Dr Alan Cusack Addresses Senior Judicial Authorities and Academics at International Conference

Dr. Alan Cusack was invited to deliver a plenary address at a landmark, international conference, entitled “Adversarialism, Voice and Participation in the Criminal Process” which took place at the University of Limerick from 22-23 June 2023.

The event formed part of ‘Mapping the Changing Face of Cross Examination’, a cross-institutional Nottingham Trent and University of Nottingham research project funded by the Nuffield Foundation and hosted by the School of Law at the University of Limerick, and it was intended to provide a forum for academics and practitioners to share their understandings and experiences of witness participation and ‘voice’ within the context of an adversarial criminal justice system.

Dr. Cusack delivered a paper entitled ‘Whither Adversarialism? Tracing Shifts in the Procedural Standing of Vulnerable Victims of Crime in Ireland’.

Other keynote speakers at the event included Lord Beckett (Supreme Court, Scotland), Justice Úna Ní Raifeartaigh (Court of Appeal, Ireland), Justice Paul McDermott (High Court, Ireland), HHJ Sarah Whitehouse KC (Circuit Judge, England) and Professor John Jackson (University of Nottingham) & Professor Jonathan Doak (Nottingham Trent University).