Event

Victim Impact and Legal Updates Training

This is a one-day training session in the Ashling Hotel, Parkgate Street, Dublin 8, from 10.00 am to about 5.00 pm. Lunch is included. There are two sessions to the day, one on Victim Impact Statements in the morning and the other on (criminal) legal updates in the afternoon. The focus is on survivors of sexual violence as prosecution witnesses particularly. We have already run it a number of times, and have always had very good feedback on it.

Anyone who wishes to attend needs to send Caroline Counihan their name and mobile number by email and indicate whether they have any special requirements for lunch, as soon as possible and no later than 2.30pm on Friday 27 April 2012.

Caroline Counihan:

legal@rcni.ie

14th International Symposium -

Justice for Victims: Cross-cultural persectives on conflict, trauma and reconciliation.

Venue: The Hague, Netherlands

The Act implements important reforms across a range of areas including domestic violence. The Bill amends the Domestic Violence Act 1996 so that a parent may now apply for a safety order against the other parent of the child even when the parents do not live together and may never have lived together. It also affords the protections of the Act to unmarried opposite-sex couples and same-sex couples who have not registered a civil partnership. In addition, couples will no longer be required to have lived together for a minimum period before one of them can obtain a safety order.

Part 3 of the Act places the civil liability of "good samaritans", volunteers and volunteer organisations on a statutory footing and provides legal clarity for persons who assist in an accident or emergency and those who engage in voluntary work for the benefit of society. The text of the Act will be available on the Oireachtas website  www.oireachtas.ie. A guide to the provisions of the Act is available on the legislation pages of the Department of Justice website   www.justice.ie

www.oireachtas.ie