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Breaking law for 'research'

  • 11-12-2010 5:56pm
    #1
    WildOscar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 396 ✭✭


    In a recent Prime Time on Limerick crime the presenter was able to get someone to provide a gun. What is the legal situation if the presenter asked him to get the gun to display. Ishe breaking the law. What about if i buy drugs to write about their availability, am i in possession? i am not a journalist do they have leeway if it only for researcha nd does that extend to me as a non journailst. If i surrender them to the gardai would i still be breaking/have broken the law

    Once Prime Time did a piece on charities and set up a fake collection. If i had given them money thinking they were legit are they breaking the law. This is just curiosity


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  • #2
    Reloc8
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,857 ✭✭✭Reloc8


    WildOscar wrote: »
    In a recent Prime Time on Limerick crime the presenter was able to get someone to provide a gun. What is the legal situation if the presenter asked him to get the gun to display. Ishe breaking the law.

    Yes.
    WildOscar wrote: »
    What about if i buy drugs to write about their availability, am i in possession?

    Yes
    WildOscar wrote: »
    i am not a journalist do they have leeway if it only for research

    No
    WildOscar wrote: »
    a nd does that extend to me as a non journailst. If i surrender them to the gardai would i still be breaking/have broken the law

    Yes
    WildOscar wrote: »
    Once Prime Time did a piece on charities and set up a fake collection. If i had given them money thinking they were legit are they breaking the law.

    Yes (probably)


  • #3
    WildOscar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 396 ✭✭WildOscar


    why do they not get prosecuted


  • #4
    Our man in Havana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,473 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    Not in the public interest.


  • #5
    johnnyskeleton
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 14,552 Mod ✭✭✭✭johnnyskeleton


    WildOscar wrote: »
    why do they not get prosecuted

    They do, from time to time:

    http://www.simonmcaleese.com/asp/printf.asp?RecordId=287


  • #6
    WildOscar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 396 ✭✭WildOscar


    johnnyskeleton wrote: »
    They do, from time to time:

    http://www.simonmcaleese.com/asp/printf.asp?RecordId=287
    very interesting thanks for link. What would happen if a non journalist bought drugs to show how easily available they were and then wrote a letter to editor or article

    I don't understand " Counsel for the Sunday Mirror instructed by Simon McAleese, applied for a direction on the basis that the State had not adequately proved that the prescriptions in question had not come from a registered medical practitioner." Could anyone not argue that in the case of prescription drugs?


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  • #7
    johnnyskeleton
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 14,552 Mod ✭✭✭✭johnnyskeleton


    WildOscar wrote: »
    very interesting thanks for link. What would happen if a non journalist bought drugs to show how easily available they were and then wrote a letter to editor or article

    The point is that there is no special immunity for a journalist or any other person buying them for research or investigative purposes. I mean, if that were the case then anyone who regularly buys drugs illegally if apprehended could simply say "I intended to write a stern letter to the Independent about this carry on".

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIX_0nMlIBU


    WildOscar wrote: »
    I don't understand " Counsel for the Sunday Mirror instructed by Simon McAleese, applied for a direction on the basis that the State had not adequately proved that the prescriptions in question had not come from a registered medical practitioner." Could anyone not argue that in the case of prescription drugs?

    Yes, but the point in that case was that the prosecution had not proved their case. Persumably they will do a better job the next time around.


  • #8
    WildOscar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 396 ✭✭WildOscar


    johnnyskeleton wrote: »
    The point is that there is no special immunity for a journalist or any other person buying them for research or investigative purposes. I mean, if that were the case then anyone who regularly buys drugs illegally if apprehended could simply say "I intended to write a stern letter to the Independent about this carry on".

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIX_0nMlIBU




    Yes, but the point in that case was that the prosecution had not proved their case. Persumably they will do a better job the next time around.
    thanks for the info
    "I intended to write a stern letter to the Independent about this carry on".
    would be a queue of junkies out side the indo:D


  • #9
    MagicSean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,897 ✭✭✭MagicSean


    johnnyskeleton wrote: »
    Yes, but the point in that case was that the prosecution had not proved their case. Persumably they will do a better job the next time around.

    Would the defendants medical records not be confidential though?


  • #10
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,580 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    k_mac wrote: »
    Would the defendants medical records not be confidential though?
    In the context, they might be subpoenaed.

    However, it need not go that far, e.g. if the dud prescription can be tied directly to the specific quantities of drugs, e.g. through a reference number or the evidence of the pharmacist (though that may be touching on medical confidentiality, unless the pharmacist is the complainant).


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