family law


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Dr Róisín O’Shea, Dr Sinéad Conneely and Shane Dempsey, who are experienced family mediators and researchers, have been awarded a contract by the European Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs to do a study on “Use and place of family mediation across Member States’ legal frameworks”; to be completed and ready […]

European Parliament awards research contract on family mediation to Dr ...


By Shane Dempsey, ARC Mediation Partner 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 […]

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 ...


Arc Mediation was invited as one of 12 organisations to make submissions as stakeholders to the Joint Committee on Justice and Equality in relation to reform of the family law system, and in particular looking at the benefits of using mediation to resolve disputes. The committee report was launched today […]

Joint Committee on Justice and Equality recommends mediation for families ...


Dr Roisin O’Shea and colleague Dr Sinead Conneely co-authored a piece on the findings from their research project,  ‘Innovative Family Mediation Research Initiative Embedded in the Community’, which has now been published in the U.S. published and Internationally-read Family Court Review, Vol 57 No. 3, Wiley Publishing. For more information […]

Dr Roisin O’Shea published in US Journal