Day: 28 June 2023

Do we want citizens arresting one another for incitement to hatred?

In 1997, the Oireachtas enacted a far-reaching statute to codify and reform the criminal law, much of which was based on judge-made common law stretching back over the centuries. The statute was entitled the Criminal Law Act, 1997. One thing done in that Act was to abolish the ancient legal distinctions between what were termed felonies […]