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Cloyne and mandatory reporting

dvpower · 2011-07-24 16:03:23

In the wake of the cloyne report and the proposal for mandatory reporting I'm wondering, (why) does Section 7 of the Criminal Law Act, 1997, not already cover the issue. http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1997/en/act/pub/0014/sec0007.html#sec7 Does failure to report not constitute impeding apprehension or prosecution, or does…

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In the wake of the cloyne report and the proposal for mandatory reporting I'm wondering, (why) does Section 7 of the Criminal Law Act, 1997, not already cover the issue.

http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1997/en/act/pub/0014/sec0007.html#sec7

(2) Where a person has committed an arrestable offence, any other person who, knowing or believing him or her to be guilty of the offence or of some other arrestable offence, does without reasonable excuse any act with intent to impede his or her apprehension or prosecution shall be guilty of an offence.

Does failure to report not constitute impeding apprehension or prosecution, or does this refer to somehow actively impeding rather than passively not reporting or not cooperating?

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