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national / crime and justice Thursday April 28, 2005 17:02 by JW
From the newswire (our correspondents are everywhere)!:
He said that there was a culture of expediency in the Circuit Court, where a case could be heard in a week that might take months to argue in the High Court. He then spoke about the different parties in the Supreme Court: solicitors; barristers; jurors; witnesses; and the judge. Given the audience he had (mostly aspiring solicitors and barristers) his discussion of solicitors and barristers was limited to comparing and contrasting them as careers rather than their functions in court. He also told his audience that they probably know more law than [he] does, as one forgets so much of it after graduation, but compensates for this with experience and practice. Judge Moran had some interesting things to say about jurors though! He described the Jury System as a slow, expensive system that evolved by accident. He also said that the jury system is not something we would invent if we were starting from scratch today. He disagreed with the view expressed by some that a Jury is somehow the democracy on the ground of the judicial system. He explained how in earlier times jurors had to be householders, people who were considered safe, and reasonably pro-establishment. He said that now many such people will beg to be excused from jury duty because of work, children or holidays, and that juries tend to be mostly made up of unemployed or retired people.
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The talk began at 6pm in the Charles Parson's Theatre in the University. Most of the audience were either studying law or teaching it. There was brief introduction listing Judge Moran's career path from a solicitor in 1970, to being a barrister, and then a judge. After this the judge briefly outlined the different tiers of the courts system in Ireland: District Court, Circuit Court, High Court, Supreme Court.
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