We are delighted to welcome this guest post by Dr Susan Leahy. Susan is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Limerick. In recent times, a series of cases have highlighted problems with sentencing in sexual offence cases. The trials of Anthony Lyons and Patrick O’Brien have caused many to question whether our criminal justice system(…)
The Department of An Taoiseach has published the overly ambitious legislative agenda for the current Dáil and Seanad session. The Immigration, Residence and Protection Bill 2010 will (hopefully!) be heading to Committee Stage this term. The 2010 Immigration Bill has been around in essence since 2006, and will unlikely be coming into force for some(…)
Human Rights in Ireland is delighted to welcome this guest post from Julie McBride. Julie is a PhD Candidate at Queen’s University Belfast, researching the development of the war crime of child soldier recruitment in international criminal law, and a member of the United Nations Global Experts, specialising in international crime and transitional jus tice.(…)
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Supreme Court judgments are coming thick and fast at the moment as two of the members of the bench (Finnegan and Macken JJ.) are set to retire at the end of the month. Last Thursday alone five judgments were issued including one rejecting a constitutional challenge to the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2006. In(…)
A one-day conference organised by the Irish Centre for Human Rights and the School of Law, NUI Galway entitled “Ireland and the United Nations Framework for Business and Human Rights” will take place on 24 March 2012 at the National University of Ireland Galway. The conference seeks to explore and analyse issues of law and(…)
HRiI is delighted to welcome this guest post from Sonya Donnelly, a barrister-at-law and law tutor, who will be working as a programme lawyer on pre-trial detention with the Department of Justice of Malawi in the Legal Aid Department. Sonya’s book (with Sarah Carew) The Devil’s Handbook was recently published by Round Hall. Later this week(…)
On Tuesday 10th of May the Irish Penal Reform Trust (IPRT) will run an event entitled “Breaking the Record: Spent Convictions & Discrimination” in Pearse Street Library from 5 – 6:30 pm. Bobby Cummines the Chief Executive of UNLOCK – the National Association of Reformed Offenders in the United Kingdom will give a presentation and(…)
Human Rights in Ireland is delighted to welcome this guest post by Gilbert Leung, kindly reposted from Critical Legal Thinking. On 14 April 2011, the High Court of England and Wales ruled, in R (on the application of Joshua Moos and Hannah McClure) v The Commissioner of the Police of the Metropolis, that the police had(…)
The Association for Criminal Justice Research and Development yesterday launched its report on women in the criminal justice system, including papers from a conference on the same topic held late last year. The report was launched by Ms Justice Catherine McGuinness, who is said to have noted that murders committed by women attract widespread media(…)
The Irish Penal Reform Trust has drawn attention, by way of a press release, to certain legislative issues which are now in limbo given the dissolution of the 30th Dáil and in need of urgent attention on the establishment of the 31st Dáil. In particular, the IPRT has highlighted that while the Fines Act 2010 was(…)
