Archive for January 2010

The ICCL Know Your Rights Criminal Justice & Garda Powers Pack (black and white print friendly version )

  • Publication
  • January 28, 2010

The ICCL Know Your Rights Criminal Justice & Garda Powers Pack

black and white print friendly version

Home Defence Proposals “Overstep the Mark” Oireachtas Committee Told

  • News Item
  • January 27, 2010
Press release – for immediate release Wednesday, 27 January 2010 Ireland’s leading rights watchdog, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has told an Oireachtas Committee that some of the home defence proposals produced by the Law Reform C...

Know Your Rights

  • Article
  • January 26, 2010

KYR LOGO.gifThe ICCL has today (26 January 2010) launched the new mini site for its Know Your Rights public information project.

Accessible through www.knowyourrights.ie, and via the button on the left column of the site, the website currently features the first of a series of information packs which the ICCL will roll out online as part of the Know Your Rights project.

New Rights Guide Charts Garda Powers

  • News Item
  • January 26, 2010
Ireland’s independent rights watchdog, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL), has published a new guide to inform people about their rights when dealing with the Gardaí.The Know Your Rights: Criminal Justice & Garda Powers pack provides...

Know Your Rights: Criminal Justice and Garda Powers

  • Publication
  • January 25, 2010

The ICCL Know Your Rights Criminal Justice & Garda Powers Pack

The Know Your Rights: Criminal Justice & Garda Powers pack is the first of a series of booklets designed to inform people about their rights, which the ICCL is rolling out as part of its Know Your Rights public information project. 

The booklet is designed to inform the general public, in clear and accessible language, of their rights in the areas of Garda search powers, arrest, interview, detention, provision of bodily samples and public order.

Rights watchdog to scrutinise privacy safeguards in DNA Database Bill

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  • January 19, 2010
Press release – for immediate release Tuesday, 19 January 2010 Ireland’s leading rights watchdog, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has said that it will review the Government’s new DNA Database Bill to establish if it now strikes th...
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