My 1 complaint to the LSRA (Legal Services Regulatory Authority)
I have had 1 complaint against me since I qualified as a solicitor in 2011. One complaint in ten years is not a bad record, I think it’s fair to say. That compl...
Category: Law
Witnessing wills from the car and spraying the €50 notes
I traveled out from my office yesterday, with my trusty secretary, to witness the signing of wills for a couple who are cocooning at home as a result of the Cov...
When I Was 23
When I was 23 I bought my first property. Since then I have bought and sold many others, perhaps as many as 17, but I have truthfully lost count. There have bee...
The same mistake over and over
No matter how many times I try to explain, no matter how many blog posts I write, no matter how many videos I make, people make the same mistake over and over: ...
Casuistry-descending into the particulars
I came across the notion of ‘casuistry’ this week for the first time. It was in an excellent podcast by Malcolm Gladwell who started off the discussion by first...
Chipping Away at the Rule of Law-When the Stream Becomes a River
The threat of lawlessness that is featuring in the news now with renewed threats on executives working in the former Sean Quinn group of companies along the bor...
Lawyers Persuading with Effective Word Pictures (and What You Can Learn)
If I was accused of murder I would hate to see Michael Bowman SC prosecuting me. Although if I had Bernard Condon SC defending my chances of acquittal would be ...
Why “Moral turpitude” Is Good
I came across a report in the newspaper this morning, a court report of a psychiatrist who had been struck off the medical register by the President of the High...
Fake Law and Pseudo Lawyers-Giving False Hope and Increasing Costs
One of the most frustrating types of person I have met since the great Irish property crash in 2007 is the person struggling with debts who will clutch at any s...
The Level of Folly Attained
The Law Society sends out, by email, a newsletter containing summaries of “Recent Supreme Court, Court of Appeal and High Court reserved written judgments”. I a...