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Wed 07 Jul 2009Rights group criticises several provisions
REACTION:THE IRISH Human Rights Commission (IHRC) has criticised several provisions of the Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill, describing them as disproportionate and unnecessary.
At a media briefing yesterday, commissioner Michael Farrell said that the section of the Bill which creates new “scheduled offences” in order to bring them before the non-jury Special Criminal Court strikes at the centuries-old right to trial by jury, without any data being produced on the existence of jury-tampering.
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