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Blackhall conference to provide family-law overview

The Family and Child Law conference 2024, organised by Law Society Professional Training, will take place on Friday 6 December (10am to 2.30pm).

The event, which will examine recent developments in core areas of family-law practice and childcare-law practice, will be held in the Green Hall, Law Society, Blackhall Place, Dublin 7.

The conference, which is worth 2.5 general and 1.5 client care and professional standards CPD hours (by group study), is open for registration.

The objective is to provide practitioners with a concise and essential overview of recent developments and the implications for day-to-day client advice, practice, and procedure.

Topics and speakers

The topics to be covered include:

• Case-law update,
• Barnahus: An inter-agency response model for child sexual abuse,
• Regulation and the family/child-law practice: AML and SARs in family-law files,
• Trauma-informed practice for family-law solicitors,
• Assisted human reproduction and surrogacy,
• Interaction between section 138 of the Assisted Decision-Making Act 2015 and family-law proceedings,
• Ethical considerations for the family-law practitioner,
• Family Courts Act 2024.

Ms Justice Nuala Jackson will chair the conference.

The speakers are:

• Gerard Durcan SC,
• Fiona Geraghty (Tusla manager of Barnahus South, Cork),
• Julie O’Donnell (social worker, Tusla),
• Antoinette Moriarty (head of Law Society Psychological Services),
• Peter Doyle (Doyle Fox & Associates),
• Emma Slattery BL,
• Brendan Dillon (Dillon Solicitors LLP),
• Simon Treanor (Legal Services Regulation Executive, Law Society),
• Jim Ryan ROPC (accountant),
• Fiona Duffy (partner, Patrick F O'Reilly and Company Solicitors).