Judge bemoans long trial lists post covid
“Where the offence is at the lower level of seriousness, there is no suggestion of sharing or distributing images, the accused is co-operative and it is a first offence, the option of a suspended sentence should at least be considered”.
If the courts start making decisions – as they were urged to do in this instance – based on how the climate in the country might be affected by those decisions, then they are no longer impartial judicial actors, but political actors.
We know, because we live in a world where 80% of American men are circumcised, that the procedure does no lasting harm to the human body’s ability to function.
That this is a nonsensical law should be evident to anybody who has ever travelled inbound through Dublin Airport.
We are spending an additional €30billion annually – can a politician point to €30billion’s worth of betterment in Irish society? Is the Health Service better? Are the Gardai more efficient? Why do we still have a crippling teacher shortage?
The problem for a society without the death penalty is that it is left with only the ordinary responses to an extraordinary crime.
“A serious issue that demands immediate attention.”
Two arrests.
There will be more riots, and more discontent, and more disorder. Whether people like me condemn it or not.
John Waters is facing an eye-watering legal bill after his case with Kitty Holland
Cases that came before the courts.