• What social workers talk about when they talk about child care proceedings in the District Court in Ireland 

  Burns, Kenneth; O'Mahony, Conor; Parkes, Aisling (Wiley, 2017-07-17)

  Court proceedings are a fundamental and increasingly time-consuming aspect of social work practice. However, to date, there is a relatively modest body of literature considering the experiences of social workers in instituting ...
• Best interests in the Mental Capacity Act: time to say goodbye? 

  Donnelly, Mary (Oxford University Press, 2016-12-22)

  Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, as interpreted by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in General Comment No. 1, offers a vision for law’s response ...
• The right of the child to be heard? Professional experiences of child care proceedings in the Irish District Court 

  Parkes, Aisling; Shore, Caroline; O'Mahony, Conor; Burns, Kenneth (Jordan Publishing, 2015-12)

  Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989 provides that all children capable of forming views should have those views seriously considered in any decisions that affect them. Once expressed, ...
• A transatlantic case: the derivative action as a corporate governance tool 

  Lynch Fannon, Irene (Clarus Press on behalf of the School of Law, Trinity College, Dublin, 2005)

  The derivative action as a minority shareholder protection device seems to be almost a dead-letter law in the British Isles as compared with the United States. Whether it can or should be revived through legislative reform ...
• Mental health tribunals: a significant medico-legal change 

  Whelan, Darius (Round Hall Ltd., 2004-01)

  After lengthy delays and protracted debates, the Mental Health Act 2001 was finally enacted and commencement of its substantive sections appears to be imminent. One crucial cornerstone of the new regime introduced by the ...

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