Recently, in the evening stream of the Dublin Legal Workshop (School of Law, Trinity College Dublin), on 3 April 2007, Andrea Martin, solicitor and media law specialist gave a talk entitled:
Right of Reply – a Workable Proposition for the Media?
Her argument was that a recent statutory proposal for a right of reply on broadcast media was neither necessary nor desirable, but that a voluntary scheme operated by broadcast media would have a lot to recommend it. …
My, but the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI) is being busy. Two important developments deserve comment: this week’s new codes and today’s announcement of a new christian radio channel. And they are linked.
First, the Codes. …
The Bar Council of England and Wales has a new website, and – mirabile dictu – a blog!!
Hat tips (& commentary): Tim Kevan on The Barrister Blog | Nick Holmes on Binary Law | Geeklawyer | lo-fi librarian | and, of course, Charon QC.
When, if at all, will their Irish counterparts do something similar?…
Dearbhail McDonald (Legal Affairs Correspondent of the Irish Independent) has brought my attention to a press release issued yesterday by the European Commission for Democracy Through Law (the ‘Venice Commission‘, an organ of the Council of Europe) about its recent Opinion on Video Surveillance in Public Places by Public Authorities and the Protection of Human Rights. …
What should be the legal response to a situation where a couple, having frozen the woman’s embryos (say, for medical reasons) subsequently break up? If neither statute nor the arrangement between the couple and the clinic provides for this, then it would seem that the woman has no right to seek to implant the embryos in the hope of bearing a child or children without the consent of her now ex-partner. This at least was the view of the Irish High Court in MR v TR [2006] IEHC 359 (15 November 2006) interpreting the Irish Constitution last year (already noted on this blog); and it was the view this week of the European Court of Human Rights in Evans v UK [GC] 6339/05 [2007] ECHR 264 (10 April 2007) …
DU Choral Society (in which I have sung bass, occasionally and very shakily), conducted by Bernie Sherlock, will sing Carl Orff‘s ‘Carmina Burana‘ in the National Concert Hall (NCH) next Tuesday evening, 17 April 2007, at 8.00pm. Book now! And enjoy.
PS I can’t believe that the classic Old Spice ad which uses ‘O Fortuna‘ (the opening and closing chorus from the ‘Carmina Burana’) isn’t available on YouTube! (though there are lots of other examples of the chorus, I particularly like this one).…
This message is by way of catching up with two important developments this week, and thanking those fellow bloggers who brought them to my attention.
First up, political advertising. …
Hot on the heels of the Carneige Foundation‘s report on Educating Lawyers: Preparation for the Profession of Law (which I have already discussed on this blog) comes Law in the Real World: Improving our Understanding of How Law Works (pdf) by Prof Dame Hazel Genn of UCL. It was launched in London at the British Academy on 6 November 2006 last (and welcomed here and here) – sorry I’ve only come upon it now. It makes for important, if uncomfortable, reading: its importance is self-evident, but it is discomfiting because of how little of this type of research is being undertaken in Ireland in the kind of systematic manner advocted in this report.…
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