Lessons in Leprechaun Law
[The judgments can be accessed through courts.ie Click on Find a Judgment, put in Dully and pick one] The Court of Appeal judgment in this case was dropped on December 17th. It is a shameful thing. It is also more than a little sad, at least for the beneficiaries. The beneficiaries in these rigged cases are already deprived of the relief and exultation which go with winning in what should be close to life threatening circumstances. With this one, they are deprived as well of the communal duper's delight which normally bonds them, because they're not fooling anyone. I used to believe that as long as we kept plugging away, we would reach a point past which (past the suppression of evidence, planting of documents, losing of witnesses, embezzlement of security, tricks with procedure, tricks of presentation, endless lies) the judges would be forced to step in order to protect the integrity of the institutional court...