Dr Fiona de Londras addresses seminar on ECHR Act
Dr Fiona de Londras recently gave a paper entitled "Using the ECHR in Irish courts: more whisper than bang?" to a seminar organised by PILA: The Public Interest Law Alliance, in which she addressed recent case law on the interpretation of the European Convention on Human Rights Act 2003. Brian Kennelly, a barrister at the leading public law and human rights set Blackstone Chambers in London gave the other paper in the seminar, on "Recent developments in ECHR case law in the UK and potential relevance to Irish issues" which dealt with lessons which could be drawn from the application of the Human Rights Act 2008 in the courts in the UK. The seminar took place on 13 May in the Distillery Building, 145-151 Church St, Dublin 7. More than seventy people attended the seminar and the two papers stimulated a lively discussion of the scope and impact of the Irish and UK legislation on the incorporation of the European Convention on Human Rights.
A video of Fiona's presentation is available on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07AqvKt1OAY&feature=related
Her paper is available here.