A two-tier justice system is dangerous in any state

Regarding references to the Special Criminal Court in your editorial (Irish Examiner, December 21), I would like to make a few points.

As reported, the UN Human Rights Committee, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, Professor Dermot Walsh of Kent Law School, and human rights solicitor Michael Finucane all condemned the Special Criminal Court last October, as well as the proposal to open a second Special Criminal Court.

The idea of a two-tier criminal justice system is dangerous in any state. The Special Criminal Court is at present dealing with an ever-widening range of offences, and appears to a non-legal person like myself to operate to a different level of proof than a jury court.