Oireachtas to consider ban on lobbying judges

A BAN on elected officials lobbying judges on behalf of criminals is to be debated in the Oireachtas in the autumn.

Independent Senator John Crown is to push the legislation in the upper house after the recent furore which forced David Norris out of the presidential race.

Norris quit the contest after it emerged he wrote to Israeli judges asking for clemency for a former partner convicted of the statutory rape of a 15-year-old.