by Mark Tottenham | May 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
Introduction Online dispute resolution (ODR) technology is now available in a number of forms. If Ireland is to be a centre of internisational dispute resolution, ODR systems need to be embraced by the court system and the legal profession. If Irish lawyers are to...
by Mark Tottenham | Jun 21, 2017 | Uncategorized
(Originally published in Law Ireland, Vol 1, Issue 6) The laws of maintenance and champerty were applied in the case of Persona Digital Telephony Ltd v. Minister for Public Enterprise [2017] IESC 27, reported in this issue. The decision has already been the subject of...
by Mark Tottenham | Jun 9, 2017 | Uncategorized
(Originally published in Law Ireland, Volume 1, issue 4) One of the fears of a trial lawyer in preparing submissions is that he or she will have missed a recent judgment of direct relevance to the case at trial. But the task of keeping up-to-date with recent cases is...
by Mark Tottenham | Jun 9, 2017 | Uncategorized
(Originally published in Law Ireland, Volume 1, issue 5.) The power of a judge is awesome, in the literal sense of the word. In any society, somebody has to make the difficult decisions. When a couple separates, which parent should the children live with? When should...
by Mark Tottenham | Jun 9, 2017 | Uncategorized
(Originally published in Volume 1, issue 1 of Law Ireland.) Older colleagues at the bar have told me of a barrister named Bill Hurley. He was a former Group Captain in the RAF, who saw some action during the second World War. He was legendary for keeping meticulous...
by Mark Tottenham | Jun 9, 2017 | Uncategorized
(Originally published in Volume 1, issue 2, of Law Ireland. In the 1990s, with the increased accessibility of the internet and the development of the world wide web, a debate developed over whether this required a new type of law. It was suggested by Judge Frank H....
by Mark Tottenham | Jun 9, 2017 | Uncategorized
(Originally published in Volume 1, issue 3, of Law Ireland) This year marks the centenary of the completion of one of the most ambitious legal publishing projects ever: the first edition of The Law of England, being a complete statement of the whole law of...
by Mark Tottenham | Apr 27, 2016 | Uncategorized
I piece I wrote in the Irish Times, published on 27 April 2015 (link): The 2009 film Julie and Julia shows how the internet has changed the world of publishing. It tells the story of Julia Childs, a well-known cookery author, struggling to publish her classic...
by Mark Tottenham | Jul 17, 2015 | Uncategorized
A piece I wrote in the Irish Independent, published on 17 July 2015 (link): Five years ago, Tony Blair debated the late Christopher Hitchens in Toronto on the topic of whether religion was a force for good in the world. Towards the end of the debate, chairman Rudyard...
