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Judgment of Mr Justice Barrington 11/01/1982 in petition to nullify marriage brought by husband against wife RSJ and JSJ; judgment by Chief Justice Finlay, 16/3/1988 re Attorney General at the relation of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, Ireland ltd & Open Door counselling ltd and the Dublin Wellwoman Centre; judgment by Finlay, 19/12/1989 re The Soc for the Protection of Unborn Children & Stephen Grogan and others.

Material relating to the Law Reform Commission including correspondence, working papers and cuttings. Includes correspondence from Mary Robinson (MR) to Helen Burke, Lecturer, Department of Social Science, University College Dublin, in which she gives "shopping list" of possible reforms in Irish Criminal Law, 14/11/1975; correspondence from Brian Walsh, President of the Law Reform Commission, 10/02-30/03/1977; photocopy of submission to the Law Commission from students of University of Dublin (Trinity College Dublin) "The Case for Habitual Residence as a Connecting Factor", 01/01/1982; cuttings 20/09/1974-17/01/1978; list of Law Reform Commissions' publications sent by Frank Ryan, Secretary to MR, 18/03/1986.

This subseries consists of material relating to 2 Hare Court, Temple, London, and Mary Robinson's work as Member of Chambers, 1988-2014, and is arranged chronologically across five files.

[Archivist's Note: 2 Hare Court is a barristers' chambers specialising in criminal and regulatory law, located in the Inner Temple, one of the four Inns of court, the professional associations for barristers in England and Wales. According to Mary Robinson's memoir "Everybody Matters", she joined chambers at 2 Hare Court "around 1987, at the invitation of my friend Anthony Lester, QC, one of the great human rights lawyers of our generation", having been called to the Middle Temple in 1973 (See P143/1/1).]

Correspondence and other material relating to 2 Hare Court, and Mary Robinson (MR)'s work as a member, including that relating to Chambers seminars in 1988 and 1990. Includes draft programmes; handwritten notes; article by Anthony Lester, QC, "Using Community Law in United Kingdom Courts", 17/02/1988, with notation; directory of members of Chambers, listing areas of expertise and years they were called to the bar; cutting of newspaper article by Lester on need for greater use of judicial review, 06/10/1989.

Correspondence and other material relating to 2 Hare Court, and Mary Robinson (MR)'s work as a member, including minutes, accounts, draft constitution and reports; correspondence with Anthony Lester, QC, Martin Smith, Clerk to Chambers and TM Barker, Director and other members of Chambers; correspondence with Forrester, Norall and Sutton, Brussels. Material also relates to Chambers Seminar on Community Law (17/02/1990) and includes list of participants.

[Archivist's Note: Material overlaps with the start of MR's term as President of Ireland (04/12/1990-12/09/1997) and letters from Lester in December 1990 refer to her inauguration and to her no longer working with 2 Hare Court. Also overlaps with Euro Avocats (see P143/1/6)]

Correspondence and other material relating to 2 Hare Court, and Mary Robinson (MR)'s work as a member, including minutes, reports and newsletters. Includes letter from Ann Lane, Personal Assistant to President MR, to John Mottram, Chief Executive, General Counsel of the Bar stating that as President of Ireland, MR was no longer a practicing barrister and it was therefore not appropriate for her to continue to be a member of the Bar during her term of office, 08/03/1991; chapter on Freedom of Expression, by Lester, for book on European Convention of Human Rights, 16/07/1991.

[Archivist's Note: See also Euro Avocats, P143/1/6].

Correspondence, minutes, reports, newsletters and other material relating to 2 Hare Court, and Mary Robinson (MR)'s work as a member, 1993-1999. In a brochure on Two Hare Court Barristers, Temple London, 1992 (cover letter 03/08/1993), MR is listed as an Associate Member.

Correspondence and other material relating to 2 Hare Court, and Mary Robinson (MR)'s work as a member, 2000-2014, including circulars and fixture lists relating to events (2000, 2002, 2014); Bench Lists for 2009 and 2012; magazine The Middle Templar, Issue 51, Winter 2011; correspondence from Ms Hilary Woodard, Editor, Middle Temple Bench Book, 11/08/2014.

This subseries consists of material relating to the setting up and running of Euro Avocats, 1989-1990. As per documentation in this subseries, Euro Avocats was set up to be a European set of Chambers, to meet needs for legal services within the community and EFTA [European Free Trade Association] countries, ACP countries [African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States] and elsewhere, and was possibly jointly founded by Mary Robinson and Anthony Lester. It was launched October 1989.

Some material in this subseries has been closed to adhere to GDPR regulations.

Correspondence, agendas and documents related to the setting up of Euro-Avocats, and the holding of the first meeting in October 1989.