... it form an opinion on whether the ordinary courts are appropriate to ensure effective administration of justice and the preservation of public order and peace if it does not know in advance why the government has decided that these ordinary courts were not? It would seem that in practice the Irish system gives the power to the government alone to decide whether ... the State Act 1939. There is thus a whole range of common law offenses which may be tried by the Special Criminal Court on the basis of a government decision. The reasons why the government decides to declare an offence or le...

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... , the events become misconstrued. The only information that was known at the time was the result, 13 marchers had died at the hands of the British Army although how and why this had happened was unknown. The British Army quickly stated that the event was "unfortunate" but that they "came under fire"5 and "were also petrol ... the marchers the Nationalist Northern Irish once again saw their view and interpretation of the "tyrannical" and "evil" British encapsulated by their own actions. This is why today many Nationalists still look, refer to and base their current attitudes on Bloody Sun...

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