Irish Times: ID on demand ruled unconstitutional
From the Irish Times 26 March 2011 – coverage of the Dokie case in which the president of the High Court, Mr Justice Nicholas Kearns, found section 12 of the Immigration Act unconstitutional:
A PROVISION of the Immigration Act forcing non-Irish nationals to produce ID on demand to a garda or face a criminal conviction has been ruled “unconstitutional” by the High Court.
Immigrant groups welcomed the landmark judgment, which they said would help fight the battle against what they described as “racial profiling” by the Garda and immigration authorities.
