The woman, who has been previously named by the media, is to now be anonymised following a successful application by her defence team after a Court of Appeal ruling last week.
— Courts News Ireland (@courtsnewsIRL) November 3, 2020
This afternoon.
Further to last week’s Court of Appeal ruling under section 252 of the 2001 Children Act (top) that a dead child cannot be identified, when someone is charged with killing them.
Meanwhile…
I will be introducing this Bill to amend the Children Act so that all adults charged with the murder or manslaughter of children can be identified. If the law is not changed those adults cannot, in the majority of cases, be identified @fiannafailparty pic.twitter.com/CVOcy6ZrZ9
— Jim O’Callaghan (@OCallaghanJim) November 2, 2020
Yesterday.
Last week: Protecting Whom?