In Short

A roundup of the rest of the week's law news in brief

A roundup of the rest of the week's law news in brief

Free human rights workshop

The Human Rights in Ireland blog (www.human rights.ie) has its first birthday on Friday, August 20th, 2010. It will hold a free human rights workshop in NUI Offices, Merrion Square, Dublin, from 1.45pm to 5pm.

The workshop will examine issues relating to ideology and human rights, society and rights engagement and the role of traditional and social media in analysing and disseminating knowledge of human rights. Please RSVP editor@humanrights.ie.

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Forum to explore cartel immunity

The next Competition Law Forum, organised by the Irish Society for European Law, will take place tomorrow at 6.30pm in the offices of William Fry, Fitzwilton House, Dublin.

The topic is The Review of the Cartel Immunity Programmeand the speakers are Remy Farrell BL, Gerald FitzGerald of the Cartels Division of the Competition Authority, and David Phelan of Hayes Solicitors. The forum will be chaired by the DPP, James Hamilton.

Seminar gives feminist viewpoint

The UCD Equality Society and the Irish Women Lawyers Association are hosting a seminar on the Feminist Judgments Project on Thursday, July 29th, at 6pm in the Distillery Building, Dublin 7.

The seminar will be addressed by Prof Rosemary Hunter of the University of Kent. The project involves feminist socio-legal scholars who have written alternative feminist judgments in a series of significant cases.

Human rights law fellowship

The Irish Centre for Human Rights at NUI Galway, in conjunction with Bank of Ireland, has announced a one-year fellowship in human rights law for a scholar from a developing country at the postdoctorate level.

It is available from September 2010 and the successful researcher should start no later than October 2010. The deadline for application is August 15th, 2010.

Review group on Garda interviewing

The Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern has set up an advisory committee to oversee policy and procedure on the interviewing of suspects by members of the Garda Síochána, chaired by former president of the Circuit Court, Mr Justice Esmond Smyth. The committee was recommended by the Morris tribunal into the actions of certain gardaí in Donegal.

Its members are: Martin Callinan, Deputy Commissioner, An Garda Síochána; Ruth Fitzgerald, Office of the Attorney General; Patrick Gageby SC, Bar Council; Claire Loftus, Office of the DPP; John Lohan, Department of Justice and Law Reform; James Mac Guill, Law Society; and Roger Sweetman SC, Irish Human Rights Commission.