Closing webinars of EmpRiSe project

On 28-29 June 2021 we held two successful webinars, which marked the end of the EmpRiSe project. The webinars, attended by about 100 participants, brought together academics, policy-makers and practitioners to discuss issues around the protection of the right to silence in police interrogations from an interdisciplinary perspective and investigate possibilities for an EU action. The first webinar discussed the national findings

EmpRiSe Ireland Report

The right to silence is a constitutionally protected right in the Irish legal system and is a critical component of the right to a fair trial. Its rationale is linked to the broader concept of the presumption of innocence, ensuring that the burden is on the state to prove that an individual has committed an

EmpRiSe Panel at SLSA 2021 Conference

On 31 March 2021 the EmpRiSe project team (Professor Yvonne Daly, Diletta Marchesi and Dr Anna Pivaty) presented the preliminary results of the empirical research in the Netherlands and Ireland viewed against the background of our comparative legal findings from Belgium, Ireland, Italy and the Netherlands in a pre-arranged panel ‘Police Interrogations: The Guilty Sound