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"... we were informed by what was described as a decent High Court
Register that there were as little as five uncorrupt Judges operating in the
Four Courts"
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so judges believed to "operate" there (for who
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Plenty
of law, plenty of lawyers, and little or no justice for many
by W. Finnerty. Sun Aug 19,
2007 17:26
Vincent Salafia (Fri Aug
17, 2007 18:31 above),
Though you
obviously have not yet had a chance to reply to my posting at
Sat Aug 18,
2007 20:51 above, I would at this stage like to point out some other
information I recently came across to you.
This additional
information relates to a
PUBLIC MEETING I attended in
Northern
Ireland (at
Omagh, County Tyrone) last Thursday evening
(i.e.
August 16th 2007).
The main purpose of
this meeting apparently, was to help the "
VICTIMS OF IRISH SOLICITORS" -
as stated on one of the "handouts" provided at the
meeting.
Readers (outside Ireland) not familiar with
the word "
solicitor" can (I believe) safely take it to mean "a lawyer who
advises clients on matters of law", although in practice solicitors in Ireland
frequently do a limited range of other legal jobs besides, such as drawing up
wills, drawing up and processing legal documents relating to home / land sales,
and so on.
Last Thursday's meeting was very well
attended, and the numbers present far exceeded what I personally had
anticipated.
Before and after the meeting began I had the
opportunity to talk informally with several of the people who attended this
event which was held in a fairly large hotel (named
The Silver Birch
Hotel).
Without exception, ALL of the several people
I spoke with appeared to be perfectly reasonable, normal, and decent people;
and, all apparently have had truly shocking experiences at the hands of lawyers
(of one kind or another): some of which they related during the course of this
public meeting.
Invariably, and as in my own particular case,
all of the very severe problems with the legal profession spoken of seem to
drag on, and on, and on, and without any hope of an
"
effective remedy" in sight.
At one point
during the meeting, one of the "
Top Table" speakers pointed out
that their organisation had lost a number of its members during the past 12
months through
SUICIDE - as a direct result of the unresolved legal
problems they were struggling with.
In so far as I could
judge, both sections of the community (
Protestant and Catholic)
were well represented at last Thursday's meeting, and the problems aired during
the meeting were very definitely related to lawyers operating in
BOTH of
the legal jurisdictions on the
Island of Ireland: i.e.
the
Northern Ireland (part of the United Kingdom) jurisdiction,
and the
Republic of Ireland jurisdiction. (Many of those in
attendance were from the Republic of Ireland, and at least one had come from as
far south as Kerry.)
In the course of relating the
difficulties these people claim to have experienced at the hands of lawyers, the
use of words and phrases such as "
ruthless", "
vicious",
"
callous beyond belief", and "
totally unbelievable" were
frequently used.
However, and without wishing in any
way to distract from the above,
the thing about last Thursday's meeting which
REALLY concerns me just now, and the
main reason I'm
posting this item on
Indymedia (Ireland) today, relates to
another piece of text from the same "handout" (mentioned above), which reads as
follows:
"... we were informed by what was described
as a decent High Court Register that there were as little as five uncorrupt
Judges operating in the 'Four Courts' (Dublin)" - out of a total of
40 or so, as I was later told by one of the meeting's
organisers.
I genuinely hope, FOR ALL OUR SAKES, that you and
all of the other members of your
legal team who helped you with
your
High Court constitutional challenge in early
2006 (presided over by
Mr Justice Thomas Smyth), and
relating directly to the constitutionality of our "
National Monuments
(Amendment) Act 2004", which of course remains
COMPLETELY
UNRESOLVED in spite of the
600,000 EUROS taxpayers
(including myself) have had to fork-out to date, will take very careful note of
what I am attempting to relate in all of my several postings on this particular
Indymedia thread.
As I understand it, and please
correct me on this thread if I've got anything wrong, the legal team you used
for your National Monuments (Amendment) Act 2004 challenge in the early part of
2006 consisted of constitutional law expert
Dr Gerard Hogan SC (Senior
Council / Barrister),
Frank Callanan SC, and
Colm MacEochaidh
BL.
Last but not least, a few minutes ago I took a look
at a web site address which is also provided on the same "handout" I have
mentioned above (the web site address in question is
http://www.crookedlawyers.com/ ), and, indirectly
through another web site address found there, I came across the following piece
of text:
"As crooked as ivy climbing up an oak. Has been
involved in some pretty dodgy deals with individuals whom he has since dropped
as clients...things were getting too hot. Has tucked his head back into his
shell in the past couple of years. But the mean streak is still there, plays
dirty and is dirty. Definitely no Rumpole." (Full text at
http://www.rate-your-solicitor.com/index.php?section=details&id=11185 .)
Though
I have not looked through them carefully, there appears to be several other
similar complaints - all relating to
NAMED solicitors PLEASE
NOTE.
Thankfully though, and I genuinely do find this VERY
encouraging for the future, not all of the comments relating to individual
lawyers at the "
Rate Your Solicitor" Internet address above are by any
means negative.
Related Link: http://www.constitutionofireland.com ====================================
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above text has been copied from the following
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