New Legal Challenges for School Principals and Teachers ...



LEGAL ISSUES FACING SCHOOL PRINCIPALS

AND TEACHERS IN 2008:

SOME PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS

SATURDAY, 1 MARCH 2008

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Programme AND CONTENTS:

9:30 Des and Ray Ryan: Stress Claims in the context of Schools: New Approaches in the Courts

10:15 Neville Cox: Health, Safety and Sport: How Schools Can Best Deal with their Legal Responsibilities

10:50 Tea / Coffee Break

11:10 Gerry Whyte: New Issues of Equality and Non-Discrimination in Schools

11:45 Dympna Glendenning: Section 29 Appeals: Has the Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2007 Made a Difference?

12:20 Questions and Discussion

12:45 Lunch Break

1:45 Dr. Ciarán Craven: Mobile/Camera Phones, and Social Networking Sites: New Issues for School Management

2:20 William Binchy: New Family Structures: the School’s Relations with Unmarried, Separated or Divorced Parents of Pupils

2:55 Questions and Discussion

3:15 Conference Ends

APPENDICES:

Corr v IBC Vehicles Ltd [2008] UKHL 13

The G Case [2007] IESC 55

McGrath v Trintech [2005] E.L.R. 49

Maher v Jabil [2005] E.L.R. 233

MM v Newlands School and Anr [2007] EWCA Civ 21

A Student v City of Dublin Vocational Education Committee, DEC-S2007-089 – Full Case Report

A v A Primary School, DEC-S2006-028 – Case Summary

Maher v Board of Management, DEC-E2006-019 – Full Case Report

The right to substitute and rearrange lectures is reserved

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About the Speakers:

William Binchy is Regius Professor of Laws at Trinity College Dublin and a member of the Irish Human Rights Commission. He is co-author of a textbook on tort law and co-editor, with Dr. Ciarán Craven, of The Civil Liability and Courts Act 2004: Implications for Personal Injuries Litigation and the Quarterly Review of Tort Law. He is co-editor (with Dr. Dympna Glendenning) of Litigation Against Schools: Implications for School Management, published by FirstLaw in Spring 2006.

Dr. Neville Cox is a barrister and is a lecturer in law at Trinity College Dublin.  He is the author of Defamation Law, published in 2007 and co-author of Sport and the Law, published in 2004.  He lectures in, amongst other subjects, Sports Law and Defamation Law.

Dr Ciarán Craven is a practising barrister. He lectures on medical law in the LL.M Degree Programme at Trinity College, Dublin. He is co-author of Psychiatry and the Law and co-editor (with William Binchy) of The Civil Liability and Courts Act 2004: Implications for Personal Injuries Litigation and the Quarterly Review of Tort Law.

Dr. Dympna Glendenning B.A., M.Ed., Ph.D. is a practising barrister.  In an earlier career, she was a primary school teacher and school principal.  She is author of Education and the Law, published by Butterworths in 1999 and co-editor of Litigation Against Schools: Implications for School Management published by FirstLaw in 2006.

Des Ryan is a Lecturer in Law at Trinity College Dublin, where he teaches Employment Litigation to Masters level students. He holds first class honours law degrees from Trinity College and from Oxford University, and was formerly a Foundation Scholar and Gold Medallist of the Law School at Trinity College Dublin. He has published widely in a number of journals, including the Irish Employment Law Journal.

Ray Ryan is a practising Barrister. He holds the degrees of Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) and Master of Laws (LL.M.) from Trinity College, Dublin and is a Scholar of the College.

Gerry Whyte is Associate Professor of Law and Dean of Students at Trinity College Dublin. He is author of Social Inclusion and the Legal System: Public Interest Law in Ireland, published by the Institute of Public Administration in 2002, co-author of Irish Trade Union Law and co-editor of the fourth edition of John Kelly's The Irish Constitution published in 2003.  He is also actively involved with various NGOs targeting social exclusion.

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