The purpose of the Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na (Amendment) Act 2022 \u00a0is to amend the Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na Act 2005 to clarify that where a prosecution in a court of summary jurisdiction has been initiated by a member of An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na, the prosecution may be conducted by a different member.<\/p>\n
The 2005 Act provides that \u201c\u2026any member of the Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na may institute and conduct prosecutions in a court of summary jurisdiction[\u2026]\u201d. In the case of DPP (at the suit of Garda Liam Varley) -v- Ciar\u00e1n Davitt [2022] IEHC 320, the High Court held that the ordinary and natural meaning of the word \u201cand\u201d in the phrase \u201cinstitute and conduct\u201d is that the word must be read conjunctively, and that accordingly, a Garda member has a right of audience to conduct any proceedings that he or she has instituted, but the section does not confer a right of audience on a Garda in any other proceedings.<\/p>\n\n
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Issue of Summons There is no discretion for the District Court Clerk in the procedure for application for a summons.\u00a0 Unlike the procedure under the 1851 Act, the summons is to issue as an administrative matter if the application is duly made. A summons must state shortly and in ordinary language particulars of the complaint […]<\/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\/1625"}],"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=1625"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27098,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions\/27098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}