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Download Bar Review Volume 21 THE BAR Volume 21 Number 2 REVIEWJournal of The Bar of Ireland April 2016 Unlawful detention CONTENTS The Bar Review The Bar of Ireland Distillery Building 145-151 Church Street Dublin DO7 WDX8 Direct: +353 (0)1 817 5166 Fax: +353 (0)1 817 5150 Email: [email protected] Web: www.lawlibrary.ie EDITORIAL BOARD 45 Editor Eilis Brennan BL Eileen Barrington SC 66 Gerard Durcan SC Eoghan Fitzsimons SC Niamh Hyland SC Brian Kennedy SC Patrick Leonard SC Paul Anthony McDermott SC Sara Moorhead SC Brian R Murray SC James O'Reilly SC Mary O'Toole SC Mark Sanfey SC 56 Claire Bruton BL Diane Duggan BL Claire Hogan BL Grainne Larkin BL Mark O'Connell BL Thomas O'Malley BL Ciara Murphy, Director Shirley Coulter, Director, Comms and Policy Vanessa Curley, Law Library Deirdre Lambe, Law Library Rose Fisher, PA to the Director Tom Cullen, Publisher Paul O'Grady, Publisher PUBLISHERS Published on behalf of The Bar of Ireland 54 59 48 by Think Media Ltd Editorial: Ann-Marie Hardiman Paul O’Grady Colm Quinn Message from the Chairman 44 Interview 56 Design: Tony Byrne Tom Cullen Moving on Ruth O’Sullivan Editor's note 45 Niamh Short Advertising: Paul O’Grady Law in practice 59 News 45 Commercial matters and news items relating Damages for unlawful judicial jailing 59 to The Bar Review should be addressed to: Launch of Bar of Ireland 1916 exhibition Controlling the market 62 Paul O’Grady Bar of Ireland Transition Year Programme The Bar Review Report from The Bar of Ireland Annual Conference 2016 The Battle of the Four Courts, 1916 66 Think Media Ltd The Malthouse, 537 NCR, Dublin DO1 R5X8 News feature 50 Obituaries 69 Tel: +353 (0)1 856 1166 Fax: +353 (0)1 856 1169 Women's issues? Amy O'Donoghue BL 69 Email: [email protected] Web: www.thinkmedia.ie The Honourable Mr Justice Adrian Hardiman 70 Law in practice 54 www.lawlibrary.ie Ask and you will receive? Closing argument 71 Views expressed by contributors or Legal Update ix A world-class system? correspondents are not necessarily those of The Bar of Ireland or the publisher and neither The Bar of Ireland nor the publisher accept any Papers and editorial items should be addressed to: responsibility for them. Rose Fisher at: [email protected] THE BAR REVIEW : Volume 21; Number 2 – April 2016 43 MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRMAN Remembering a legal giant The death of Mr Justice Hardiman has overshadowed many of the recent events in the law community. I write this issue’s column as we are all still reeling from the sudden and grossly number of our (younger) male colleagues to participate, but also managed to premature death of Mr Justice Adrian Hardiman on March 7 last. Many tributes extract more than ¤14,500 from members for the Bar Benevolent Society. have been paid to Adrian in the days since then, most noticeably by President The Bar of Ireland Conference on the theme ‘Trial by Media’ in Kilkenny on Michael D. Higgins and by the Chief Justice. No one who was present will April 8 and 9 proved to be a great success and attracted widespread, positive forget the crowds that attended at Fanagans Funeral Home on Aungier Street media coverage. The speakers were learned and had strong opinions to impart where his body lay in repose on March 9, or the remarkable serenity that was which made for compelling sessions. We are very grateful to everyone involved evident at his funeral mass and at Mount Jerome on March 10, or the in its organisation and delivery. wonderful homily delivered by Fr Myles O’Reilly at his funeral mass, or indeed the heartfelt eulogy given by his great friend Michael McDowell SC. A Strong international links wonderful obituary of Adrian written by another of his great friends, Paul On the international front, the Council has continued to develop links with O’Higgins SC, appears in this edition of The Bar Review. He truly was the lawyers’ groups abroad with a view to providing work and educational leading advocate of his generation at the Bar and one of Ireland’s finest jurists opportunities for members of The Bar of Ireland. A number of events are and judges, as well as being a great man. Our deepest sympathies go out to planned for the coming months in co-operation with the New York State Bar his wife Yvonne, his sons Eoin, Hugh and David, his brother Fergal and all of Association, the Irish American Bar Association of New York, and the European their family. May he rest in peace. Circuit of the Bar of England and Wales. The World Bar Conference took place in Edinburgh on April 14-17, 2016. Grainne Larkin BL spoke at the event, and Outstanding events I chaired a session on the rule of law, and also spoke at a separate session on The past months have been busy on several fronts with a number of events the independent bar. taking place. February marked the launch of the fantastic Green Street International events such as these afford great opportunities for members of Courthouse Lecture Series. The Series was the brainchild of Shane Murphy SC the Bar to meet members of the profession in other jurisdictions, to expand and has been an outstanding success. Poignantly, the inaugural lecture in the their knowledge base and also potentially to identify new areas of work. We Series was delivered by the late Mr Justice Adrian Hardiman on February 10, will continue to work on promoting The Bar of Ireland abroad and expanding 2016, on ‘The trial of Robert Emmet’. We are fortunate that Adrian’s lecture, our links with lawyers’ groups and associations internationally. together with all of the other superb lectures delivered to date in the Series, have been preserved on video. Adrian’s lecture was followed by a lecture from Legal Services Regulation Act Paddy Gageby SC on ‘The trials of the 1790s’. Paul Gallagher SC spoke on The Legal Services Regulation Act 2015 has not yet been commenced and the ‘Daniel O’Connell and his life as a Barrister’, and Mr Justice Gerard Hogan on new Legal Services Regulatory Authority has not yet been established. The ‘1916 and the Legitimacy of the Rising’. The final two lectures in this first phase Vice Chairman, Paul McGarry SC, and I travelled to Castlebar and Cork over of the Series, which were to be delivered by Michael McDowell SC and Michael the past few weeks to provide further details about the new legislation and L. O’Higgins SC, were deferred to next Term as the changes it will introduce. We were extremely well received and are very a mark of respect for Mr Justice Hardiman. grateful to our colleagues there. We hope to continue these talks in other The quality of the lectures and the venues around the country over the next few months. appropriateness of the venue have been obvious for all to see. We are very grateful Finally, I am delighted to announce that following the retirement of Diane to the Chief Justice and to the Courts Duggan BL as Co-Ordinator for the Voluntary Assistance Scheme, Libby Service for permitting us to use Green Charlton BL has been appointed as the new Co-Ordinator, following a very Street Courthouse. competitive interview process in which the quality of all applicants was Also in February, a fashion show in aid of the particularly impressive. It is a great credit not only to the talent at the Bar, but Bar Benevolent Society was held in the Atrium ttoo tthehe rremarkableemarkable ddedicationedication ttherehere iiss fforor vvoluntaryolunt and pro bono work among of the Law Library Distillery Building in Church tthehe pprofession.rofession. Street. All credit for the success of the fashion show rests with Johanna Ronan and her powerful skills of persuasion, which not only DavidDavid BarnivilleBarniville SCSC succeeded in persuading a Chairman, Council of The Bar of Ireland 44 THE BAR REVIEW : Volume 21; Number 2 – April 2016 EDITOR’S NOTE NEWS New Bar Review a Celebrating Women resounding success in Law In celebration of International Women’s Day 2016, the Women at the Bar Working Group of The Bar of Ireland, chaired by Grainne Larkin BL We are very grateful to all who gave such positive feedback on the most and Imogen McGrath BL, hosted a dinner at the King’s Inns on recent edition of The Bar Review. The continuing success of the journal Wednesday March 9 to celebrate women in law. is very much dependent on the feedback and contributions from all the An esteemed audience of barristers, judges and solicitors, including members, and we look forward to enjoying your continuing input and Director of Public Prosecutions Claire Loftus, Chief State Solicitor Eileen support. Creedon and Aoife McNickle BL of the Irish Women Lawyers Association, gathered to celebrate their female colleagues and to In this edition, we analyse recent legislation that overhauls the law of discuss the challenges that women can face in progressing within the residential tenancies, particularly in relation to rent reviews. We also legal profession. Director of The Bar of Ireland Ciara Murphy opened feature a recent Court of Appeal judgment highlighting the underuse the evening’s proceedings, setting out The Bar of Ireland’s commitment of interrogatories as a facet of litigation practice. The recently retired to work to understand the challenges faced by its female membership Mr Justice Nicholas Kearns has agreed to share his thoughts on life and to identify solutions to support women at the Bar.
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