Webinar Training Series: The Right of Access to a Lawyer
12th November 4.00pm-5.30pm / 26th November 4.30pm-6.00pm
The Irish Council for Civil Liberties cordially invites you to participate in a series of free online training seminars on the right of access to a lawyer.
The webinars will provide legal practitioners, law students, academics and others with practical training on the right of access to a lawyer both internationally and domestically. Input will be provided by a range of national and international legal experts. This innovate training method will incorporate a range of interactive online functions that will allow participants to take part from their own PC/laptop/tablet/smartphone and to pose questions to presenters and other participants during the webinar. The webinars will also provide training tools and materials to participants for download for their use both throughout the webinars and in their own time.
WEBINAR 1
The EU Directive on the Right of Access to a Lawyer and International Human Rights Standards, Thursday 12th November 4.00pm-5.30pm
Presented by: Jodie Blackstock (Justice) and Jacqueline Hodgson (University of Warwick)
This Webinar will consider the regional and international standards on the right of access to a lawyer and the practical implementation of these standards in national law. Relevant examples will be provided of good practices in other jurisdictions.
WEBINAR 2
The Right of Access to a Lawyer: Law and Practice in Ireland, Thursday 26th November 4.30-6pm
Presented by: Shalom Binchy (Shalom Binchy and Co Solicitors) and Matthew Kenny (Sheehan and Partners)
This Webinar will examine domestic law and policy in Ireland regarding access to a lawyer and will draw on international and regional standards discussed in webinar 1.
Participation
To take part in webinar 1 simply click on the following link on the date and time of the webinar and enter your name: http://iccl.wiziq.com/online-class/3259237-regional-and-international-standards-on-access-to-a-lawyer
To take part in webinar 2 simply click on the following link on the date and time of the webinar and enter your name: http://iccl.wiziq.com/online-class/3259248-the-right-of-access-to-a-lawyer-law-and-practice-in-ireland
If you wish to view the webinars using your IPhone, IPad or Android device, please use the following links to download the app.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wiziq/id540018386?mt=8 (IPhone, IPad)
http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.com.wiziq.ipadvc (Android)
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Biographies of Presenters:
Jodie Blackstock
Director of Criminal Justice, JUSTICE
Jodie Blackstock is Director of Criminal Justice and a barrister. Her position involves briefing on proposed domestic and EU legislation in the criminal justice sphere, conducting research into the effectiveness of criminal justice procedures, promoting law reform, and intervening in cases in the public interest. Recent joint projects include the European Commission funded, European arrest warrants: ensuring an effective defence and Inside Police Custody: An Empirical Study of Suspects’ Rights in Four Jurisdictions. Her case interventions have included appeals to the UK Supreme Court in relation to the right of access to a lawyer (2010), the rights of children of extraditees in preventing extradition (2012) and the right to post-conviction disclosure (2014). She regularly contributes to seminars and training programmes on criminal and human rights legal developments, in the UK, Europe and internationally.
Before joining JUSTICE in January 2009, Jodie practiced from 1 Crown Office Row Chambers. She is also qualified as an attorney-at-law in Trinidad and Tobago, where she has practiced in constitutional and public law matters both in the Caribbean and on appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. She sits on the EU Law Committee of the Bar Council of England and Wales, the executive committee of the Bar Human Rights Committee and is treasurer of the Extradition Lawyers’ Association. She is also a member of the Fair Trials International Legal Experts’ Panel and contributes on behalf of JUSTICE to the Criminal Justice Alliance and Standing Committee for Youth Justice.
Jacqueline Hodgson
Professor, School of Law, University of Warwick
Professor Hodgson holds an LLB and PhD and has researched and written in the area of UK, French, comparative and European criminal justice. Much of her work draws upon her own empirical projects funded by the ESRC, Nuffield Foundation, British Academy, Leverhume Trust, AHRC, the European Commission and the Home Office. She has contributed to policy reform through her research for the Royal Commission on Criminal Justice and her evidence to the House of Lords Select Committee on Her monograph French Criminal Justice (2005) is the first major empirical study of the investigation and prosecution of crime in France. She has written widely in this area and her expertise has been sought in the Special Immigration Appeals Commission, as well as in a number of European Arrest Warrant cases and other extradition cases. She held a British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship for 2009-2010. She was awarded the Social Science Faculty Impact prize in 2013. In 2013 she was elected to the Council of JUSTICE and in 2014 she was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.
She recently completed a European Commission funded study of suspects’ rights in four EU jurisdictions (Inside Police Custody, 2014 with Blackstock, Cape, Ogorodova and Spronken). In 2013 she began a new empirical study of the protection of juvenile suspects held for police questioning in five different EU Member States (Belgium, England & Wales, Italy, Netherlands & Poland). This is also funded by the European Commission.
Shalom Binchy
Solicitor
Shalom qualified as a Solicitor in 1996. She established Shalom Binchy & Co law firm in 2002 and has overseen its growth since then. Shalom is a member of the Law Society Criminal Law Committee and the District Court Rules Committee.
She is on the panel of Legal Representatives appointed to advise and represent clients at Mental Health Tribunals and has carried out this work since the Mental Health Act, 2001 was enacted.
Matthew Kenny
Solicitor
After graduating with an Honours degree in History and Politics in UCD, Matthew began his apprenticeship with Sheehan and Partners. Whilst attending the Law Society Professional Practice Course he was a finalist in the International Moot Court Competition and appeared in the Supreme Court before a panel of Superior Court judges.
Matthew qualified as a Solicitor in February 2006 and works in the District Court Department, appearing daily in Court as an Advocate. He recently became an Associate of the firm. While training he worked extensively in the Trial Department, and so he has wide experience of all aspects of criminal defence matters. He has also handled Police Property Applications, CAB cases, and Mental Health Law matters. He has a particular interest in Road Traffic cases, and recently wrote a CPD guide to Road Traffic Law for a major on-line education provider.
This webinar training series is financially supported by the Criminal Justice Programme of the European Union