REPLACING THE OFFENCES AGAINST THE STATE ACTS: The challenge of jury trials for terrorism and organised crime

University of Galway School of Law in association with Birmingham Law School

Day One: Friday 16/2/2024

Sign in from 9.00am 

Chair: Professor Caroline Fennell, Professor Emerita, UCC

9.30am Session 1: What principles should shape the replacement of the OASAs?

Keynote speaker:

• Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin MRIA KC, Regents Professor & Robina Chair in Law, Public Policy & Society at the University of Minesota and Professor of Law at Queen’s University Belfast, former UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Counter-Terrorism, Member of the International Commission of Jurists

• Professor Liz Campbell, Professor & Francine V. McNiff Chair, Faculty of Law, Monash University (Zoom)

• Professor Fiona de Londras, Chair of Global Legal Studies, Birmingham Law School

11.30am Session 2: Does Ireland need a non-jury court and if so, what should it look like?

• Dr Cian Ó Concubhair, Assistant Professor in Criminal Justice, School of Law & Criminology, Maynooth University

• Dr Eoin Daly, Lecturer in Law, School of Law, University of Galway

• Dr Mark Coen, Associate Professor, Sutherland School of Law, UCD

***LUNCH 1-2.30pm***

2.30pm Session 3: Are special evidentiary measures required in counter-terrorist or organised crime cases and, if so, what safeguards should be in place? How should proscription be dealt with?

• Dr Lawrence McNamara, Reader in Law, York Law School and Law Commission of England & Wales

• Dr Katy Vaughan, Senior Lecturer, Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law, Swansea University

• Jamie McLoughlin, PhD Researcher and IRC Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholar, Sutherland School of Law, UCD

• Dr Alan Greene, Reader in Constitutional Law & Human Rights, Birmingham Law School

4pm Session 4: What Oversight Mechanisms should be in place for any replacement of the OASAs?

• Dr Jessie Blackbourn, Associate Professor in Public Law & Human Rights, Durham Law School

• Professor Donncha O’Connell, School of Law, University of Galway

Day Two: Saturday 17/2/2024

Chair: Ms Justice Iseult O’Malley, Judge of the Supreme Court of Ireland

10.00am Session 5: Practitioner perspectives and concluding observations

• Brendan Grehan SC

• Ronnie Renucci KC (Zoom)

• Alice Harrison BL, Lecturer in Law, King’s Inns & School of Law & Criminology, Maynooth University

• Professor Claire Hamilton, Professor of Criminology & Head of Criminology, School of Law & Criminology, Maynooth University

CPD Points available

[Event will be recorded]

Further information from conference organisers:

Professor Donncha O’Connell, School of Law, University of Galway

donncha.oconnell@universityofgalway.ie

Dr Alan Greene, Reader in Constitutional Law & Human Rights, Birmingham Law School

a.greene@bham.ac.uk