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Double Standards - Questions need answering


Raymond Blaney • 27 February, 2004

Green Party Councillor Raymond Blaney compares the jailing of Belfast Barrister with the failure of the DPP to even contemplate investigating UTV Insight revelations about its Deputy Director Glen Irwin.

The Green Party Councillor said: "On Monday night last UTV Insight reported that the Director of the Department of Public Prosecutions sees no fault in his Deputy Glen Irwin instructing a forensic scientist last November to remove from his case file crucial evidence of a miscarriage of justice against two South Down men, Martin Brogan and Mark Carroll.

"Yet three days later the Bar Council launches an immediate investigation into Michael Kelly, a Belfast barrister after he was held in a cell at Dungannon Courthouse for allegedly making disparaging remarks about a judge.

"These double standards completely undermine public confidence in the judiciary and the criminal justice system.

"People have a right to question which offence is more worthy of investigation: two men victims of a politically motivated prosecution designed to incarcerate them for years or a Belfast Barrister allegedly speaking out of turn to a judge?

"Why is it that the personal feelings of judge Jeffrey Foote QC should take precedence over the feelings of two South Down men deprived of liberty for 14 months?

"People are entitled to know if there is a different law for judges and senior figures in the DPP?

The Green Party would like to know if Jeffrey Foote QC, or the Bar Council is in anyway perturbed by the revelations in the UTV Insight programme: Above Suspicion?"



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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1 March 2004

 

Other Articles From This Issue:

 

The Enforcers

Anthony McIntyre

 

Reference Guide to Provisional IRA Attacks on Republicans, 1998-2004

 

Stand Down, Mr Hyde
Liam O Comain

 

Civilian Administration?
George Young

 

Adams Nearly Quit Sinn Fein - Peace Process Hero Angered by IRA's Violence
Barney de Breadbin and Eamonn Codswallop

 

Double Standards - Questions Need Answering
Raymond Blaney

 

Brilliant, Bloody Brilliant
Brian Mór

 

POWs and the Challenge of Partnership
Aoife Rivera Serrano

 

25 February 2004

 

Naming Bobby Sands Street

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Suspended Belief
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Kelly's Cellars
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Stop Press!
Jimmy Sands

 

PSNI/RUC Occupies POW's Family Homes
Marian Price and Martin Mulholland

 

Did the Black and Tans Run From the Rifles of the IRA?
Liam O Ruairc

 

Stevens, Inquiries, Resistance to Change
David Michael

 

Provisionals Attempt to Censor and Exclude RSF in Scotland
Seamus Reader

 

Provisional Police?
George Young

 

 

 

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