Sir, – I’m enjoying Ruadhán Mac Cormaic’s week-long series of articles on the Supreme Court, particularly the one published on Saturday (“One court: eight voices” Weekend Review, July 6th).
I would like too see more women on that bench and a few younger voices too. I acknowledge the objection that we might be stuck with a 35-year-old justice for a very long time indeed, but perhaps term limits might be the remedy to that.
In any event, it is worth remembering that the Supreme Court has on many occasions been all that has stood between citizens and a legislature that, either through arrogance or timidity, lost sight of where its duty lay. – Yours, etc,
PATRICIA O’RIORDAN,
Stamer Street,
Dublin 8.
Sir, – Chief Justice Susan Denham has proposed that ethics must be emphasised in the boardroom (Home News, July 9th).
Indeed it will when the courts start to insist on such.
Common law affords justices considerable discretion in interpretation and application of general legal principles on issues such as good faith and absence of duress in business dealings for commercial contracts and the obligations of agents to improve governance. In the absence of legal sanction that threatens corporate and personal ambition, no progress may be expected.
I suggest that this ball is in the court of the chief justice and her colleagues. – Yours, etc,
DAVID FitzGERALD,
Kulmakatu,
Finland.