Legal
Special Criminal Court should be replaced, expert review finds
The majority report stated that the new version of the non-jury court should be based on a stricter approach ‘with more checks and balances’
An independent review of the Special Criminal Court has recommended that it should be replaced with a new special court for “exceptional cases.”
The emergency legislation which set up the three-judge, non-jury Special Criminal Court to try cases involving terrorism and serious gangland crime offences has to be renewed in a Dáil vote next week.
Sinn Féin, which was once an ardent opponent of the court, has abstained from the vote for the past two ...