THE COURT OF Appeal has granted the Irish Times access to character references – including one from former TD Jim Glennon – filed on behalf of a one-time government adviser convicted of sexually ...

The use of character references in certain cases has been debated in Northern Ireland for some time.

The daughter of a man killed by his partner has welcomed a landmark reform that would require character references in serious criminal cases to be given under oath or by affidavit. Karen Ryan began ...