The colour of a nation's justice is a key to its true character. Possibly no country's legal system has produced a finer blend of rhetoric and rogueishness, of precision and panache, of judgement and justice, than Ireland. With wit and affection James Comyn (himself a veteran of Ireland's courts) has collected the highlights of Ireland's leading counsel and cases, ranging from the courtroom heroics of nationalists to sudden flashes of brilliance from jurists, eccentrics, and masters of eloquence. Here are the silks who defended the famous and the infamous. Here are the classic cases which made the reputations of many great lawyers. Tim Healy... Roger Casement... Erskine Childers... John Mitchel... their names echo through the courts of Irish history: they and many others are the plaintiffs in the celebrated defences and prosecutions of the IRISH AT LAW.

Irish at Law: Selection of Famous and Unusual Cases

James Comyn

SPHERE

Summing it up: Memoirs of an Irishman at law in England

Biographies & Memoirs

Round Hall Ltd

In this new collection of stories from his life as a barrister and High Court Judge, Sir James regales us with further 'goodies'. Anecdotes, jokes, reminiscences and ideas on law reform will please lawyer and layman alike. Sir James has a novelist's gift for (re)creating dialogue and a sense of humour which will have the reader chuckling with every page he turns. His new book has the same Rumpolesque quality of his earlier memoirs, Summing it Up, Watching Brief  and Leave to Appeal.

If your lordship pleases: Legal recollections

Community & Culture

Round Hall Sweet & Maxwell

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