nonsense… I mean, I can understand one nut job speaking a bit of nonsense, but when there’s 8 of them from a variety of political backgrounds all saying the same thing, you’re [...]

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Saturday, October 22nd, 2011

The Examiner’s editorial this morning made me think, always dangerous! On the one hand it seems to take the position that because we have such strong and independent judges, they should be immune from influence by government if given direct control over their funding.  That is saying that because we have a [...]

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Saturday, October 22nd, 2011

I have just started reading Richard Susskind’s “The End of Lawyers”.  It’s a daunting prospect, not the book itself you understand, I am sure Mr Susskind is a fine writer, but the concept.  As a lawyer depending on my experience, skill and knowledge in my chosen profession for my livelihood, the end [...]

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Thursday, October 20th, 2011

Read Flor’s article on the upcoming referendums is in the current edition of the Cork Independent here. While the presidential election campaign has made X-factor seem low key, the two very serious constitutional referendums taking place on the same day have until recently slipped almost completely under the radar. . The first referendum is [...]

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Saturday, October 15th, 2011

One thing certain in life is change.  And there is no point in going on about a willingness to embrace or welcome change if whenever some actual changes are proposed we just don’t feel so hot about these particular changes right now.  At the same time we do not have to, and [...]

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Wednesday, October 12th, 2011

So the Legal Services Regulation Bill was finally published today after much anxious anticipation by the legal profession.  At first glance the biggest issue I can see in the Bill is the likely cost of regulation.  That cost is being levied on the legal profession, which may seem attractive to those outside [...]

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Sunday, October 9th, 2011

Saturday’s Irish Times gave me pause for thought.  In a front page article headlined “Coalition on track to secure victory in two referendums” political editor Stephen Collins concluded “Some politicians and lawyers have expressed reservations about the powers being given to committees.  But there has been no substantive public debate on the [...]

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