A round-up of this week's other court news in brief ....
Sutherland to speak in Dublin on Lisbon
Peter Sutherland, former attorney general and chairman of Goldman Sachs, will speak in Dublin next Friday on “The Lisbon Treaty and Public Debate”.
The lecture is organised by the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA), and will take place in Courtroom, the Bar Council Distillery Building, at 4.45pm.
Annual human rights lecture
The Law Society’s Annual Human Rights Lecture will be delivered by Lord Justice Stephen Sedley of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales next Monday at 6.30pm.
The topic of this year's lecture is The Three Wise Monkeys and the Marketplace of Ideas: Censorship in a Free Society.
More information is available from 01-6724831 or e.dewhurst@lawsociety.ie
Public lecture on international trade
David O’Sullivan, director general of DG Trade at the European Commission, will speak tomorrow at 12.45pm on the European Commission’s priorities for international trade to 2014 at the Institute of International and European Affairs, North Great George’s Street, Dublin.
Nathaniel Rudolf, Bedford Row, Middle Temple, London, will give a lecture next Thursday on international money laundering and counter-terrorist financing at the same time, also in the IIEA offices.
Mr Rudolf is the author of a book on the British perspective on international money-laundering.
Flac alliance on public interest law
Flac, Free Legal Advice Centres, has announced the establishment of a new Public Interest Law Alliance.
The alliance “builds on the work Flac and others have undertaken in recent years,” according to Flac, “to bring together all strands of public interest law already under way and so foster a more vibrant culture and practice of working with the law to benefit marginalised and disadvantaged people.”
The Public Interest Law Alliance is based at Flac and managed by Tony O’Riordan. Flac’s legal research officer Edel Quinn has joined the team as its legal information officer.
Two new alliance staff members, Lianne Murphy and Jo Kenny, took up their positions in mid-June. The team is currently consulting a range of stakeholders and is in the process of preparing a strategic work plan.
New book on religious freedom
A study of religious freedom in the Irish primary school system has just been published.
Freedom of Religion and Schools: the Case of Irelandhas just been published by Alison Mawhinney. It examines the primary education system in Ireland in terms of international human rights standards and obligations.
Dr Mawhinney lectures in the school of law in Queen’s University, Belfast.