Other law matters in brief
Flac conference on international human rights
Flac, the Free Legal Advice Centres, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties and the Irish Penal Reform Trust are hosting the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) conference on April 6th at the Radisson SAS Hotel, Golden Lane in Dublin. Registration opens at 10am.
This event aims to raise awareness of the recommendations on Ireland by the UN Human Rights Committee and to open a dialogue with stakeholders on how to implement them.
Three members of the human rights committee will address this conference, including Judge Elisabeth Palm, rapporteur on Ireland, former judge of the Swedish courts and former vice- president of the European Court of Human Rights; Judge Rajsoomer Lallah, former chief justice of the supreme court in Mauritius, and Prof Michael O’Flaherty, co-director of the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Nottingham and the Irish elected member of the UN Human Rights Committee.
Éamonn Mac Aodha, chief executive of the Irish Human Rights Commission, Michael Farrell, senior solicitor at flac and Dr Siobhán Mullally of UCC will also speak.
For further information, contact Edel Quinn at Flac on edel.quinn@flac.ie
Conference on migrant workers
The Migrant Rights Centre is organising a conference, The Changing Labour Market: From the Global to the Local, from 10am-4.30pm on March 26th in All Hallow’s College, Drumcondra, Dublin.
Keynote speakers include Paul Mason, economics editor of BBC's Newsnight, and Janice Fine, from the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University, followed by panel discussions. The conference will be chaired by RTÉ's Cathal Mac Coille.
Refugee law lecture in Cork
UCC’s Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights, in association with the Irish branch of the International Law Association will hold its Annual Distinguished Lecture on Monday next, March 23rd, in the Multi-Functional Hall, Aras na Mac Leinn, UCC
The speaker is Mr Guy Goodwin-Gill, Senior Research Fellow of All Souls College and Professor of International Refugee Law in the University of Oxford. He will speak on The Extra-Territorial Reach of Human Rights Obligations.
He was formerly Professor of Asylum Law at the University of Amsterdam and a Legal Adviser in the Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) from 1976 to 1988.
The lecture will be chaired by the Mr Justice Patrick McCarthy. For more information contact u.kilkelly@ucc.ie or 021 490 3642
Human rights in policing examined
Human Rights and Policing in Ireland: Law Policy and Practice by Prof Dermot Walsh of the University of Limerick has just been published by Clarus Press.
This book assesses Garda powers, practices and processes for compliance with international best practice in human rights standards and offers a critique of the law, policy and practice on policing in Ireland from a human rights perspective.
Prof Walsh examines the Garda record in relation to human rights from a wide variety of sources, including the Morris and Barr tribunals; court cases in which the evidence and behaviour of gardaí were questioned; complaints to the now-defunct Garda Complaints Board; and the Ionann human rights audit, commissioned in 2004.
He recommends a number of measures to address these issues, including the replacement of close governmental control of the Garda Síochána with a broad- based independent police authority.
The book is available in hardback for €185 and paperback for €99.