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Controlling Jury Composition in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

Howlin, Niamh (Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2009-12-02)

Difficulties in securing convictions in nineteenth-century Ireland led the authorities to resort to various methods of ensuring that petty juries delivered guilty verdicts in cases where this was clearly warranted by the ...
Fenians, Foreigners and Jury Trials in Ireland 1865-69

Howlin, Niamh (University College Dublin, School of Law, 2010-08)
Internet Filtering: Rhetoric, Legitimacy, Accountability and Responsibility

McIntyre, T. J. ; Scott, Colin (Hart Publishing, 2008-10)

This paper argues that the automatic and opaque nature of internet filtering, together with the fact that it is generally implemented by intermediaries, raises new problems for the law and in particular may tend to undermine ...
The Terror of Their Lives: Irish Jurors Experiences

Howlin, Niamh (Cambridge University Press, 2011-08)

A commentator noted in 1881 that Irishmen regarded jury service as “the greatest burden that can be inflicted upon them … they would be delighted if trial by jury was suspended tomorrow.” He later added, “[o]f course an ...