Events from August 2019 onwards

Irish Law Events Retweeted

Constitution Project
‏@ConstitutionUCC 
Delighted to announce programme and registration details for our forthcoming conference @UCC on "Sovereignty, Populism and Constitutional Politics", 30-31 August. In association with British & Irish Chapter of @ICON__S.  CPD available! https://t.co/gIar291qza
http://constitutionproject.ie/?p=688 

@deckie: Looking forward to hosting Competition Law Scholars' Forum at @UCC @LawUCC. A great lineup with John Temple Lang as our keynote speaker https://twitter.com/CLScholarsForum/status/1161644717328744450

@UccCriminology: The 12th North South Criminology Conference will be held in UCC on the 2nd and 3rd September 2019. https://t.co/jylAnzke4p
https://www.ucc.ie/en/criminology/northsouth/

NUI Galway, 23-27 Sept. 2019:
Training on the Assisted Decision Making (Capacity) Act
https://www.nuigalway.ie/centre-disability-law-policy/trainingandevents/upcomingevents/

NUI Galway, 12 Sept 2019:
Getting to Grips with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: What Does it Mean for Ireland?
https://cdlp.clr.events/event/128587:getting-to-grips-with-the-un-convention-on-the-rights-of-persons-with-disabilities-what-does-it-mean-for-ireland


NUI Galway, 27 Sept. 2019:
School of Law Annual Distinguished Lecture 2019.
Justice Leona Theron of the Constitutional Court of South Africa.
”Are we all Equal? Is the new South Africa’s promise of true equality a reality or still a dream?”
http://www.nuigalway.ie/business-public-policy-law/school-of-law/news/school-of-law-annual-distinguished-lecture-2019-1.html

TCD, Dublin, 4 Oct. 2019:
Regulating the Future of Human Work: a Christian Ethics Perspective
https://www.tcd.ie/law/news-events/human-work-christian-ethics.php

TCD, Dublin, 12 October 2019:
Irish Supreme Court Review - Second Annual Conference
https://www.tcd.ie/law/news-events/iscr.php

UCD, Dublin 29 October 2019
The Offences Against the State Act at 80: Omni-Act or Omni-Shambles?
Society of Legal Scholars Annual Seminar 2019
https://www.ucd.ie/law/events/societyoflegalscholarsannualseminar2019/

Why we respond and why we turn away: human rights abuses in a changing world
Dublin, 6 September 2019.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/why-we-respond-and-why-we-turn-awayhuman-rights-abuses-in-a-changing-world-tickets-62433922543

@law_IALT: Our Annual Conference will take place @LimerickStrand from 22 to 24 November 2019. The Conference theme is "Beyond Borders: Collegiality and Collaboration in Law" and the call for papers is available here:
http://www.ialt.ie/2019/08/06/call-for-papers-annual-conference-2019/

Friday 11 October 2019:
“Behind Closed Doors: Crimes of Violence, Coercive Control and Abuse in Family and Intimate Relationships”
Association for Criminal Justice Research and Development. Dublin.
https://www.acjrd.ie/contents/399

Seminar and Book Launch on 27 September
The evening will begin with a seminar on the subject of the transformation of EU Treaty Making
https://www.ucd.ie/law/events/seminarandbooklaunchon27september/

Neurodiversity and the Criminal Justice System
November 1st 2019, Dublin.
Association for Criminal Justice Research and Development.
https://www.acjrd.ie/contents/402

Law Society Education
@LawSocEdu
CPD seminars :
https://www.lawsociety.ie/Courses--Events/cpd/

LLM Programmes in Ireland:
https://irishlawblog.blogspot.com/p/law-postgraduate-courses.html

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Capacity Bill and Prime Time programme

Cross-posted from Irish Mental Health Lawyers Association:

Implications of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013 for Vulnerable Persons in Congregated Settings

Submissions by The Irish Mental Health Lawyers Association on the Assisted Decision–Making (Capacity) Bill were made to the Department of Justice on the 30th of October 2013.

The Prime Time programme aired last night on the treatment of vulnerable persons in the care of the HSE at Áras Attracta highlights the urgent need for the Assisted Decision-Making legislation to be implemented as a matter of urgency. We and other organisations have made submissions in relation to appropriate deprivation of liberty safeguards which we consider should have been included in the Bill. An extract from our submissions are set out below.

We consider that it is necessary at this time, to emphasise that there must be appropriate legal mechanisms in place to ensure there is proper oversight of vulnerable adults in care, who cannot speak for themselves and who are entitled to be afforded their basic human rights. Legal mechanisms such as deprivation of liberty safeguards can serve to shine a light on poor practice and unlawful acts. We also consider that it is of the utmost importance that serious consideration is given to the immediate implementation of the Personal Advocacy Service provisions of the Citizens Information Act 2007. 

EXTRACT FROM SUBMISSION

1.    Reviews of detention of persons who lack capacity admitted to residential centres other than approved centres.
The Bill does not fully resolve the issue of people who lack capacity and are admitted to a residential centre on a "voluntary" basis but are de facto detained in the centre.  This is an issue which arises in residential settings such as nursing homes, social care institutions and centres for people with disabilities.  Ireland is not directly tackling the problem of the "Bournewood gap" and ECHR case-law such as H.L. v UK; Stanev v Bulgaria; D.D. v Lithuania and other cases.

Recommendation
The IMHLA recommends that the Bill should state that if a person is being admitted to any residential centre, this can only occur on a voluntary basis, where the person has capacity to consent to such admission and does consent to such admission.  Capacity to consent should be assessed appropriately. 

Áine Hynes, IMHLA                    Phone 01 6779097

10 December 2014

Full IMHLA Submission on Bill