Irish Centre for European Law: Human Rights Law Conference 2016 – 20 October, Dublin

Date: Thursday, 20 October 2016

Time: 4:30pm – 7:30pm

Venue: DDRC, Distillery Building, Church Street, Dublin 7

The Irish Centre for European Law is hosting a conference on the interaction between the three main sources of human rights law namely; the Constitution, the Charter of Fundamental Rights and the European convention of Human Rights.

This vital evening conference will give practitioners some practical advice on how human rights law affects litigation in a number of areas, address some of the limitations of the current human rights protections in addition to setting out the interaction between the three main sources of human rights in Ireland.  The topics to be covered are:

• European Court of Human Rights - Courts, Conventions and Charters: making sense of fundamental rights in the EU
• Practical limitations – a review of the European Human Rights Act 2003
• Pleading the Charter and the ECHR in litigation
• Avoiding judicial overreach, the EU as an organisation of limited sovereignty
• European human rights law in criminal cases
• Human rights law in asylum and immigration cases: a practitioner’s perspective

To reserve a place online, click here and to download a booking form please click here.  The programme is available here but may be subject to change.