Seanad debates
Wednesday, 18 June 2003
European Convention on Human Rights Bill 2001: Second Stage.
In the 1930s, in particular, that would have been especially difficult, which is not to malign the Constitution, which, as I have often said, is a fine document and has been extremely robust. The way the Judiciary has used it, too, has been extremely robust. However, the Minister's arguments about the law and the Constitution are the weakest in his very erudite and interesting speech which many law students will read with great interest. When he speaks of the incorporation of the convention into the Constitution, he quotes the review group saying as it "might lead to new gaps in protection in fundamentally important areas, such as the rights to trial by jury."
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