Judge likens solicitors’ legal aid action to firemen standing by during blaze
A High Court judge has stated that solicitors refusing to act for defendants in the district court due to their criminal legal aid dispute “is akin to some firemen standing by and refusing to put out a few sparks because of a dispute over pay”.
In the High Court, Judge Michael Twomey made the comment when refusing an application by counsel for a Michael Sherlock to reserve the costs of an unsuccessful application to open an Article 40 habeas corpus enquiry into the detention of Sherlock.
Twomey said that “there is no basis for the costs of the unsuccessful application being reserved” in Sherlock's Article 40 of the Constitution habeas corpus action against the Governor of Cloverhill Prison and the DPP.
Twomey refused to open a habeas corpus application on August 5th into the detention of Sherlock and now in a written 13-page judgement concerning the issue of costs.
He said that the intention behind Sherlock's counsel’s application for costs to be reserved is clearly that...
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