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Foreword The absence of reliable, comprehensive information on deaths in custody within this jurisdiction has long stuck me as lamentable. This project emerged from a conversa-tion between Prof. Shane Kilcommins and me ...

White-collar crime has become an area of significant interest for academics, practitioners, policy makers, and those with an interest in corporate affairs. However, this sudden surge of interest lacks a tradition of ...

This paper considers the scope of the range of protected victim categories in hate crime legislation, and considers the application of the principle of certainty in this context.

This chapter documents some of the legislative and policy developments relating to victims’ rights in Ireland, Internationally, there has been growing recognition of the interests and needs of victims in the criminal justice ...

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 ...

The rules governing the distribution of an intestate estate applied pursuant to section 46 of the Administration of Estates Act 1925 as amended by section 1 of the Inheritance and Trustee's Powers Act 2014 ensure very ...

It has always struck me when asking postgraduate law students to write research proposals in which they should work through the core elements – question, structure, methodology, originality/location in the literature – how ...

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The commission of criminal offences has conventionally been responded to by the criminal justice system with the imposition of punishment in the form of a term of imprisonment, which may be accompanied by a pecuniary ...