A senior police officer warned Irish-language courts could be “open to abuse” if introduced in Northern Ireland, according to declassified documents released on Tuesday by the Northern state archives. “Should persons be given the options of a preferred language when English would be no barrier to the fair administration of justice it would only slow down the whole process and, I would suspect, be open to abuse,” assistant chief constable Judith Gillespie wrote in a letter dated March 30th, 2004. She was responding to a consultation letter from an inter-departmental subgroup which was considering the use of Irish in courts...
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