Sentencing

paulieeye

Is it possible to find out what the courts pass for a sentence for a particular case?
I can see the on courts.ie the 'Circuit Court Diary' that lists cases that were sentenced that day but cannot see what was given out.

Is this public information or am I way off here?

paulieeye

anyone?? wrong forum?

hullaballoo

There was a comment today in relation to the Alan Kavanagh (Al Porter) case by the District Judge to the effect that while justice is administered in public, the media are the public's eyes and ears.

Essentially, while court outcomes are technically a matter of public record, unless things are reported by the press, they can go unnoticed and indeed unrecorded in the public sphere.

It's not possible in reality to administer a system of real public record here whereby anyone can seek details of every case that comes before the court and is dealt with in public. So there is a reliance on media reports but of course the same resourcing issues apply to those media and the vast majority of cases never enter the public conscience.

Of course it is open to you to attend at any public hearing and observe the outcome for yourself but again, you could not possibly attend at every court and observe all the outcomes.

paulieeye

hullaballoo wrote: »

There was a comment today in relation to the Alan Kavanagh (Al Porter) case by the District Judge to the effect that while justice is administered in public, the media are the public's eyes and ears.

Essentially, while court outcomes are technically a matter of public record, unless things are reported by the press, they can go unnoticed and indeed unrecorded in the public sphere.

It's not possible in reality to administer a system of real public record here whereby anyone can seek details of every case that comes before the court and is dealt with in public. So there is a reliance on media reports but of course the same resourcing issues apply to those media and the vast majority of cases never enter the public conscience.

Of course it is open to you to attend at any public hearing and observe the outcome for yourself but again, you could not possibly attend at every court and observe all the outcomes.

ok thanks. So what I get from this is that unless a story is picked up by the media or I attend a sentencing myself, it is not possible to find out the result of a case

hullaballoo

Yep.

sparkling sea

You can request the information but you may not get it. http://www.courts.ie/Courts.ie/Library3.nsf/PageCurrent/0C2BB029A1157BA780257FC0004E8631?opendocument&l=en