International law on children’s rights, once focused almost exclusively on protection, has moved to include a greater emphasis on the participation rights of children. Within certain areas of the law affecting children in ...

Difficulties in establishing guilt being those of the determination of mens rea and of the evidence of the cause of death is a task for the sophistication of forensic science and the disputation of the expert witness. Yet ...

According to the Privileges Committee, the law as established by this judgementshows that effective repetition could extend beyond defamation to obscenity laws,contempt of court, and incitement to racial disharmony and so ...

In this article an empirically grounded study of the police practices used when conducting cold case reviews of unsolved homicides is used to illuminate the key features of what is termed ‘retroactive social control’. It ...

Order effects have been experimentally demonstrated to influence judgements where the most salient pieces of information are presented in a sequence either first (primacy) or last (recency). In a legal context, this can ...

On Tuesday December 8th 2009, at the inauguration of its third President, Rory Stanley, FGSI, the Genealogical Society of Ireland launched its first ever ‘Festschrift’ or ‘celebration publication’ of essays in honour of ...