IPRT Prison Law Seminar: Prison Complaints and Obstacles to Prisoner Litigation, Distillery Building, 5.00pm Thursday 29 March2012
On Thursday 29th March, IPRT will co-host the latest in its series of prison law Seminars on the topic of Prisoner Complaints and Obstacles to Prisoner Litigation. The seminar will explore the challenges facing prisoners and their representatives in raising complaints or concerns about their treatment in custody, both within the prison system and through the courts. The seminar will hear presentations fromJohn Ward BL, barrister and former Assistant Governor at Mountjoy Prison and Dara Robinson, partner at Sheehan and Partners and one of Ireland's leading experts on prison litigation.
A significant portion of the seminar will be set aside to hearing from other practitioners about the obstacles and challenges to prison litigation which they have encountered in their own practice. IPRT will be using the seminar to help develop proposals to the Minister for Justice and Equality and to the Courts to address some of the obstacles identified by practitioners.
Time: 5pm
Venue: Distillery Buidling
Date: 29 March 2012
The seminar will qualify for CPD points and entry to the seminar is free. To register please sign up online or contact Mary Gaffney at info@iprt.ie or 01-874 1400.
IPRT Seminar and Launch: Prisoner Rights and Prisoner Complaints Mechanisms 30 March 2012
The Northern Ireland Prisoner Ombudsman, Pauline McCabe will be the keynote speaker in IPRT’s upcoming seminar on prisoner complaints mechanisms, which takes place at 11am on Friday 30th March, 2012 in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin Castle, Dublin 2.
A new publication, Know Your Rights – Your Rights as a Prisoner, produced in association with the ICCL, will be launched at the event. This is the fourth pack in the Know Your Rights series, a public information project of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL), designed to inform people in clear and accessible language about their rights in various key areas of the law in Ireland. Produced jointly with the Irish Penal Reform Trust (IPRT), the Know Your Rights as a Prisoner pack aims to help prisoners understand the rights they have while in prison. It is written in everyday language and is informative and easy to use.
Date: 30 March 2012
Time: 11am
Venue: Chester Beatty Library, Dublin Castle, Dublin 2.
The event is free but places are limited. To register, please contact Mary Gaffney at info@iprt.ie or call 01-874 1400.