Proposed legislation on abolition of juries to cut excessive awards, legal costs and appeals is criticised by some Dáil deputies
Proposed legislation on abolition of juries to cut excessive awards, legal costs and appeals is criticised by some Dáil deputiesThe Defamation Bill aims to balance and safeguard “the rights to freedom of expression with the protection of good name and reputation, and to access to justice”, Minister of State for Justicedescribed the move to abolish juries as “short-sighted” and “not fully thought out”.
“We need to recognise that defamation proceedings cannot be issued simply to confront or contest media criticism. If that is done with frequency, it will look like a strategy” and that was part of the reason for the Slapp measures in the Dáil, he said. Mr Browne defended the move as “the right course to take”. Juries have already been abolished in almost every other type of civil proceedings “and juries have already been abolished in Circuit Court defamation cases, with no adverse consequences, since 2009″.
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