Second edition of Irish Judicial Studies Journal for 2020 published
The second edition of the Irish Judicial Studies Journal for 2020 has been published, featuring a wide range of articles on personal injury law, surrogacy, the Irish language, sexual offence prosecutions and more.
The volume, available from the IJSJ website, includes:
- David Culleton on the law relating to aggravated damages
- Ms Justice Bronagh O’Hanlon, Katie Winder and Chloe O’Reilly on surrogacy in Ireland with a comparative look at international practices
- Mr Justice David Keane on consent recitals on loss of earnings in orders striking out settled personal injuries actions and the recovery of state benefits from tort damages
- Giacomo Benetto on data protection and the exercise of the judicial function in Ireland
- Ms Justice Bronagh O’Hanlon on PTSD and the law
- Dr Alan Cusack on challenging traditional constructions of competence and cross-examination for vulnerable witnesses in Ireland
- Dr Mark Coen, Dr Niamh Howlin, Dr Colette Barry and John Lynch on judge-jury relations
- Mr Justice Peter Charleton on Carl Jung, Father Victor White and the Book of Job
- Dáithí Mac Carthaigh BL and Dr Seán Ó Conaill on the right to a an Irish-speaking jury (published as Gaeilge)
- Ceara Tonna-Barthet and Caoimhe Hunter Blair on understanding the law on rape
- Mr Justice John Edwards reviewing Sentencing Rape - A Comparative Analysis by Dr Graeme Brown
- Dr Norah Burns reviewing Minority Religions under Irish Law: Islam in national and International Context edited by Kathryn O’Sullivan
Writing in the introduction, editor-in-chief Dr Laura Cahillane said: “I would like to thank our editorial team at the University of Limerick, and our newly constituted Judicial Board, as well as our copy-editor Bláithín O’Shea, our copy-writer Bríana Walsh, and all of the authors who contributed to this edition.”