Key Contemporary Legal Challenges for Post-Primary Schools Management: Bullying, Pupils' Welfare and Employment Issues

WILLIAM BINCHY is a practising barrister. He is co-author with the Hon. Mr. Justice Bryan McMahon of Irish Law of Torts, the fourth edition (forthcoming).

PROFESSOR NEVILLE COX BL LL.B., Ph.D., (Dub.), Barrister, is Associate Professor and a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin. He is author of, amongst other books, Defamation Law (2008), and co-author of Employment Law in Ireland (2009). He is Director of the Master of Laws degree programmes at Trinity.

DR. DYMPNA GLENDENNING BL is a practising barrister and a former primary school teacher and principal. She is author of Religion, Education and the Law (Tottel, 2008), Education and the Law, 2nd ed, Bloomsbury, 2012 and co-editor (with William Binchy) of Litigation against Schools: Implications for School Management (Firstlaw, 2006).

PROFESSOR MONA O'MOORE, M.A. (Child and Educational Psychology, University of Nottingham), Ph.D. from Edinburgh University, is a Fellow of Trinity College. Professor O’Moore was formerly the Head of School of Education and is the founder and co-ordinator of the Anti-Bullying Research and Resource Unit at Trinity College Dublin. She was the Rapporteur of the first European seminar on school bullying, writing up the Report for the Council of Europe, 1987. She was a member of the Ministerial working party which drew up the National Guidelines in Countering Bullying in Primary and Post Primary Schools in Ireland in 1993. Since then she conducted the first Nationwide Study of School bullying and Workplace bullying in Ireland. She has been a member of ten European research partnerships, one of which has been the COST Action on Cyber-bullying (COST IS 0801) which had 27 European countries working together on the theme together with Israel and Australia. She is currently a member of the European project on racial bullying (ARBAX) and one on countering workplace bullying for people with intellectual difficulties (Let me be Me). She has published widely, in particular in the area of school bullying. She is co-author of “Dealing with Bullying In Schools: A Training Manual for Teachers, Parents and Other Professionals” (2004, Paul Chapman Publishing) and author of “Understanding School Bullying: A Guide for Parents and Teachers” (Veritas, 2010). She has been also one of the main authors of the Cost Action “Guidelines on Preventing Cyber-bullying in the School Environment”.

DR. DES RYAN BL is a practising barrister specialising in Employment Law and a Lecturer in Employment Law at Trinity College Dublin. Co-author of Employment Law in Ireland (2009), he has published widely on Employment Law in a number of journals, including the Irish Employment Law Journal, and is the Employment Law correspondent for the Thomson Round Hall Annual Review of Irish Law. He advises on all aspects of employment litigation.

PROFESSOR GERRY WHYTE is Professor of Law at Trinity College Dublin.  He is author of Social Inclusion and the Legal System: Public Interest Law in Ireland, published by the Institute of Public Administration in 2002, co-author of Irish Trade Union Law and co-editor of the fourth edition of John Kelly's The Irish Constitution.  He is also actively involved with various NGOs targeting social exclusion.