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My brother the criminal defense attorney in McKinney, Collin County, Texas with practice in Collin, Dallas, Tarrant, Fannin and Denton Counties charges $400 per hour for criminal defense work. If he is assigned as a Public Defender for an indigent client and thus paid directly by Collin County for his criminal defense services, his fee is $100 an hour.He is a very good lawyer. He is not cheap.Attorneys fees vary widely with experience, track record , specialization area, and actual location. Someone just out of law school may charge $90 an hour; a professor at SMU Law School who still has a private practice may charge $550–$600 an hour.You really don’t want a cheap brain surgeon or a cheap lawyer- you get what you pay for.

Ireland had its own rather progressive law system. Brehon Law is the body of ancient native Irish law.Today the ancient indigenous law system of Ireland is often called Brehon Law. Its correct name is Senchus Mor or Gael Law and best understood as the ‘laws of the land tiller’ and was and is known to Irish speakers as Feineachus. A general term for all law, without special reference to that of Ireland, was Recht. But the law of the Gaels was Feineachus. It's very important to know that these ‘laws’ were not made by Brehons (singular Brithem in Irish) but by the people themselves to protect the people.This native system of law, known as the Brehon law, developed from customs which had been passed on orally from one generation to the next. In the 7th century AD the laws were written down for the first time. Brehon law was administered by BrehonsPrior to English rule, Ireland had its own indigenous system of law dating from Celtic times, which survived until the 17th century when it was finally supplanted by the English common law. This native system of law, known as the Brehon law, developed from customs which had been passed on orally from one generation to the next. In the 7th century AD the laws were written down for the first time. Brehon law was administered by Brehons (or brithem). They were the successors to the druids and while similar to judges; their role was closer to that of an arbitrator. Their task was to preserve and interpret the law rather than to expand it.In many respects, Brehon law was quite progressive. It recognised divorce and equal rights between the genders and also showed concern for the environment. In criminal law, offences and penalties were defined in great detail. Restitution rather than punishment was prescribed for wrongdoing. Cases of homicide or bodily injury were punishable by means of the eric fine, the exact amount determined by a scale. Capital punishment was not among the range of penalties available to the Brehons. The absence of either a court system or a police force suggests that people had a strong respect for the law.By the time of Elizabeth I, the Brehon laws was considered to be old, lewd, and unreasonable. They were banned and English common law was introduced. However, thankfully, some of the Brehons thought to hide the precious manuscripts and a good number of them survived.Here are just a couple of Ireland's stranger ancient laws:The harpist is the only musician who is of noble standing. Flute players, trumpeters and timpanists as well as jugglers, conjurers, and equestrians who stand on the back of horses at fairs, have no status of their own in the community, only that of the noble chieftain to whom they are attached.The poet who overcharges for a poem shall be stripped of half his rank in society.Property/LandThe creditor who holds your brooch, your necklet of your earrings as a pledge against your loan must return them so you may wear them at the great assembly. Or he will be fined for your humiliation.For the best arable land, the price is 24 cows. The price for dry, coarse land is 12 dry cows.RelationshipsFebruary first is the day on which husband and wife may decide to walk away from the marriage.If a man takes a woman off on a horse, into the woods or onto a sea-going ship, and if members of the woman's tribe are present, they must object within 24 hours or they may not demand payment of the fine.The husband-to-be shall pay a bride price of land, cattle, horses, gold or silver to the father of the bride. Husband and wife retain individual rights to all land, flocks and household goods each brings to the marriage.A husband who through listlessness does not go to his wife in her bed must pay a fine.If a pregnant woman craves a morsel of food and her husband withholds it through stinginess or neglect he must pay a fine.If a woman makes an assignation with a man to come to her in a bed or behind a bush, the man is not considered guilty even if she screams. If she has not agreed to a meeting, however, he is guilty as soon as she screams.When you become old your family must provide you with one oatcake a day plus a container of sour milk. They must bathe you every 20th night and wash your head every Saturday. Seventeen sticks of firewood is the allotment for keeping you warm.HealthNo fools, drunks or female scolds are allowed in the doctor's house when a patient is healing there. No bad news to be brought and no talking across the bed. No grunts of pigs or barking of dogs outside.If the doctor heals your wound but it breaks out a new because of his carelessness, neglect or gross want of skill he must return the fee you paid. He must also pay you damages as if he himself had wounded you.Random lawsWhoever comes to your door you must feed him and care for him with no questions asked.It is illegal to give somebody food that has been found with a dead mouse or weasel.A layman may drink six pints of ale with his dinner but a monk my drink only three pints. This is so he will not be intoxicated when prayer-time arrives.KINGSHIPThere were three levels of kings: Ard-Rí (High King)Provincial KingTribal KingKings were ranked at the top of the social order.They were parallel with bishops and the highest level of poets.Individuals were ineligible for kingship if they were blemished.To a certain degree, kings acted as agents of the law.But unlike the kings of Europe, Irish kings had very little authority to modify the law.They could issue a temporary law in times of emergency.But Irish kings could not, by their own authority, issue permanent law codes.When a king had to sit in judgement, he had to do so in accordance with the laws.Kings were not above the law in fact, some stipulations applied specifically to the king. However, as the most powerful individual, it was difficult to enforce the law against .to get around this, a dependent of the king could be enforced against instead. The laws also specified certain cases in which a king lost his honour price. Doing the work of a commoner, Moving around with a group of advisors or protectors, and showing cowardice in battle.Laws also commented on how a king was to arrange his life y holdings. Mondays for judgingTuesdays for playing the Celtic board game fidchell (equivalent to chess)Wednesdays for watching hounds hunt Thursdays for sexual union Fridays for racing horses Saturdays for judging (different from the Monday judging – but the distinction is not clear)The first encroachment on Brehon law came in 1155 when Pope Adrian IV issued the Bull Laudabiliter endorsing King Henry II's plan to conquer Ireland. This was followed by the Anglo-Norman invasion led by the Earl of Pembroke, Richard de Clare (Strongbow) in 1169. In 1171 King Henry II held a Council (known as the Curia Regis or King's Council) at Waterford. It declared that "the laws of England were by all freely received and confirmed." This declaration was more aspirational than realistic. English law was initially applied in most of the province of Leinster, where Henry II had granted feudal land rights to Strongbow. In 1172 Henry appointed Hugh de Lacy as the first Justiciar of Ireland (the king's representative).In 1204 King John authorised the issuing of writs, essentially directing the Irish courts to apply the common law. In 1226 King Henry III ordered the Justiciar to adhere to the laws and customs of England. A year later, a Register of Writs, containing copies of all the writs issued by the English courts, was sent to Dublin. The first recorded appointment of an Anglo-Norman judge came in 1221. English law declined in influence during the 14th and 15th centuries, during which time the Normans, through inter-marriage with the native Irish, were said to have become 'more Irish than the Irish themselves.'England sought to re-assert the supremacy of its Parliament and of English law over any Irish Parliament or Irish legislation by enacting the Statutes of Kilkenny in 1366. This was followed by the enactment of two statutes at a Parliament held in Drogheda in 1494, together known as Poynting's Law, which provided that the King's Privy Council must give prior assent to the assembly of an Irish Parliament and to the introduction of any specific legislation in the Irish Parliament and that all laws passed in England applied to Ireland. Despite this, by 1500 English law was confined to an area known as the Pale, made up of Dublin and the east coast. Beyond the Pale, Brehon law continued to be applied.It was not until the reign of King Henry VIII in the mid-16th century that English law extended further. He implemented a scheme of 'surrender and re-grant' of the land held by native noble families, which brought them within the feudal system of land tenure. Moreover, the King's break with the Roman Catholic Church led to the dissolution of the monasteries and the re-distribution of church land. English law gained a further foothold following the 'Flight of the Earls' from Ulster in 1607 and the consequent Plantation which saw the land being granted to Scottish and English settlers. The Flight of the Earls had an added significance in that it removed the Brehons' remaining source of patronage.In the cases of Gavelkind (1605) Dav. 49 and Tanistry (1607) Dav. 28, the courts in Ireland rejected the Brehon rules of succession in favour of the English law of succession. In the latter case, the court, applying the rule of recognition, held that the native laws of a country survived if they were reasonable, certain, of immemorial usage and compatible with crown sovereignty. The court held that the native law failed to meet these requirements. The end of the Brehon Law's authority was signalled by the Proclamation of King James I in 1603, which received the Irish people into the King's protection. The country was subsequently divided into counties and English law was administered throughout the country.Sources:Courts Service of IrelandIreland’s Brehon Laws were way ahead of their timeDevelopment of Brehon Law

Brehon Law is the body of ancient native Irish law.This native system of law, known as the Brehon law, developed from customs which had been passed on orally from one generation to the next. In the 7th century AD the laws were written down for the first time. Brehon law was administered by Brehons (or brithem).Prior to English rule, Ireland had its own indigenous system of law dating from Celtic times, which survived until the 17th century when it was finally supplanted by the English common law. This native system of law, known as the Brehon law, developed from customs which had been passed on orally from one generation to the next. In the 7th century AD the laws were written down for the first time. Brehon law was administered by Brehons (or brithem). They were the successors to Celtic druids and while similar to judges; their role was closer to that of an arbitrator. Their task was to preserve and interpret the law rather than to expand it.In many respects Brehon law was quite progressive. It recognised divorce and equal rights between the genders and also showed concern for the environment. In criminal law, offences and penalties were defined in great detail. Restitution rather than punishment was prescribed for wrongdoing. Cases of homicide or bodily injury were punishable by means of the eric fine, the exact amount determined by a scale. Capital punishment was not among the range of penalties available to the Brehons. The absence of either a court system or a police force suggests that people had strong respect for the law.By the time of Elizabeth I, the Brehon laws were considered to be old, lewd, and unreasonable. They were banned and English common law was introduced. However, thankfully, some of the Brehons thought to hide the precious manuscripts and a good number of them survived.Here are just a couple of Ireland's stranger ancient laws:The harpist is the only musician who is of noble standing. Flute players, trumpeters and timpanists as well as jugglers, conjurers, and equestrians who stand on the back of horses at fairs, have no status of their own in the community, only that of the noble chieftain to whom they are attached.The poet who overcharges for a poem shall be stripped of half his rank in society.Property/LandThe creditor who holds your brooch, your necklet of your earrings as a pledge against your loan must return them so you may wear them at the great assembly. Or he will be fined for your humiliation.For the best arable land, the price is 24 cows. The price for dry, coarse land is 12 dry cows.RelationshipsFebruary first is the day on which husband and wife may decide to walk away from the marriage.If a man takes a woman off on a horse, into the woods or onto a sea-going ship, and if members of the woman's tribe are present, they must object within 24 hours or they may not demand payment of the fine.The husband-to-be shall pay a bride price of land, cattle, horses, gold or silver to the father of the bride. Husband and wife retain individual rights to all land, flocks and household goods each brings to the marriage.A husband who through listlessness does not go to his wife in her bed must pay a fine.If a pregnant woman craves a morsel of food and her husband withholds it though stinginess or neglect he must pay a fine.If a woman makes an assignation with a man to come to her in a bed or behind a bush, the man is not considered guilty even if she screams. If she has not agreed to a meeting, however, he is guilty as soon as she screams.When you become old your family must provide you with one oatcake a day plus a container of sour milk. They must bathe you every 20th night and wash your head every Saturday. Seventeen sticks of firewood is the allotment for keeping you warm.HealthNo fools, drunks or female scolds are allowed in the doctor's house when a patient is healing there. No bad news to be brought and no talking across the bed. No grunts of pigs or barking of dogs outside.If the doctor heals your wound but it breaks out a new because of his carelessness, neglect or gross want of skill he must return the fee you paid. He must also pay you damages as if he himself had wounded you.Random lawsWhoever comes to your door you must feed him and care for him with no questions asked.It is illegal to give somebody food that has been found with a dead mouse or weasel.A layman may drink six pints of ale with his dinner but a monk my drink only three pints. This is so he will not be intoxicated when prayer-time arrives.KINGSHIPThere were three levels of kings:Ard-Rí (High King)Provincial KingTribal KingKings were ranked at the top of the social order.They were parallel with bishops and the highest level of poets.Individuals were ineligible for kingship if they were blemished.To a certain degree, kings acted as agents of the law.But unlike the kings of Europe, Irish kings had very little authority to modify the law.They could issue a temporary law in times of emergency.But Irish kings could not, by their own authority, issue permanent law codes.When a king had to sit in judgement, he had to do so in accordance with the laws.Kings were not above the law in fact, some stipulations applied specifically to the king.However, as the most powerful individual, it was difficult to enforce the law against .to get around this, a dependent of the king could be enforced against instead.The laws also specified certain cases in which a king lost his honor price.Doing the work of a commoner,Moving around with a group of advisors or protectors, andShowing cowardice in battle.Laws also commented on how a king was to arrange his life y holdings.Mondays for judgingTuesdays for playing the Celtic board game fidchell (equivalent to chess)Wednesdays for watching hounds hunt Thursdays for sexual union Fridays for racing horses Saturdays for judging (different from the Monday judging – but the distinction is not clear)The first encroachment on Brehon law came in 1155, when Pope Adrian IV issued the Bull Laudabiliter endorsing King Henry II's plan to conquer Ireland. This was followed by the Anglo-Norman invasion led by the Earl of Pembroke, Richard de Clare (Strongbow) in 1169. In 1171 King Henry II held a Council (known as the Curia Regis or King's Council) at Waterford. It declared that "the laws of England were by all freely received and confirmed." This declaration was more aspirational than realistic. English law was initially applied in most of the province of Leinster, where Henry II had granted feudal land rights to Strongbow. In 1172 Henry appointed Hugh de Lacy as the first Justiciar of Ireland (the king's representative).In 1204 King John authorised the issuing of writs, essentially directing the Irish courts to apply the common law. In 1226 King Henry III ordered the Justiciar to adhere to the laws and customs of England. A year later, a Register of Writs, containing copies of all the writs issued by the English courts, was sent to Dublin. The first recorded appointment of an Anglo-Norman judge came in 1221. English law declined in influence during the 14th and 15th centuries, during which time the Normans, through inter-marriage with the native Irish, were said to have become 'more Irish than the Irish themselves.'England sought to re-assert the supremacy of its Parliament and of English law over any Irish Parliament or Irish legislation by enacting the Statutes of Kilkenny in 1366. This was followed by the enactment of two statutes at a Parliament held in Drogheda in 1494, together known as Poyning's Law, which provided that the King's Privy Council must give prior assent to the assembly of an Irish Parliament and to the introduction of any specific legislation in the Irish Parliament, and that all laws passed in England applied to Ireland. Despite this, by 1500 English law was confined to an area known as the Pale, made up of Dublin and the east coast. Beyond the Pale, Brehon law continued to be applied.It was not until the reign of King Henry VIII in the mid-16th century that English law extended further. He implemented a scheme of 'surrender and re-grant' of the land held by native noble families, which brought them within the feudal system of land tenure. Moreover, the King's break with the Roman Catholic Church led to the dissolution of the monasteries and the re-distribution of church land. English law gained a further foothold following the 'Flight of the Earls' from Ulster in 1607 and the consequent Plantation which saw the land being granted to Scottish and English settlers. The Flight of the Earls had an added significance in that it removed the Brehons' remaining source of patronage.In the cases of Gavelkind (1605) Dav. 49 and Tanistry (1607) Dav. 28, the courts in Ireland rejected the Brehon rules of succession in favour of the English law of succession. In the latter case, the court, applying the rule of recognition, held that the native laws of a country survived if they were reasonable, certain, of immemorial usage and compatible with crown sovereignty. The court held that the native law failed to meet these requirements. The end of the Brehon Law's authority was signalled by the Proclamation of King James I in 1603, which received the Irish people into the King's protection. The country was subsequently divided into counties and English law was administered throughout the country.Courts Service of IrelandIreland’s Brehon Laws were way ahead of their timeDevelopment of Brehon Law