Recommendations for reforming the law on missing persons have been outlined in a consultation paper due to be published today.
http://liarcatchers.com/missing_persons_investigations.html
The Law Reform Commission report says that while almost 20 people go missing in Ireland every day, less than 1% remain missing long-term.
The paper forms part of the Commission’s Third Programme of Law Reform and makes 18 detailed provisional recommendations for changes of the law.
Among the recommendations outlined in the paper, is a need to have a statutory framework to deal with some immediate practical problems for family members, for example to allow access to a missing person’s bank account so that bills can be paid.
Another recommendation deals with allowing a missing person, who was presumed dead, but who eventually turns up alive, to have property returned to them.
The status of any subsequent relationships that a missing person’s partner enters into is also addressed – currently, Irish law says the new relationship is not valid.
