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THE Chief Justice John Murray stepped into the political arena last week with words of warning that Michael McDowell would do well to heed. In a unusually explicit reference to how TDs and senators do their business, the Chief Justice said that Oireachtas members had "to understand that hastily prepared legislation, sometimes under pressure of unreal deadlines, can in the longer term cause more problems than they resolve".
Only a fortnight previously, in an attempt to appease concerns in the Cabinet over libel law reform, the Justice minister promised to draft potentially groundbreaking privacy legislation . . . and to do so in less than two months.
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