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Striking solicitors are hoping that a proposal by the Law Society to the Minister for Justice that an independent arbitrator be appointed to try to break the ongoing impasse which is grinding the District Courts to a virtual standstill.

THE ongoing dispute between solicitors and the Minister for Justice over payment rates for legal aid clients continues, and is having a serious knock-on impact on the administration of the District Courts.

“I COULD be here for the next hour,” a prosecuting Garda Sergeant told a Judge when he was attempting to list a defendant’s previous prosecutions.

A WOMAN who had all her assets frozen by the Gardaí appealed to be allowed withdraw €20,000 for living expenses at Tuam District Court.

A former jockey has entered a guilty plea to a drunk-driving charge from Australia.

There was a major discrepancy in the value of drugs seized by Gardaí from a Tuam defendant, who claimed the value of the deal was only €200, while a Garda witness told a special sitting of Tuam District Court that it was €2,600.

A DEFENCE solicitor said his client’s arrest for possession and the sale and supply of cannabis was, in his own words, the best thing that ever happened to him.

A 21-year-old with 18 road traffic convictions who is currently off the road now works with his father in the car business, his solicitor told Galway District Court, where he picked up two more traffic convictions, bringing his total to 20.

A young man who filmed an intimate act he was engaging in with a woman on Snapchat, and then shared it on Snapchat, tried to apologise to his victim on Snapchat, his solicitor told Galway Court. He added that his client got no response.

An 18-year-old girl spat into the face of an arresting Garda when she was being arrested for being drunk and a nuisance at Eyre Square.