Oh Mary ... Please Do Something

 


I wasn't aware of Judge Mary Irvine before she heard the security for costs hearing against our company on January 25th 2019. Reading about her since has convinced me that she is a person of integrity. She has been strong in pushing for much lower awards in insurance cases i.e. challenging the power of the barristers. Which I assume is why both senior counsels challenged her authority that day in the Court of Appeal. She slapped down our counsel quite readily, but seemed intimidated by the plaintiff's counsel. 

When it came to reading out her order, she looked me in the eye for a fair length of time. I am certain that, having presumably read my struck out affidavit, she was trying to say ''I know what's going on here, I'm sorry but there is nothing I can do''. I was delighted when she was made President of the High Court. But she was wrong. I don't care what is permitted or appropriate to her new position. A good person can always do something. 


 
















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