Dáil Éireann debate -
Tuesday, 27 Mar 1962

Vol. 194 No. 4

Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Paul Singer Court Proceedings.

82.

Mr. Sweetman

asked the Minister for Justice the dates of each occasion on which Dr. Singer was before any court, the nature of such court, and the purpose of each such occasion.

Minister for Justice (Mr. Haughey)

The information sought is set out in the form of a tabular statement, which, with your permission, a Cheann Comhairle, I propose to have circulated with the Official Report.

Following is the statement:

Date of each occasion on which Dr. Singer was before the Court	Nature of such Court	Purpose of each such occasion
1959:
JUNE
1st	District Court	For purpose of taking Depositions.
8th
15th
22nd
29th
JULY
6th	do.	do.
14th
21st
AUGUST
4th	do.	do.
11th
18th
24th
27th
31st
SEPTEMBER
3rd	do.	do.
7th
10th
14th
15th
17th
21st
24th
28th
OCTOBER
1st	District Court	For purpose of taking Depositions.
5th
8th
9th
15th
16th
19th
22nd
23rd
26th
29th
30th
NOVEMBER
2nd	do.	do.
3rd
5th
9th
10th
12th
16th
17th
19th
23rd
24th
26th
30th
DECEMBER
1st	do.	do.
3rd
7th
8th
10th
14th
15th
17th
18th
21st
22nd
29th
30th
31st
1960:
JANUARY
4th	do.	do.
5th
7th
8th
11th
12th
14th
15th
18th
19th
21st
22nd
23rd
MAY
25th	District Court	For purpose of taking Depositions.
26th
30th
31st
JUNE
3rd	do.	do.
7th
8th
10th
13th
14th
15th
17th
20th
21st
22nd
24th
27th
28th
29th
JULY
4th	do.	do.
5th
6th
13th
20th
27th
AUGUST
3rd	do.	do.
10th
1960:
MARCH
29th	CircuitCriminal Court	For Mention.
APRIL
28th	do.	For Arraignment.
MAY
4th	do.	For transfer to Central Criminal Court.
JUNE
3rd	CentralCriminal Court	For Arraignment.
OCTOBER
17th-21st	do.	Trial
24th
27th-28th
31st
NOVEMBER
1st-4th	do.	do.
7th-11th
14th-18th
21st
28th
1961:
JUNE
30th	CentralCriminal Court	Application for adjournment.
JULY
5th	do.	Application regarding bail.
7th
OCTOBER
26th	do.	Fixing of Trial date.
1961:
NOVEMBER
3rd	CentralCriminal Court	Trial
4th
6th
7th
8th
9th
10th
13th
14th
15th
16th
17th
20th
21st
22nd
23rd
24th
27th
28th
29th
30th
DECEMBER
1st	CentralCriminal Court	Trial
4th
5th
6th
7th
8th
11th
12th
13th
14th
15th
18th
19th
1962:
JANUARY
8th	CentralCriminal Court	Trial
9th
10th
11th
12th
15th
16th
17th
18th
19th
22nd
23rd
24th
1959:
JUNE
2nd	High Court	Hearing of application for reduction of bail.
1960:
APRIL
20th	do.	Hearing of application for Order of Habeas Corpus.
27th	do.	Hearing of application to serve notice of motion to make absolute Conditional Order of Habeas Corpus.
29th	do.	Hearing of application to make absolute Conditional Order of Habeas Corpus.
MAY
3rd	do.	Hearing of application of Attorney General for costs as party showing cause in Habeas Corpus matter.
JUNE
3rd	do.	Hearing of application for Order of Habeas Corpus.
JULY
4th	do.	Hearing of application for Order of Habeas Corpus and Prohibition.
18th-22nd	do.	Hearing of application to make absolute Conditional Order of Habeas Corpus and Prohibition. Also on 29th fixing of date for trial at Central Criminal Court.
29th
21st	do.	Hearing of application to review taxation of costs.
SEPTEMBER
7th	do.	Hearing of application for transcript of evidence of witnesses in trial of Desmond Shanahan and inspection of documents in the liquidation matter.
21st	do.	Further application for inspection of documents in liquidation matter.
1960:
DECEMBER
19th	Court of Criminal Appeal	Application for free transcript.
1961:
FEBRUARY
27th	do.	To be mentioned and to fix date of hearing.
APRIL
10th	do.	Application for leave to appeal.
11th
12th
13th
14th
17th
18th
19th
20th
24th
25th
26th
27th
28th
MAY
1st	do.	do.
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
8th
9th
10th
11th
15th
24th
25th
JUNE
23rd	do.	Delivery of judgment.
1960:
MAY
9th	Supreme Court	Appeal from an Order of the High Court made on 29th April 1960, refusing an Order of Habeas Corpus.
10th	do.	do.
11th
12th
16th
25th	do.	Judgment delivered.
AUGUST
4th	do.	Appeal from an Order of the High Court made on 29th July 1960, refusing Orders of Habeas Corpus and Prohibition.
1960:
AUGUST
5th	do.	do.
8th
9th	do.	Delivery of Judgement
1961:
JULY
26th & 27th	do.	Appeal from an Order of the High Court made on 18th July, 1961, refusing to postpone examination of Paul Singer in the liquidation proceedings of Shanahans Stamp Auctions Limited until the criminal charges against him were disposed of.
NOVEMBER
10th	do.	Ex-parte application for an Order directing the Central Criminal Court to adjourn trial pending the hearing of an Appeal (served on the 10th November, 1961) against an Order of the Central Criminal Court refusing to quash the indictment.