Law Seminar: Bail Reform ~ Rights and Risks

28th October 2015

IPRT/ICBA Prison Law Seminar 

Bail Reform: Rights and Risks

The Irish Penal Reform Trust and the Irish Criminal Bar Association will co-host a seminar on Bail Reform on Wednesday 11th November 2015 in the Jury Assembly Room of the Criminal Courts of Justice.

This timely event comes at a time of intense media, political and parliamentary scrutiny of Ireland’s current bail laws and proposed legislative reforms. A new IPRT Position Paper on Bail and Remand will be launched as part of the event.

This event carries 1.5 CPD points.

Speakers:

• The Hon. Mr. Justice Paul Butler will chair the event
• Mr Michael O’Higgins SC speaking on a paper by Jim McCullough BL: "The media and criminal practice: aspects of impact and interaction"
• Mr John Lonergan, Retired Governor of Mountjoy Prison: “Restricting the right to Bail: Consequence for Prison Conditions”
• Ms Deirdre Malone, Executive Director IPRT: “Bail Reform: Upholding Rights, Managing Risks”
• Ms Shalom Binchy, Chair of the Law Society Criminal Law Committee: “Bail Reform: A Solicitor’s Perspective”

All are welcome. A drinks reception will follow in the Jury Assembly Room after the event, kindly sponsored by the Bar Council of Ireland.

Venue: Jury Assembly Room, Criminal Courts of Justice

Date: Wednesday, 11th of November 2015

Time: 4:30 pm

For registrations, please email Marie Therese on mtpower@iprt.ie or call 01-8741400 

NOTES:

1. A new IPRT Position Paper on Bail and Remand will be published on 11^th Nov 2015. The paper covers:

• Overview of the right to liberty
• Legal framework governing bail in Ireland
• Bail conditions
• The case for bail supports
• Remand statistics
• Pre-trial detention of women
• Pre-trial detention of children
• Rights of prisoners detained on remand
• Barriers to accessing rights
• Access to structured activities
• Incentivised Regimes: penalising remand prisoners?

2. IPRT Conference | 27 Nov 2015 | Securing Accountability

IPRT will hold a conference on Monitoring, Inspection, and Complaints in the Irish prison system in the Spencer Hotel, Dublin 1 on Friday 27th November 2015. Speakers will include:

• HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, Nick Hardwick
• Professor Malcolm Evans, Chair of the UN Subcommittee for the Prevention of Torture
• Inspector of Prisons, Judge Michael Reilly
• Professor Andrew Coyle, Emeritus Professor of Prison Studies in the University of London
• Dr Mary Rogan, Dublin Institute of Technology
• Dr Cormac Behan, University of Sheffield

Details available here: http://www.iprt.ie/contents/2792