Justice begins in the fragments. While the legal system excels at classification and resolution, it often fails at recognition. Written from the bench by an Irish High Court judge, this book challenges the administrative sublime of modern bureaucracy, which sees persons too often converted into risk scores and bullet points.Blending lived judicial experience with queer theory, literature, and philosophy, this book proposes a jurisprudence of attentive refusal to let the human disap...

The story of Ireland through one hundred postage stamps issued since the creation of the Irish Free StateA stamp is about so much more than postage. It is a little piece of art, history and imagination.Dr Max Barrett, a judge of the High Court of Ireland and a passionate stamp collector, explores the history of our nation through one hundred carefully chosen stamps. Starting with James Ingram's map of Ireland (1922), which pointedly omitted the northern bor...

In this second edition of The Art and Craft of Judgment Writing, Max Barrett, an experienced and practising judge working in Ireland, will not only enhance your judgment writing skills but elevate them to a new level of clarity, precision and style. With the first edition already used by judges around the globe, this new edition goes beyond the fundamentals to dive into cutting-edge areas of interest that today’s judges need to navigate. Subjects new to the second edition: The use (and mis...

Written by Max Barrett, a judge of the High Court of Ireland, Online Dispute Resolution: Law’s Future in the Digital Age looks at the impact of digitalisation on legal services provision and considers how, increasingly, a worldwide revolution in dispute resolution is unfolding, with many legal disputes now being resolved remotely. Further, it explores how, as part of this global ‘resolution revolution’, courts are undergoing change as public justice systems turn to offer fairer access to j...

Legal prose is often a more pedestrian venture than a novel or a poem. However, even the pedestrian can be done well. The views of the professional writers considered in this book identify how lawyers can write legal prose well, and sometimes even beautifully. This book provides key lessons on legal writing that can be gleaned from various leading authors of the past and brought to bear in crafting more polished legal texts. Among the great authors considered are Joseph Conrad, Guy de Maup...

Everyone else wants to be a normal teacher or fireman, but Adam the Ape has bigger dreams! He wants to be a hero. His dreams don't go down well with the rest of his class but can he prove them wrong and teach them a lesson in not bullying others? Written in rhyme.