Madailein Watters’s Reviews > Lessons From the Bench: Reflections from a Life Spent in Ireland's Criminal Courts > Status Update

“ The key lesson for me was that compassion and empathy, had to be allied with knowledge because that was the only way to achieve good judgments, that I hoped, would stand the test of time. For my part. I felt that my approach could be more about judging or more about understanding, I chose understanding”