The Government has said it will publish a Bill on creating a judicial council, which would set standards for and examine allegations of misconduct against judges, before Christmas.
The introduction of such a Bill has been on priority legislation lists, published by the current Government and the previous Fine Gael-Labour coalition, for more than four years.
The announcement of the planned legislation comes after Chief Justice Susan Denham last weekend criticised the continued failure to establish a council, some 20 years a…
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