Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 11 October 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Wards of Court: Discussion
9:00 am
Mr. James Finn:
I would not say that. Prior to our current arrangements coming into play at the start of 2003, I am aware of some historical cases where family members, or committees, were not satisfied to adopt the policies or strategies which were then being used by the Courts Service and made individual requests to the President of the High Court. It was a very small number of cases, no more than a handful, and they were given approval at the time to put in place individualised arrangements. That is no longer the case. It was very small numbers. It is not a case of it happening on an ad hocbasis, there is only one strategy now.
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