Right has not been done

If we apply the criteria of the prevailing culture to the non-jailing of the two Anglo-Irish executives, then Judge Martin Nolan’s decision was really not a surprise.

But just because events reflect the culture of a particular time does not make them right.

There’s a lovely saying, from an old, classic court case movie, called The Winslow Boy, in which Robert Donat, as the solicitor acting for a boy who has been accused of stealing in school, says “Let right be done”.