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Sat 08 Aug 2009New full-time court of appeal for civil and criminal cases recommended
THE GOVERNMENT should hold a referendum to establish a new full-time court of appeal to deal with civil and criminal cases, a high-level working group said yesterday.
Waiting times for hearings at the Supreme Court had grown from four months in 2003 to 30 months in 2008, the report found, and Ireland had the busiest court of last instance in the common-law world.
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