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Constitutional
Democracyby W.
Finnerty. Tue Jul 24, 2007
09:13
An effort was made yesterday to try
to ensure our
Chief Justice (Mr John L. Murray) is aware of the way
constitutional democracy now appears to be under threat in major ways: both in
the
United States of America and in the
Republic of
Ireland.
In many respects it's the Republic of
Ireland's legal profession that will be on trial in
Navan
today, and much more so than the 7 people who are being forced to appear before
the court there.
For anybody interested the text of
yesterday's e-mail to Chief Justice John L. Murray, which was copied to several
senior politicians and lawyers, can be viewed at the following address:
http://www.europeancourtofhumanrightswilliamfinnerty.com/ChiefJusticeMurray/23July2007Email.htm
.
Some people may also wish to keep in mind the following
piece from the
Daily Telegraph on
January 14th 2006, which was
LONG BEFORE the
European Union quite
rightly started to raise serious questions regarding the legal validity of our
National Monuments (Amendment) Act 2004:
"
(Dr.)
Gerry Hogan (Trinity College, Dublin), senior counsel for
Mr Salafia,
claimed the legislation used to push through the project (
M3) was
unconstitutional. He said
the National Monuments (Amendment) Act 2004 weakened the role of the
Oireachtas (Ireland's national parliament) by giving the
minister discretionary powers to determine the fate of the country's heritage.
Mr Hogan claimed the state's duty to protect monuments had been 'seriously
compromised'. (See also at
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/83003&comment_limit=0&condense_comments=false#comment198350
.)
Related Link: http://www.constitutionofireland.com ===========================
The above text has been copied
from the following Indymedia (Ireland) location:
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/83495&comment_limit=0&condense_comments=false#comment202353
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UPDATE
(July 26th 2007):
In spite of the views of constitutional law
expert
Dr Gerard Hogan (related above), and the much more
recent concerns expressed by
European Union Commissioner Stavros
Dimas, both
Judge John Brophy and defence lawyer
Michael
Finucane yesterday "
acted as if" the
National Monuments
(Amendment) Act 2004 (Republic of Ireland) was all legally
valid.
An
RTE (State Broadcaster) report on the court case
can be viewed at
http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0725/m3.html
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Related web
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