Crime and Absolution at the Court of McNally
In our official world, laws exist to protect the majority of people from a criminal minority, regardless of the colour of that minority's shirt collars. In the real world, taboos surround the bringing of all kinds of professionals to justice. I like the Gardai. They generally look after us, and they do so in an unthreatening and low-key way. They make mistakes, but at least we get to hear about them, and they are generally righted. The laws they enforce may only be meant to apply to the lower orders, but they cannot be disapplied from the powerful. This makes criminal law the only friend of anyone fighting corruption. Pressure will of course be put on the Gardai to protect the well connected, that is how the world works. If that fails, then the courts can be relied on to protect them. But let's soldier on and examine what I believe to be criminal behaviour in matters relating to our company over the past seven years. It was in or around early 2015 that a document in which ou...