The law is an unpredictable beast and is not for the faint-hearted.
Jim Curran, in his autobiography, described with remarkable restraint his anxiety as to the outcome of the impending legal case — Right may not always make Might — yet as his professional career could be threatened it was necessary that the case should be undertaken as a safeguard.
His re-telling of that period, considering what was ranged against him — Jim Perrin, it might seem, secure with the protection of his Friends in High Places (and their ‘top’ lawyers; and their insurers… ) and the inevitable legal uncertainties — was not extreme: on the contrary, he wrote in measured terms and, one senses, More in Sorrow than in Anger.
What must he have felt as he had become aware of the shameless attempted assassination of his character, by Jim Perrin? Once his decision to seek redress was decided, what must he have feared when a date for the court hearing had been set?… Continue reading