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THE CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT heard 23 murder trials, six manslaughter trials and 77 rape trials last year.
The Courts Service annual report, which shows the state of Irish courts around the country, reveals that last year there was 14% increase in the workload for the criminal court.
The number of rape trials heard in the Central Criminal Court increased by 22% from 59 in 2016 to 77 last year.
Sentencing figures for perpetrators of rape show 44% got over a ten-year sentence, 47.5% got between five to 10 years while 8.5% got two to five years.
In terms of sentencing for manslaughter, 47% were sentenced between two to five years, 47% between five to ten years, and 4% over 10 years.
Personal insolvency and repossessions
In other statistics, the report shows the number of bankruptcy applications decreased last year, while personal insolvency applications are up 37% over a two-year period.
The number of possession orders sought in the Circuit Court was 878, a 19% decrease on the 2016 figure of 1,088. The Courts Service said there had been a 52% decrease in new possession cases over the last four years.
Personal injury awards totalled €206 million – ranging from €500 to €15 million. Of last year’s awards, 50 of these were for medical negligence – totalling €99 million.
Other figures correlated for the report show that European arrest warrants were up 42% from 243 to 344.
Domestic violence matters remain similar to last year, though there has been a reduction in barring orders granted over past six years of 30%, from 1,165 down to 822.
However, there has been an increase in protection orders from 3,849 up to 5,006. In terms of drug offences, there has been an increase in the number of drug cases coming before the courts, up from 20,000 to 23,000.
Under pressure
The report shows that the Court of Appeal is stretched for resources and receiving more appeals than it can hear each year.
The current waiting time for an appeal in a civil case to be heard is 20 months, and 21 weeks for a criminal case.
The President of the Court of Appeal, George Birmingham, has called for more judges to be appointed.
Speaking at the launch of the report, the Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan said he would continue to appoint judges until Minister Shane Ross’ Judicial Appointments Bill gets over the line. Last year, 15 judges were appointed, and so far this year, 16 have been appointed.
Discussing the Judicial Appointments Bill, Flanagan said that he hoped to have it completed by the end of the year.
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McAfee is like a real life Hank Scorpio
Awweee the Denver broncos!
Breaking news: John McAfee to change his surname to ‘Intel- Security’.
His comment is priceless
In fairness he’s right too, constant pop ups, overpriced, and bloatware. Hate McCrapffe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKgf5PaBzyg
How To Uninstall McAfee Antivirus
Haha that’s some of the maddest shizzle I ever did see..I love him!
It’s a real killer though.
Nothing will put me off purchasing a new laptop / desktop than the sales guy saying “and it comes with anti virus software pre-installed”
not difficult to uninstall, don’t let that put you off.
Bought 3 laptops in my time. First thing i did with them was a full format. Lots of manufacturers crap comes with one. Background running memory eating crap.
Seems like the man himself is a virus
Such wit hiding behind that beard. Who’d have guessed?
I thank McAfee because they are the best at putting viruses on my computer and then even better at protecting me from that same virus ..
Ever notice how your computer always got infected just before your subscription was up ?
Same with norton, I have no virus protection on my comp and heyyyyyy gues what no viruses. Companys cteate them to get then to buy their bullshit
That’s just such bullshit, Dave! Too many AVP’s are resource heavy but very few are designed with any sort of malicious intent, esp the popular ones!
Too may people becoming stupidly cynical about these things. There are literal craptonnes of dedicated and independent communities that test, monitor and disassemble AV softwares in order to find out their true efficacy. And nobody has yet proven it to be true for the biggest players, barring Norton a few years ago with the whole ‘PIFTS.exe’ thing; when they attempted to censor people who found potentially dangerous flaws in the software.
Complacency is by far the most dangerous thing when it comes to security, be it online or personal, You may not require any third party protection, but for every one of you there are a hundred that really do, and if they decide to go without it then no matter how careful *you* are; you’ll be subjected to the inadequacies in and lackadaisical ‘use’ of resources by others.
He’s the sort of crazy SOB I’d want associated with my company
So who is more excited with the name change?
He killed his neighbour? That’s real cyber crime
Belize is in Central America.
Isn’t that where Mike went on ‘vacation’ in Breaking Bad?!!!
His comments are a bit harsh. Symantec is the worst software on the planet. McAfee only gets silver.
Check out YouTube video I posted here, it’s very funny. It’s not a vid on how to uninstall, it’s mcafee himself taking the pi#s
Watched it, it’s hilarious!!
That McAfee antivirus kills anything that gets in its way…..
He is really chuck norris stupid evil twin
McAfee ? anti virus ? What are these of which you speak…..
I laughed so much at his spectacular comment! Brilliant!
They’d wanna do more than just change the name
Now that’s what you call a well lived in face if ever I saw one.
You’d think he could afford better highlights too.
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