A round-up of other law news in brief
Law Reform Commission conference
The Law Reform Commission will hold its annual conference on Wednesday in Dublin Castle, with the theme Reforming the Law on Personal Debt. It will be opened by Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern.
Speakers will include Paul Joyce from Flac, Mary O’Dea, acting chief executive of the Financial Regulator, Michael Culloty of Mabs, Patricia Rickard-Clarke of the Law Reform Commission, Prof Iain Ramsay of the University of Kent, Marc Rothemund of the European Credit Research Institute in Brussels and Dr David Cooper of Queen’s University Belfast.
The fee is €40. Further information is available from the commission, e-mail legalsupport@ lawreform.ie
Annual human rights conference
The Irish Human Rights Commission and the Law Society of Ireland are organising a conference on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights – Making States Accountable, next Saturday at the President’s Hall in the Law Society, Blackhall Place, Dublin.
Navanethem Pillay, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, will give the keynote address.
Contact Anthea Moore at the Law Society at (01) 672 4961 or e-mail: a.moore@lawsociety.ie
Maynooth degrees now recognised
The King’s Inns has added NUI Maynooth’s law degrees to its schedule of approved degrees to undertake the entrance examination for the barrister-at-law degree course. The approval applies retrospectively to cover students who began their degree in 2008, the first year of the programmes.
The approval coincides with the appointment of Prof Sandeep Gopalan as head of the department of law at NUIM. Prof Gopalan was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford.
Family law conference
The seventh annual Thomson Round Hall family law conference takes place next Saturday in the King’s Inns, from 9am to 1.30pm.
Speakers include Gerard Durcan SC, who will review case law in the Supreme Court and High Court, barrister Ross Aylward on new developments in High and Circuit Court family law practice and procedures, and barrister Conor Power on developments in family law.
The conference will be chaired by Mr Justice Henry Abbott.
Names of counsel omitted
Last week, in a judgment titled “High Court grants discovery of solicitors documents”, the names of counsel were inadvertantly omitted in the editing process. These were: Robert Barron SC and Deirdre Byrne, instructed by Giles Kennedy, for the plaintiff; Declan McGrath BL, instructed by McCann Fitzgerald, for Arthur Cox Solicitors.