Fergal F Davis, THE HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE SPECIAL CRIMINAL COURT, 1922-2005 Dublin: Four Courts Press (http://www.fourcourtspress.ie), 2007. 219 pp. ISBN 9781846820137. €60.

Pages162-163
Published date01 January 2008
Date01 January 2008
AuthorGeorge L Gretton
DOI10.3366/E1364980908270228

Internment and no-jury courts as responses to IRA terrorism? We associate these with the Six Counties, or Northern Ireland, during “the Troubles”. In fact both were copied from the Republic. The very first case ever heard by the European Court of Human Rights was on internment there: Lawless v Ireland. The Court held that IRA violence was such as to make internment an acceptable response. (The Irish courts had used “Ó Laighléis” as the spelling, but the Strasburg court preferred “Lawless”. This indulgence in dry humour seems never to have been repeated.) There is today a...

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