As a very basic obligation under the Constitution, the court must adopt fair procedures at the hearing.\u00a0 It is an absolutely fundamental principle of constitutional law that a person has a right to a fair trial in accordance with the law.\u00a0 This implies and requires thoroughgoing fair procedures.<\/p>\n
The rules of evidence are set out in separate chapters.\u00a0 Certain rules of evidence are designed to protect the accused in a criminal proceeding.\u00a0 Basic fair procedures require the full and free presentation of the accused\u2019s case and evidence, cross-examination of witnesses and the right to challenge the prosecution\u2019s evidence.<\/p>\n
A person is generally presumed innocent and is presumptively entitled to bail pending a hearing of the case. There are specified grounds on which bail may be refused. Historically, its sole function was to secure the attendance of the accused to \u00a0\u00a0Following a Constitutional amendment the courts may refuse bail if it is considered reasonably necessary to prevent the commission of a serious offence by that person.<\/p>\n\n
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Jurisdiction Criminal and civil matters are heard by the same judges but in separate divisions of the courts.\u00a0 The District Court hearing criminal cases hears them at different times and sittings and sometimes in different courtrooms to civil cases.\u00a0 The same applies to the \u00a0Circuit Court. There are also distinct criminal sittings. There is a […]<\/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":[68],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454"}],"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=1454"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1500,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454\/revisions\/1500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}