Readers may have noticed that PILA has ventured into social media with a new Facebook account, Twitter feed (which has attracted over 100 followers since its launch at the start of April) and Youtube account. Please feel free to like, follow, tweet or watch us!
This is all thanks to the newest member of the PILA team, Kim Watts, our Legal Information and Communications Officer. Kim is a New Zealand qualified lawyer who practised for 3 years in Auckland at Russell McVeagh and Simpson Grierson in litigation, competition law and consumer rights law. She has a BA/LLB and LLM in Commercial Law from the University of Auckland. Kim was a regular participant in Russell McVeagh's long-running pro bono partnership programme with the Mangere Community Law Centre in Auckland. Kim moved to Ireland in 2010 and worked at the Competition Authority implementing EU policy into Irish law and undertaking legal research before her appointment to the PILA Team.
Readers who missed the recent Business, Law and Human Rights seminar hosted in conjunction with the Law Society on 19 April, are invited to click here to view PILA's Youtube video of the seminar and its excellent contributions by Michael Smyth CBE, Esther Lynch of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and Tomás Sercovich of Business in the Community Ireland.
Watching videos of seminars whose content fits with CPD criteria may in principle count towards CPD points as part of e-learning. Practitioners should contact their regulatory body about this.