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Tue 11 Nov 2009First case set for new criminal courts
PEOPLE CHARGED with criminal offences will no longer be brought to court handcuffed and in public view after the new criminal courts complex opens for business. It has an underground holding area for up to 100 prisoners, who will now have separate entrances into each courtroom.
The complex, which features a central round hall four times the size of that in the Four Courts and seven storeys high, was revealed to journalists and photographers for the first time yesterday.
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