Really pleased to announce that my latest article: "The Insanity Defence in Ireland: An Analysis of the Defence in Homicide Trials" has been published in the latest issue of the Irish Jurist, now available on Westlaw.
Mental Health and Capacity Law Conference, Cork, Friday 5 Sept. 2025 .
Full information: https://t.co/9aUACQkKbe
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Jozef Puska had an address at Lynally Grove, Mucklagh, Co Offaly when he murdered teacher Ashling Murphy.
We know this address only because of journalists who were in court for his first appearance and later trial.
They wrote the address in their pieces.
I am staggered at the amount of people who do not know that court reports - unless reporters are directed otherwise by the judge or they are of no fixed abode - contain the accused’s:
Name
Address
Age.
The main reason we do this is to make sure the accused person is properly identified, not someone of the same name.
Say, for example, there were two Jozef Puskas in Offaly, the other one could and would sue the media if the clarifcation was not there. He would argue he had been labelled a murder accused.
I cannot believe people who are adults and interested in current affairs suddenly getting outraged at accuseds’ details appearing in reports and threatening journalists over it.
Have you never read a court report before?
Solidarity to the journalists involved.
Last Thursday we @LawGovDCU officially launched Police Custody in Ireland (Routledge, 2024) -an edited collection, with experts from policing studies, law, criminology & psychology examining many aspects of garda custody. It's freely available to access: https://t.co/CPme2HYsjX
The Research Collaboration of the Year award winner is @MariaCahil.
Through her IRC Laureate project ‘Societās - Exploring the Potential of Freedom of Association’, Maria has created a ground breaking network of legal scholars that represent 24 jurisdictions
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Bus driver treated a mother of two children with disabilities "unacceptably" and "as if he was doing her a favour" as she tried to board with a buggy and a toddler in heavy rain. Bus company ordered to pay €5,000 in compensation. #equality
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Huge congratulations to Dr @LukeNoonan10 on his PhD conferring. Thesis topic was reforming mental condition defences & procedures in the criminal justice system in light of the CRPD. Co-supervisor was the wonderful @cathosx. @LawUCC
Great piece in todays Examiner by @CCJHRlawucc Director @srmwilliams and @BufacchiV. Looking forward to the open debate later today @LawUCC @uccphilosophy
PSA: don’t read you student evals until after the holidays. I read mine on Dec 23 last year & I’m not exaggerating when I say a ten-paragraph manifesto a male student wrote degrading my course & teaching & personality ruined the holidays for me, even though the rest were glowing.
We have a #job opportunity at the Centre for Children's Rights & Family Law @LawUCC so if you're interested in working with us on a range of children's rights projects and events, take a look. Closing date 15th Sept. Pls share🙏
#UCCFutures#Research
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We're delighted to host the launch of Prof Ian O'Donnell's new book as part of the North South Criminology Conference today. Thanks to @VGeiran for doing the official honours!
Looking forward to chairing the “Generational Harms, Trauma and Self-Harm” panel at the second day of the 2023 North-South Criminology Conference @LawGovDCU@DCU this morning. An amazing line-up of speakers planned #NSCC23