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Mon 02 Feb 2010An insight into judicial decision-making in district courts
ANALYSIS:District Court judges show faith in people’s ability to change, writes IAN O'DONNELL
THERE IS very little information available about what goes on in Irish courtrooms. In the absence of official data, newspaper reports of criminal cases offer a largely untapped resource, containing details of offences, trials and outcomes, including observations made by defendants, victims, judges, lawyers and members of An Garda Síochána.
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