Date: 7 July 2015
Time: 5.30pm – 7pm
Venue: The Morrison Hotel, Lower Ormond Quay
Following their recent book, ‘Public interest litigation and social change in South Africa: Strategies, tactics and lessons’, Gilbert Marcus SC and Nick Ferreira are visiting Dublin to share learning in public interest litigation.
Marcus and Ferreira will explore the duty of the State in constitutional cases, followed by a panel discussion with Michael Lynn SC and Noeline Blackwell of FLAC on the experience of public interest litigators in Ireland. The seminar will be chaired by former Attorney General, Paul Gallagher SC.
This event is a must for those interested in how to best use rights, law and litigation to advance social change.
Gilbert Marcus is a senior advocate at the Johannesburg Bar and specialises in human rights and constitutional law. He is one of South Africa’s most respected advocates and has represented clients in some of the country’s seminal political trials under apartheid, as well as in path-breaking Constitutional Court cases. He has also previously acted as Judge of the High Court in Johannesburg.
Nick Ferreira is an advocate at the Johannesburg Bar and specialises in human rights and constitutional law. He has masters and doctoral degrees in philosophy from Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar.
Click here to register for the event or alternatively email rachel.power@flac.ie. CPD points are available.
Click here for ‘Public interest litigation and social change in South Africa: Strategies, tactics and lessons’ by Budlender, Marcus and Ferreira.
This event is kindly sponsored by William Fry Solicitors.