• Investigating the pedagogical environments of paper-based and online media 

  Hourigan, Triona; Murray, Liam (2003)

  The Investigation of both paper-based and virtual pedagogical invironments allows us to reflect upon the diverse range of material available to the language learning community today. In this paper, the significance of ...
• Responding effectively to domestic burglary: A critique of the criminal justice (burglary of dwellings)Act 2015 

  Kiely, Tom; Leahy, Susan (Round Hall, 2017)

  This article analyses the Criminal Justice (Burglary of Dwellings) Act 2015. Written from the author’s respective experiences as criminal law practitioner and legal academic, the article seeks to highlight the limited ...
• Too much information? regulating disclosure of complainants’ personal records in sexual offence trials 

  Leahy, Susan (Sweet and Maxwell, 2016)

  For sexual offence complainants, testifying is an intrusive process where they must discuss sensitive and distressing information about themselves and the incident which has occurred. Traditionally, one of the primary ...
• Summing up in rape trials: The challenge of guiding effectively and without prejudice 

  Leahy, Susan (Round Hall, 2013)

  The existence of rape myths in the social consciousness and their potential to affect juror deliberations in rape trials is well documented. Thus, it is increasingly likely that trial judges will wish to seek to counteract ...
• Acknowledging the role of the criminal justice system in combatting domestic violence: assessing the recent law reform commission’s recommendations 

  Leahy, Susan (Round Hall Sweet & Maxwell, 2014)

  This article considers the recent Law Reform Commission Report on Aspects of Domestic Violence. The Law Reform Commission examined two specific aspects of criminal justice reform. First, the potential amendment of bail ...
• The Corroboration warning in sexual offence trials:final vestige of the historic suspicion of sexual offence complainants or a necessary protection for defendants? 

  Leahy, Susan (SAGE, 2014)

  As a general rule, witnesses in criminal trials are deemed to be fully competent to testify to matters that are within their own knowledge, and the evidence of a lone witness, if believed, is enough to support a finding ...
• Reform of Irish rape law:The need for a legislative definition of consent 

  Leahy, Susan (SAGE, 2014)

  Perhaps the most challenging aspect of the prosecution’s task in a rape trial is proving that consent was absent. Despite the centrality of consent, the concept is not legislatively defined in Irish law. In this respect ...
• No Means No, but where's the force? addressing the challenges of formally recognising non-violent sexual coercion as a serious criminal offence 

  Leahy, Susan (Sage, 2014)

  Historically, in order to prove an allegation of rape it was necessary to show that sexual intercourse had been obtained by force and that the complainant had resisted the efforts of her attacker to the utmost. The ...
• Whether rules or discretion? Developing a best practice model for controlling the admissibility of sexual experience evidence in sexual offence trials' 

  Leahy, Susan (University College Cork, 2014)

  This article considers the controversial issue of the admission of sexual experience evidence in sexual offence trials. The discussion begins with an assessment of the shortcomings of the current Irish approach to the ...
• Bad laws or bad attitudes? Assessing the impact of societal attitudes upon the conviction rate for rape in Ireland 

  Leahy, Susan (Social Care Ireland, 2014)

   The low conviction rate for rape is often highlighted as a cause for concern. The typical response is to call for reform of Irish rape law. Although reform is necessary, this article argues that the low conviction rate ...
• Using a real contract to teach law holistically 

  Eaton, Sinead (Northumbria University Library, 2017)

  A globally used industry-standard contract proved to be of great use in teaching a few aspects of law and putting a few others in context. The practical exercise of analysing the provisions of an actual contract facilitated ...
• Director's duties under the Companies Act 2014 

  Eaton, Sinead; Tumelty, Mary Elizabeth (Thomson Reuters Ireland Ltd, 2017)

  Part 5 of the Companies Act 2014 (the “2014 Act”) codifies and sets out the law relating to directors’ duties. Whilst heralded as one of the major innovations of the 2014 Act,1 one must ask is this just a case of the ...
• Improving the measurement of effectiveness in the Irish Youth Justice System: International Review of Youth Justice Systems 

  Reddy, John; Redmond, Sean (2018)

  This report presents the process of selecting systems for inclusion in a review of effectiveness measurement in international youth justice. The review is the second stage of research exploring ways of improving the ...
• Foreword: "Models for Movers" 

  Gray, Breda (Cork University Press, 2015)

  Models for Movers is a unique collection of Irish migrant women's oral histories spanning three waves of twentieth-century emigration, skilfully brought together and contextualised by the author, Ide B. O 'Carroll. The ...
• Nomadic cultures beyond work practices 

  de Carvalho, Aparecido Fabiano Pinatti; Rossitto, Chiara; Lampinen, Airi; Ciolfi, Luigina; Gray, Breda (IISI - International Institute for Socio-Informatics, 2017)

  In this issue we explore the conceptual, analytical and design challenges inherent in the notion of “Nomadic Culture”. The papers included highlight how research on mobility has contributed to the CSCW community, while ...
• Keening the dead: ancient history or a ritual for today? 

  McLaughlin, Mary (MDPI, 2019)

  In his 1909 work ‘Rites De Passage’, Arnold van Gennep acknowledges that a ritual often contains ‘rites within rites’. So, it was with the ancient ritual of the Irish wake, at the center of which was another ritual, that ...
• Reflexion, analysis and language practice: from individual critical thinking to collaborative learning using blogs in a literature class 

  Giralt, Marta; Murray, Liam (Springer, 2019)

  In modern times, blended learners may easily access a high variety of media to express and share their thoughts and opinions with others. These may include typical blog websites such as WordPress.com or blogger.com or ...
• To write or not to write? The contested nature and role of writing in arts practice research 

  Phelan, Helen; Nunan, Mary (Athabasa University Press, 2018)

  One of the most contested areas of arts practice research concerns the nature and role of writing. For many artist-scholars, research predicated on artistic practice does not require written contextualization. For those ...
• Terminology in the grammatical tracts: ciall teasaidheachta 

  Ó Riain, Gordon (Royal Irish Academy, 2018)

  It has been held that the Irish grammatical tracts do not have a term for the relative clause. In this article, previously overlooked terms are identified and the passages in which they occur in the grammatical tracts are ...
• Apprendre l’éducation au féminin 

  Carlini Versini, Dominique (Fabula, 2019)

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