Judge was ‘a small nail in the democratic system’
Some people, Judge Pattwell acknowledged, had nicknamed him “padlock,” but the court, the judge said, was never about punishing people but rather about “vindicating the rights of people who had been wronged.”
In Midleton District Court yesterday, he said: “I believed in the system. If I was a bit harsh and fearsome at times… I demanded respect for the system.
