IT may be an over-reaction to say that Chief Justice Susan Denham’s attack on the Government over its failure to establish a judicial council is seismic. 

Eddie Hobbs looks at Ireland’s powerful, unelected forces who control decision-making, upholding the status quo, and protecting their own interests at the expense of the general public, social progress, and the effective functioning of democracy

The President of the High Court has said “comfortable assumptions” that legal fees should continue as before, “without the slightest regard for privations experienced by citizens”, including other professionals, does not serve “the interests of justice”.

A GOVERNMENT watchdog will allow dissatisfied clients seek a review of how their complaints against solicitors and barristers were investigated.

LIKE, I hope, many lawyers in Ireland, I have watched and read the news from Pakistan with utter shock.