Seanad debates

Thursday, 20 November 2003

Personal Injuries Assessment Board Bill 2003: Second Stage.

 

There are other points I wish to make in relation to benchmarking and time. In Ireland it takes, on average, six times longer to conclude a case than in the United Kingdom. Everybody agrees it is a basic legal principle that justice delayed is justice denied. These are some of the issues which have driven us to the point we are at today. I am quite happy to discuss these issues with the Bar Council, the Law Society or anybody else. If they make fair points, we should respond to them as such. Where they make incorrect points, we should rubbish them. It is crucial that we take these issues on one by one.

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