Further 50 members of legal profession call for no vote

A further 50 members of the legal profession in Ireland have added their names to a statement calling for a no vote in the upcoming referendum on the Eighth Amendment.

The barristers, solicitors and academics join a previous 100 signatories, which include Iarfhlaith O’Neill, former High Court judge and chairman of the Referendum Commission for the Lisbon Treaty, and Aindrias Ó Caoimh, former High Court judge and judge of the European Court of Justice.

The latest statement says that the signatories “hope that having considered what is at stake in the coming referendum and the far-reaching proposals of Government, our society will conclude that it would be profoundly unjust to withdraw the existing constitutional protections from the unborn”.