Lawyers for a convicted child rapist have told a High Court judge that rape victims are subject to criminal prosecution if they publish their own identity.

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At the launch of Fine Gael’s local election campaign, Frances Fitzgerald sent the candidates out to do battle on the doorsteps with a speech beginning with the declaration that most people get into politics in order to change things.

Mr Justice Paul Carney may have been in confident form when he wrote the following in his contribution to a collection of essays titled Criminal Justice in Ireland back in 2002: “People have been murdering and raping each other from time immemorial and, accordingly, the law in relation to these crimes is well settled.

THE High Court has ruled that rape victim Lavinia Kerwick is not entitled to have a combined libel, privacy and personal injury proceedings brought by her against the Sunday World heard before a jury.