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Know Your Rights Publication

After a nine year wait The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has published the 2nd edition of Know Your Rights.

The Know Your Rights information pack is intended to offer guidelines to members of the public, who find themselves in trouble with the Garda, in relation to their legal and constitutional rights.

The areas covered include
- Arrest
- Detention
- The Criminal Justice (Public Order) Act 1994
- Searches
- Search of the Person
- Property Searches

Copies of Know Your Rights are available from the Irish Council for Civil Liberies office at a cost of Eur5.00.
Tel: 01 - 8783136
Email: mailto:[email protected]

You can download the publication in pdf format at
http://www.iccl.ie/about/knowyourrights2003.pdf
related link: http://www.iccl.ie/about/knowyourrights2003.pdf

 

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Jaykers
Our right are pretty limited, aren't they?

 

[subbuteo !]

Jaykers
Our right are pretty limited, aren't they?

maybe they are limited maybe not it depends on how ya look at it


im just infroming people about the book its up to you what use it is to you

 

[Lordjaysus]

Nice one Byrneo, If you read it is amazing how wide the powers of the Gardai are, they can pretty much do what they want. All they have to do is use one of the hysterical acts which were blasted through the Dail when everyone was panicking, over drug use or rioting or whatever. They always use those powers out of context and rarely in the capacity they were meant for.

For instance squatters have to watch out because laws that were passed against traveller sites and drug dealers can equally be applied to them. Any time they wanted to hassle me it was under the misuse of drugs act, when they had absolutely no grounds to suspect I had drugs on me, except that I wasn't wearing a GAA top maybe.

And the potential sentances! They rarely hand down maximum terms because the prison system couldn't handle it and they might create an uproar. 635 yo fine and six months in jail for failure to comply with the order of a garda! What if he asked you to stand on one leg and sing the Dutch national anthem? A year in prison if you trespass on a building in such a way as might cause fear in another person! If you are in a group of 12 people and some copper thinks you are acting in such a way as might make someone fear for their own safety then the sentance and the fine are unlimited!

What I don't get is why the booklet is couched in language so sympathetic to the Gardai. If they have made almost everything a potential offence then how can the ICCL advise us that familiarity with the law can stop us getting in trouble in the first place. I suppose they are doing the best they can. It just highlights the lack of decent basic rights in this country.

 

[nofunchee]

your realistic summing up and probing questions are uncomfortable, please stop.

 

[broken arm]

It just highlights the lack of decent basic rights in this country.

give us a fucking break.
move to burma.

 

[c0De_n1NjA]

you have the right to remain boring

 

[ihadyerma]

Do ya have the right to shit in a gardaís hat in there's no public toilets around? Thats the type of important stuff I need to know..... *shows self out*

Didn't know that the gardaí could use "reasonable force" to get into yer home if you refuse, is that if they have a warrant only? Or in any case?

 

[Jerry Twig]

Thats a good one. Know your rights followed by 'You kill em, i'll fuck em' at the end.
very spirited!
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[тхеодоре кацзынски]

the misuse of drugs act gives the polis free rein to stop people whenever they please and for whatever reason they please.
`were fucked boys`

 

[Sampsons]

Shit yeah and "jim layheys a drunk bastard"

 

[Umfufu]

As a middle class, white male I think the police are doing a splendid job!

 

[timbot]

Didn't know that the gardaí could use "reasonable force" to get into yer home if you refuse, is that if they have a warrant only? Or in any case?

Warrant only, the only group who are allowed break into a house without any permission/warrant/etc are the firemen.

 

[Goff]

Warrant only, the only group who are allowed break into a house without any permission/warrant/etc are the firemen.

What about Custom's Officers? Do they need a warrant?

 

[frambosenshmak]

What about Custom's Officers? Do they need a warrant?

no.

 

[Goff]

no.

Thought so. Someone told me recently that they could. I found it hard to believe, considering they always have to have Garda back-up when stopping people. Didn't make any sense to me.

So much confusion.

Ta.

 

[pete]

Key changes to criminal law get the silent treatment - Crime & Law News from Ireland & Abroad | The Irish Times - Mon, May 19, 2014

Without any public announcement, the most significant change in criminal justice procedure in the past 30 years took place on May 7th. It took the form of a directive from the Director of Public Prosecutions to An Garda Síochána to the effect that, from now on, suspects detained at a Garda station would be entitled to have solicitors present during their questioning.

 

[pete]

BBC News - German court rules that men can urinate while standing

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

BBC News - German court rules that men can urinate while standing

Pinkler Uber Alles!

I'm pretty sure that means pissing over everything.

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

Fintan O’Toole: Why court ruling on evidence is bad for democracy