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The Old Munster Circuit, the legal memoirs of Maurice Healy, was first published in 1939 by Michael Joseph, and has reappeared in several editions over the last 70 years. These amusing memoirs affectionately describe the workings and people of the Munster Circuit, where Healy practised from 1910 to 1914. Healy goes to some length in trying to describe and explain his countrymen to an English audience. This book is one of `Ten Literary Classics' chosen by Gary Slapper in The Times Student Law Supplement of October 2005.
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William E. Butler is The John Edward Fowler Distinguished Professor of Law and International Affairs at Pennsylvania State University; Emeritus Professor of Comparative Law in the University of London (University College London); Foreign Member, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine; Associate, International Academy of Comparative Law.
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`A charming unstructured anthology of humorous legal anecdotes from Ireland. The stories include instances of judicial severity like that of Lord Justice Holmes's sentencing an old man from a farming community to 15 years. The convict cried for mercy saying he would not live to finish the sentence. `Well,' said the judge, `try to do as much of it as you can!' The contribution of litigants is also well documented, such as that of the defendant in a case about the allegedly unfair sale of a horse. Examining the ethics of horse-dealing, the judge barked at the defendant: `That's not what you told (the purchaser) at the Bandon Fair.' `Oh no, but I'm on me oath now' came the reply which won him the case.' All material copyright Gary Slapper and The Times. -- Gary Slapper
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- PublisherThe Mercier Press Ltd
- Publication date1979
- ISBN 10 0853425973
- ISBN 13 9780853425977
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages272
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