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- Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2007)
David Norris: No, it has not. I have not repeated myself. I shall put on the record something from this case that I have put on it yet and I will end, at least temporarily, with that.
- Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2007)
David Norris: The Irish Government argued: Most importantly, they underlined that the Irish Constitution expressly protected freedom of expression and one's reputation. Central to striking a balance between these two rights was a fundamental notion of constitutional law, namely that of proportionality. It was a notion which was equivalent to the Convention concept: the applicants disagreement with this...
- Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2007)
David Norris: Exactly, but I am saying that in what they said, they agree with what apparently was the position of the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform less than two years ago. Something very remarkable has happened in the interval to change the Minister's mind so completely, and I am not being disingenuous in saying that. The Irish barristers did not merely represent the case that we...
- Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2007)
David Norris: That is if we tinkered with it in the way the Minister is doing. That is what they said.
- Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2007)
David Norris: I am not saying that.
- Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2007)
David Norris: Of course, it is not. I did not say that.
- Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2007)
David Norris: I will not delay the House on this matter, but I will say one or two things. The first is that this is an attempt to second guess juries. The machinery we already have is adequate for addressing the situation so effectively outlined by the Minister. This was the Government's position. The explanatory memorandum to the Bill states at the outset: "The purpose of the Bill is to revise in...
- Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2007)
David Norris: Mine were never trivial. I said they were not worth â¬150,000 but they were not trivial.
- Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2007)
David Norris: I would hope to secure the services of the Minister as a barrister.
- Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2007)
David Norris: I very much welcome the Minister's open-mindedness and that he has taken on board some of the ideas I have been expressing. I will consider tabling an amendment but I look forward with great interest to what the Minister may propose on Report Stage. I thank him for his open-mindedness on this matter.
- Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2007)
David Norris: I move amendment No. 3: In page 12, subsection (2), lines 3 and 4, to delete paragraph (f). I wish to delete the phrase referred to in the amendment. The next section is more important so I do not wish to waste much time on this matter but I am very interested in hearing the Minister's response.
- Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2007)
David Norris: That is exactly what I was thinking. There were some notorious judges who used to make the most outrageous, hurtful and sometimes slanderous remarks about people. I saw it in the Dublin District Court. I do not see why they should be immune. We should move on, but I reserve the right to table an amendment about remarks made by a judge or other person in the proper performance of his or...
- Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2007)
David Norris: I support the Minister on this point. It may not cover a case in which I was involved but it comes close to the point. Over the airwaves I stated that the situation pertaining to the selling of alcohol in Dublin is outrageous. Every huckster's shop is stuffed to the gills with gin, beer and wine and no licence application is turned down. On RTE I said I did not know who gave out the...
- Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2007)
David Norris: They still love me, however, as they do the Minister. There is a fair amount of wreckage in his case as well.
- Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2007)
David Norris: No.
- Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2007)
David Norris: I oppose this section because it seems extraordinary to claim that a body corporate is the same as a natural person. I do not believe that for a minute. This defect is compounded by the provision that a body corporate may bring a defamation action under this Bill in respect of a statement concerning it that it claims is defamatory "whether or not it has incurred or is likely to incur...
- Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2007)
David Norris: Absolutely.
- Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2007)
David Norris: The Minister should get rid of it.
- Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2007)
David Norris: Absolutely.
- Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2007)
David Norris: Except public figures.