From The Times: August 4, 1919The text of the Government Bill for the Restoration of Order in Ireland is, frankly, an extraordinary measure. It proposes that, under the aegis of the Defence of the Realm Act, the Government should be enabled to abrogate trial by jury in Ireland and greatly to enlarge the existing powers of courts-martial. Under its provisions the Defence of the Realm Act would remain for a period, to which no limit has been set, a hateful intruder on the ordinary civil law. Such a Bill formally confesses the complete collapse of the Irish legal system. So long as Parliament retains responsibility for social order in Ireland, every means should be taken to prevent crime against the lives and rights of

Source: The Times August 03, 2020 22:52 UTC