āLater, when the trial was moved to a larger courtroom, junior solicitors at Arthur Cox, which is acting for Magnier, attended court early to reserve seats for various senior Coolmore staff.ā
A bizarre case on the face of it. Magnier is trying to enforce an oral agreement but surely it is one of the fundamental tenets of the law that a contract for the sale of land has to be in writing? That said Judge Max Barrett is capable of deciding fucking anything. The bit about Max telling the courtroom that he used to read tillage agreements as a child is classic Max Barrett. He has an unrivaled regard for his own intellect.
Magnier must be taking this case to force the Thomson Moores to sell to him because he knows they are desperate for the money because they need to move to Australia to obtain treatment for the child. Cuntish behavior if so.
Just reading a profile on Judge Max there. He was one of the batch of solicitors appointed to the High Court in 2014, by fellow solicitor, Alan Shatter. Spent his time in practice as in-house solicitor to various banks and financial institutions before getting appointed to the bench at the age of 42.