Sir, - In doing a research project at the Registry of Deeds, I became aware that from 1700 (when the register was begun), until approximately 1740' most documents contained the phrase "in justice and in equity".
From 1740, the phrase reads "in justice" only. It would seem that equity posed too great a problem, just as it does today.
Had the Supreme Court used the phrase "in justice and in equity", would its judgment in the Sinnott case be a different one? Would the Justice Department treat asylum-seekers and all other aliens in the disgraceful way it currently does?
It appalls me to think that all of this is done by a Government and a Civil Service acting in my name. I do not wish them so to do. Can they hear me? - Yours, etc.,
Shirley McKenna, Milltown Road, Dublin 6.