family law research


ARC Mediation welcomes the launch of the Child Maintenance Guidelines by Minister Jim O’Callaghan today at the Family Justice Development Forum hosted by the Minister in Dublin. The guidelines emerged as a recommendation of the Dept of Social Protection Child Maintenance Group, which ARC founder Dr. Roisin O’Shea served on, […]

ARC welcomes the launch by the Minister of Child Maintenance ...


ARC Mediation Meeting at Waterford office
Arc Mediation is delighted to be a research partner with South East Technological University, who have recently been awarded the tender by the Judicial Council’s Sentencing Information and Guidelines Committee, ‘SCIG’, for a confidential research project. The research project titled ‘Study of District Court Judges’ views on Sentencing & Relationship […]

New Research into Sentencing & Relationship Violence


Dr Roisin O’Shea, Partner Arc Mediation and Dr Sinead Conneely, Law Lecturer at Waterford Institute of Technology have released findings from their research in the District Court, published in the current issue of the Irish Journal of Family law. Citation: ‘Domestic Violence in the District Court’, Irish Journal of Family […]

Domestic Violence in the District Court – Empirical Study by ...