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19/03/2008
Televised Trials Trashed
A suggestion by the representative body for middle-ranking Irish police officers for some serious trials to be televised on national TV has been met with deep reservation by criminal lawyers.
Paschal Feeney, Chairman of the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors (AGSI), speaking at the annual Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors conference, made the suggestion to televise all murder, manslaughter and kidnapping trials.
Mr Feeney said he felt the general public should see at first hand the pressures that witnesses and victims of crime are placed under.
He also said the extent of witness intimidation and its effects would become clear to viewers if proceedings were televised.
Criminal lawyers hit back however suggesting the introduction of cameras into the courtroom would simply add to the pressures already faced by witnesses, and that televising proceedings would actively discourage witnesses from taking the stand.
(DW)
Paschal Feeney, Chairman of the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors (AGSI), speaking at the annual Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors conference, made the suggestion to televise all murder, manslaughter and kidnapping trials.
Mr Feeney said he felt the general public should see at first hand the pressures that witnesses and victims of crime are placed under.
He also said the extent of witness intimidation and its effects would become clear to viewers if proceedings were televised.
Criminal lawyers hit back however suggesting the introduction of cameras into the courtroom would simply add to the pressures already faced by witnesses, and that televising proceedings would actively discourage witnesses from taking the stand.
(DW)
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