Objections may be taken to the disclosure of evidence.\u00a0 Public interest privilege and informer privilege may be a valid basis of exception.\u00a0 See the separate chapters dealing with these matters.<\/p>\n
The European Court of Human Rights has recognised limits on the duty to disclose where other fundamental rights and public interests are involved.\u00a0 In some cases, the only viable solution is that no trial takes place rather than one that is potentially unfair.<\/p>\n
Informer privilege may be invoked. There may be good public interest reasons not to disclose a source of evidence in cases of violent crime.\u00a0 The court determines issues of privilege.<\/p>\n
An application may be made to the Court ex parte in England and Wales in relation to whether potentially privileged information should be disclosed. A special defence counsel is assigned to argue that defence’s position.\u00a0 The Irish Courts have rejected this procedure.\u00a0 Instead, the court itself should examine the material and resolve the conflict between the protection of confidential information and a fair trial.<\/p>\n\n
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Duty of Disclosure An order of disclosure is required even in summary cases where it is necessary to ensure the constitutional obligation to afford a fair trial and fair procedures.\u00a0 They may require that the accused is furnished before trial with copies of statements of all witnesses whose evidence is crucial to the prosecution.\u00a0 This […]<\/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":[68,180],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536"}],"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=1536"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32525,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions\/32525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}