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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1977-05-04/9/
4 May 1977 - Courts Bill, 1977: Second Stage.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1977-04-20/4/
20 Apr 1977 - Courts Bill, 1977: Second Stage.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1977-04-21/3/
21 Apr 1977 - Courts Bill, 1977: Second Stage (resumed).
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1977-04-20/18/
20 Apr 1977 - Courts Bill, 1977: Second Stage (Resumed).
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1977-04-21/4/
21 Apr 1977 - Courts Bill, 1977: Committee and Final Stages.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1977-03-31/3/
31 Mar 1977 - Courts Bill, 1977: Order for Second Stage.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1977-05-04/10/
4 May 1977 - Courts Bill, 1977: Committee and Final Stages.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1977-05-04/9/
4 May 1977 - Cooney) This is a short Bill to provide for an increase from seven to nine in the statutory maximum...Accordingly, in practical terms, the net increase in the membership of the judiciary which this Bill...The Bill also contains certain changes in existing legislative provisions regarding assignments of Circuit...The opportunity has also been taken to consolidate in one Bill existing provisions relating to assignments...Section 3 of the Bill contains certain consequential provisions, including the necessary substitution
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1978-02-15/4/
15 Feb 1978 - Enright This Bill should be amended in such a way as to allow that a court order must be obtained.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1977-04-20/18/
20 Apr 1977 - This Bill is designed to increase the number of judges in the various courts, including increasing the...number in the District Courts from 34 to 39.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1977-04-20/18/
20 Apr 1977 - the work on which the House will be engaged between now and the Summer Recess and I stated that this Bill...I made that statement on the basis that the Bill was politically motivated....Somebody suggested to me that the motive behind this Bill was that, following the dissolution of the...I do not know whether it was the District Court, the High Court or the Supreme Court that was involved...There are eight High Court judges.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1977-04-21/3/
21 Apr 1977 - An Leas-Cheann Comhairle The Deputy is going wide of the Bill....He seems to be reflecting on the action of the courts.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1979-06-19/34/
19 Jun 1979 - Enright I would refer the House to the Courts Act, 1977 which this Bill is amending....That Act deals with the whole aspect of judges in the High Court, in the Circuit Court and in the District...Court.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1977-05-19/25/
19 May 1977 - Dowling I will deal with many aspects of the Bill....with the ground forces and the air cover personnel get when they are travelling from Portlaoise to the courts...That is relevant to the Bill.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1977-04-20/4/
20 Apr 1977 - Cooney) I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."...The main purpose of this Bill is contained in section 1 which provides for an increase from seven to...The Bill also contains certain changes in existing legislative provisions regarding assignments of Circuit...However, the opportunity has been taken to consolidate in one Bill all the existing provisions relating...Accordingly, the Bill provides for an increase of two in the statutory maximum number of ordinary Circuit
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1977-05-04/9/
4 May 1977 - even when sittings of the Special Criminal Court cease....Accordingly, the Bill provides for an increase of two in the statutory maximum number of ordinary Circuit...Court judges....the District Court, in addition to the President of the District Court, shall not be more than 34....Accordingly, the Bill provides for an increase of five in the statutory maximum number of district justices
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1977-11-30/35/
30 Nov 1977 - In a judgment delivered on 7th July, 1977, Mr....Under Rule 92 of this Bill the amount which the court may require the personation agent to pay is £200...and this sum is well within the ordinary limits applicable to the District Court....In any event, under this Bill personation and double voting are offences which may be prosecuted summarily...in the District Court or on indictment in the Circuit Court.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1977-05-04/9/
4 May 1977 - should like to thank Senators for their contributions and their welcome for the general principle of the Bill...The main purpose of the Bill is to overcome delays in the High Court....That is the kernel of the Bill....The Bill seeks power to appoint two extra judges of the High Court....That Bill implements the report of the Committee on Court Practice and Procedure on this point and I
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1977-04-20/4/
20 Apr 1977 - The Bill affords this opportunity....First, the Bill would seem to make permanent a number of temporary appointments and to me, it is mainly...Otherwise, I do not think the Bill seriously tackles the problem of the backlog of cases awaiting attention...in the courts....and District Court level to expedite litigation.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2006-09-28/5/
28 Sep 2006 - Criminal Court itself in dealing with International Criminal Court cases....The question of the jurisdiction to be adopted by the Bill was subject to legal advice from the Attorney...international armed conflict of the Geneva Convention of 1949 and the first additional protocol of 1977...Conventions are comparable with ICC offences, universal jurisdiction is, in effect, also adopted in the Bill...jurisdiction of the State with respect to ICC offences beyond the universal jurisdiction adopted in the Bill
