Sir, – Aside from the difficulties of empanelling an unbiased jury, there has long been an argument that matters involving company law are unsuitable for this kind of trial: they are too technical for the ordinary juror to grasp and proceedings can be of long duration. There are good reasons to have such issues tried by a special court of judges only.
What the past couple of weeks have indicated is the best way to extract the truth of the banking collapse is to put those with a case to answer on trial and listen attentively to their defence.
An Oireachtas banking inquiry is likely to be protracted, tortuous and far too expensive. – Yours, etc,
EDWARD FAHY,
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Drumree,
Co Meath.