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Wed 09 Sep 2009Treaty text 'is well-nigh unreadable'
LAWYERS AGAINST LISBON:THE LISBON Treaty represents a continuing development of an EU constitution without adequate democratic participation, according to a group of lawyers opposed to the treaty.
Brendan Nix SC, solicitor Joe Noonan who was an expert witness on foreign and security policy in the Crotty case, John McGuiggan BL and Fergus O’Rourke BL are the signatories of a statement issued yesterday at a Lawyers Against Lisbon press conference. “Most regrettably, Lisbon was deliberately written to further preclude this ,” they said.
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