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Wed 08 Aug 2010Judge lauds human rights advances at Belfast Féile
THERE IS now no alleged abuse of human rights which is not reviewable by an independent court, Northern Ireland High Court judge the Hon Mr Justice Séamus Treacy said last night.
Speaking to an audience in west Belfast, Mr Justice Treacy said “That we have arrived at this new point is the consolidated work of many, not least the lawyers and the courts, whose independence, actual and perceived, constitutes the greatest bulwark against the abuse of State power”.
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