A round-up of other law news in brief
Seminar on prison law and the ECHR
The fifth in the prison law seminar series, on the topic “Irish Prison Law and the ECHR”, will take place next Monday at 5pm in the Distillery Building, Church Street, Dublin.
Anna Austin of the registry of the European Court of Human Rights and James MacGuill, solicitor and former president of the Law Society, will speak.
The event is hosted jointly by the Irish Penal Reform Trust, the Irish Criminal Bar Association and the Dublin Solicitors Bar Association. Seminars qualify for continuing professional development (1½ hours) for both solicitors and barristers.
Isel seminar on family law and EU
A seminar on “Family Law and the EU” organised by the Irish Society for European Law will take place on March 24th at 6pm in European Union House, 18 Dawson Street, Dublin. Registration is at 5.45pm.
Deirdre Tinney, M Econ Sc and Ph D candidate in UCD, will speak on “Human rights and member state diversity”, and Cormac Corrigan SC, chairman of the Family Lawyers Association, will speak on “Family law at the European coalface”. The seminar will be chaired by Carol Coulter of The Irish Times.
Those wishing to attend the seminar or the dinner afterwards should email aodonnell@efc.ie
Women lawyers meeting on bias
The Irish Women Lawyers Association in the Mid-West is holding a seminar on “Discrimination on the grounds of age and disability” next Thursday at the University of Limerick at 6pm.
The speaker is Éilis Barry BL, head of the legal section in the Equality Authority from 2000 until 2009, when she returned to the Law Library to resume her practice specialising in employment and equality law.