Publication Title:	Criminal Law & Procedure: Current Issues & Emerging Trends
Author:	Professor Ivana Bacik and Dr. Liz Heffernan
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ISBN:	978-1-904480-86-0
Abstract:	This book has its origins in a very successful conference on Developments in Criminal Law and Procedure organised by the editors at Trinity College Dublin in December 2008. It comprises a range of contributions from leading academics and practitioners on a range of topical issues including the right to silence, the European arrest warrant, the taking and retention of forensic samples, and the role of previous convictions in sentencing. The book will provide practitioners, researchers, students and others interested in criminal justice with a review of recent important developments in criminal law and criminal procedure. The emphasis is on providing readers with a comprehensive, practical update on current themes and emerging trends based on analysis of recent legislation and case law, both Irish and European. This book brings together in a single publication analysis of issues in relation to criminal law, criminal procedure and criminal evidence. Criminal justice has been the subject of dramatic change in recent years. This book provides up-to-date scholarly analysis of several of the significant legislative and case law developments from a range of leading experts in the field. Contents 1. Introduction: Current Trends in Criminal Practice - Michael O’Higgins, SC 2. The European Arrest Warrant in Ireland: Surrendering our Standards to a European Criminal Area – Professor Dermot Walsh, director of the Centre for Criminal Justice at the University of Limerick 3. Recent Developments in the Law on Search Warrants – Professor Ivana Bacik 4. The Duty to Preserve Evidence – Dr Liz Heffernan 5. Procedure Update: Garda Investigations and the Use of Evidence at Trial - Yvonne Daly, Lecturer in Law, DCU 6. Recent Changes to the Right of Silence in Europe and the United Kingdom - Professor John Jackson, Dean of School of Law, UCD 7. Sentencing on the Record: Taking Account of Previous Convictions - Tom O’Malley, BL, Senior Lecturer in Law at NUI, Galway 8. Death Upon Impact: Family Victim Impact Statements in Irish Law - Stephen Brady, BCL (Hons), BL, and is currently a candidate for the degree of Masters in Laws at Trinity College, Dublin. 9. Prosecutorial Delay - Patricia Brazil, Patricia Brazil, LL.B., M.Litt, Barrister-at-Law, Averil Deverell Lecturer in Law, Trinity College 10. The Retention of DNA and Fingerprint Data - Dr Liz Heffernan EDITORS: Ivana Bacik, LL.B., LL.M. (Lond), B.L., F.T.C.D., is Reid Professor of Criminal Law, Criminology and Penology at Trinity College Dublin and a practising barrister. She is co-editor (with Michael O’Connell) of Crime and Poverty in Ireland (1998) and co-authored a study on gender in the legal professions (Bacik, Costello and Drew, Gender In Justice, 2003). She was Editor of the Irish Criminal Law Journal between 1997-2003. In 2004, she published a critique of the Irish legal system (Kicking and Screaming: Dragging Ireland into the Twenty-First Century). In 2007 she was elected to Seanad Éireann as an Independent Senator for Dublin University Dr Liz Heffernan, LL.B. (Dublin), LL.M. (Dalhousie), LL.M. & J.S.D. (Chicago), B.L., a lecturer in law and fellow of Trinity College Dublin. She previously taught at Washington and Lee University School of Law, Lexington, Virginia and University College Dublin and is a former Law Clerk at the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, Chicago, and the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Dr. Heffernan’s research is based primarily in the law of Evidence. Her publications include Evidentiary Foundations: Irish Edition (with R. Ryan and E.J. Imwinkelried) (2008), Scientific Evidence: Fingerprints and DNA (2006) and Evidence: Cases and Materials (2005).