Criminal legislation permits prison officers to search prisoners at any time.\u00a0 Under certain circumstances, strip searches may be justifiable in order to maintain the security of prison.<\/p>\n
The Forfeiture Act provided that a curator could be appointed to a convict’s property and affairs.\u00a0 This rule is because no legal action is to be taken for the recovery of property, debt or damage by a convict while he was subject to legislation, nor could he transfer a property.\u00a0 This legislation was repealed in 1997.<\/p>\n\n
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Overview Notwithstanding that a prisoner is deprived of liberty, he or she retains a range of other rights protected by the Constitution. \u00a0This includes the right of access to courts to challenge the legality of their detention. Challenges to the legality of the conditions of detention may be permissible. \u00a0It is unlikely that any such […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[218],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10538"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10538"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32059,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10538\/revisions\/32059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}