Labour Youth welcomes Ivana Bacik to UCD to talk about the criminal justice bill

dublin | rights, freedoms and repression | event notice Sunday November 21, 2004 11:51 by Chris Bond - UCD Labour Youth-vice chair/campaigns officer ucdlabour at hotmail dot com

TCD Law professor and Former EU Parliament candidate for Dublin Ivana Bacik will be visiting UCD on Tuesday the 23rd of November.

prof Bacik will be talking to us about the Criminal Justice Bill. If approved the Bill will allow for Gardai to issue on the spot fines to people if they deem fit, without stating a reason and without the right to appeal. It also allows for the Gardai to hold people for up to 24 hours and to retain a suspects DNA sample for 12 months. This bill if passed will undoubtabley be flawed in its application and biased towards young people. Id recommend that anyone interested in civil liberties should come along. Ivana will provide expertise in this area

Talk will take place in room B101 in the Arts block at 1pm.

All are very welcome to attend