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Thu 07 Jul 2008Protections in legal system not 'charter for criminals'
PROTECTIONS IN the legal system have been described by certain sections of the media as "charters for criminals" but they are there to protect the administration of justice itself, according to Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John L Murray.
Mr Justice Murray was speaking at a symposium to honour Walter Swift, the victim of a miscarriage of justice, in the Law Society yesterday. "The procedures are there to ensure that those who are guilty are convicted," he said. "We must remember that not only was Walter Swift wrongly convicted, there was another person who was never convicted."
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