A round-up of today's law stories in brief
'Respectable Criminality' lecture
The Centre of Criminal Justice and Human Rights in UCC is holding its fourth annual human rights lecture on the theme “Respectable Criminality” on Thursday, March 4th, next.
The lecture, delivered by Mr Justice William McKechnie and chaired by District Court judge Dr David Riordan, will take place at 6.30pm in the Aula Maxima.
The lecture is free and will be followed by a wine reception.
Refugee council gets new CEO
Sue Conlan, a leading immigration and asylum lawyer in the UK for over 22 years, has been appointed chief executive of the Irish Refugee Council, replacing Robin Hannan.
Having first studied law in the late 1970s, she worked for years in the wider field of anti-racism before returning to study law, this time with an emphasis on social welfare law, particularly social security, housing, children, race relations and immigration.
Her practice involved advocacy before the UK Asylum and Immigration Tribunal.
She also worked politically in the defence and promotion of human rights.
Limerick Law Plus degree recognised
The King’s Inns has recognised the Law Plus degree at the University of Limerick, entitling the degree-holder to sit the entrance examination for admission to its Barrister-at-Law degree.
This course may be taken on a full-time one-year basis, or part-time over two years.
Law Plus combines core legal subjects with modules including psychology, maths, economics, languages, history, politics, sociology and new media and cultural studies. Recognition applies retrospectively to the start of the degree course in 2008.
Direct provision system analysed
A legal analysis by Flac of the direct provision and dispersal system for asylum-seekers in Ireland will be launched at 11am on Thursday next, February 18th, in Buswell’s Hotel, Molesworth Street, Dublin.
A DVD of short films, Living in Direct Provision, from the Integration and Social Inclusion Centre of Ireland (ISICI), will be presented. The event will be chaired by Flac’s Noeline Blackwell. Josephine Ahern (ISICI), Sue Conlan (IRC), Saoirse Brady (Flac) and Vukasin Nedeljkovic will participate.
UCD lecture on rights of children
Dr Tara Collins of the Faculty of Social Science, University of Ottawa, will give a lecture, Constitutional Rights for Children: Good Sense or Nonsense? in Room A 106, Newman Building, UCD, this Thursday, February 18th, at 7pm.