Speeches & Conferences

Below you can find more information on speeches made at launches throughout the years. You will also find access here to presentations made at our Annual Conferences and reports from seminars held by the Commission:

2020

Commissioner Raymond Byrne, UCD Sutherland School of Law Seminar: "How Codifying the Law Is Our Future Present Or Let’s Talk About Leading Legislation As Well as Leading Cases"

2019

Annual Conference: "Technology and Privacy in the Digital Era & Reform of Sexual Offences Law"

Chair’s opening address: Ms Justice Mary Laffoy, President, Law Reform Commission. Audio - Opening Address
John Danaher, Senior Lecturer in Law in NUI Galway. Audio - Speech Notes - PowerPoint
Moyagh Murdock, CEO of the Road Safety Authority. Audio
Noeline Blackwell, CEO of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre. Audio
Tom O’Malley, Commissioner for the Law Reform Commission. Audio - Speech Notes

Launch of the Report on Knowledge or Belief Concerning Consent in Rape Law

President Ms. Justice Mary Laffoy's remarks

Launch of the Report on Privilege for Reports of Court Proceedings under the Defamation Act 2009

Launch of the Fifth Programme of Law Reform

Brian Lenihan Memorial Address: delivered by President Mary Laffoy 9 February 2019

2019 Brian Lenihan Memorial Address, delivered by the President of the Commission, Ms Justice Mary Laffoy, on 9 February 2019 in Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin. The Brian Lenihan Memorial Address is held annually and marks the substantial contribution of Brian Lenihan (1959- 2011) to Irish public life as well as his longstanding connection to the Trinity College Law School as a student, scholar and later as a lecturer.

2018

Annual Conference: " Brexit and Law Reform in Ireland"

Chair’s opening address: Ms Justice Mary Laffoy, President, Law Reform Commission. Opening Address - Audio
Keynote Speaker Advocate General Gerard Hogan, Court of Justice of the European Union. Speech Notes - Audio
Patrick Leonard, SC , Bar Council of Ireland. PowerPoint - Audio
Professor Blanaid Clarke, McCann Fitzgerald Chair in Corporate Law, Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin. PowerPoint - Audio
Professor Federico Fabbrini, Full Professor of EU Law Director , DCU Brexit Institute. Audio
Maree Gallagher Solicitor, Covington and Burling. PowerPoint - Audio
Ken Murphy Director General, Law Society of Ireland. PowerPoint - Audio
Professor Christopher McCrudden, Professor of Human Rights and Equality Law, Queen's University Belfast Speech Notes - PowerPoint - Audio

Launch of Report on Regulatory Powers and Corporate Offences

Remarks of the Attorney General Seamus Woulfe SC

Launch of Draft Inventory of International Agreements entered into by the State

Remarks by James Kingston, Legal Advisor, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

2017

Annual Conference: "The Law Reform Commission’s Fifth Programme of Law Reform"

Chairs Opening Address, Mr Justice John Quirke, President, Law Reform Commission. Opening Address
Address of the Hon. Mr Justice Frank Clarke, Chief Justice of Ireland, to the Law Reform Commission Annual Conference - Speaker: Mr Justice Frank Clarke, Chief Justice of Ireland. Speech Notes
The Future of Ireland's Legal System - Speaker: Senator Michael McDowell SC. Speech Notes
Conference Audio
Speaker: Ms Dearbhail McDonald, Group Business Editor, Independent News and Media.

2016

Annual Conference 2016: "Regulatory Powers and Corporate Offences"

2015

Launch of Report on Search Warrants and Bench Warrants

Speech by Judge William Hamill

Seminar on Cybercrime

Welcome Address: Commissioner Finola Flanagan
Keynote Address: The Hon. Mr Justice Michael Tugendhat: Online Privacy
Mary Aiken: Professor and Director at the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland CyberPsychology Research Centre
Brian O'Neill: Head of the School of Media at Dublin Institute of Technology
Michael McDowell SC: Barrister, Senior Counsel
Detective Sergeant Jennifer Molony: Detective Sergeant with the Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Investigation Unit of the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation
Sinead McSweeney: Senior Director of Public Policy for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at Twitter (We will not receive a copy of the Twitter presentation per Twitter policy)
Jennifer Schweppe: Lecturer in law at the University of Limerick
Fergal Crehan, BL: Barrister with expertise in Privacy and Data Protection Law
Ian Power: Executive Director at SpunOut.ie, a not for profit website created by young people for young people.

2014

Seminar Paper on Disclosure and Discovery

Project 2 in the Commission's Fourth Programme of Law Reform involved a review of the law on disclosure and discovery in criminal cases. In March 2014, the Commission published an Issues Paper on Disclosure and Discovery in Criminal Cases (LRC IP 5-2014) which sought views in relation to the questions raised in the project. As part of this consultation process the Commission held a public seminar on Disclosure and Discovery in Criminal Cases on 21 May 2014. This report is a summary of the discussion at the seminar. The views of those who spoke at the seminar were considered alongside the written submissions received by the Commission when considering recommendations for inclusion in its Report on Disclosure and Discovery in Criminal Cases, published in 2014