Matthew Holmes is a practising barrister and has written for the Irish Times, the Bar Review, and the Law Society Gazette, amongst other publications. He is the author of the Nutshells on Administrative Law, the Nutshells on EU law, and the forthcoming Nutshells on …Read More
National Vetting Bureau Act 2012
What are ‘excluded offences’ under the vetting legislation?
Caesar and Brutus. Romeo and Juliet. Sometimes two things are just inextricably linked to each other. And that’s the same in what we’re looking at today: “Section 14A” & “Schedule 3” – excluded offences under the vetting legislation.Section 14A & Schedule 3 depend on each other in …Read More
Reporting For Duty: Scheduled Organisations & Specified Information
There are a number of professional or regulatory organisations who must have their wits about them, due to increased reporting requirements under the vetting legislation.This week we look at Schedule 2 of the National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Acts 2012 – 2016. The title of …Read More
The work or activity that will trigger vetting
We’re continuing our dive into the National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Acts 2012 – 2016. There are three Schedules to the vetting legislation. In today’s essay, we look at Schedule 1.The Schedules exist for one main purpose. People and organisations carry out a wide …Read More
It shouldn’t happen to a vetting officer
A version of this essay by Matthew Holmes first appeared in the Law Society Gazette and is republished with the kind permission of the editor of the Law Society Gazette. Matthew Holmes is a practising barrister, lecturer at the Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) …Read More
Transitional Vetting & Future Fees
This week we’re continuing our dive into the Irish National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Acts 2012 – 2016, having a look at section 31 and 32 that, collectively, deal with legacy vetting applications, and the fact that vetting may become a paid-for service in …Read More
P.S. to Section 28 | Change of Name | Effective Service of Notices
In our essay last week we went on a whistle-stop tour of Section 28 of the Irish vetting legislation, the National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Acts 2012 – 2016.This week we’re looking at 3 new areas:
(1) an important post-script to Section 28 …Read More
Whistle Stop 8-Part Tour of Section 28 Liability
This essay provides a whistle-stop 8-stop tour to the crux of the Irish vetting legislation: Section 28.Section 28 of the Irish vetting legislation is the section that criminalises the conduct of the senior management team in an organisation, where that team has allowed the …Read More
Prove It – Section 28 Liability And The Requirement For Proof
This week, we’re looking at how, for a Section 28 personal criminal liability to attach to a member of the senior management team, there’s requirement for there to be actual evidence that proves senior management consented to, connived with, or through their wilful neglect, allowed their …Read More
The Personality Test: Who’s Who in Section 28 Liability
This week, we’re looking at the ‘who’s who’ of section 28, to find out if a person’s role within a charity or organisation could place them in the crosshairs of the section 28 trigger.In our most recent essay, Part 6 of our current review of Section …Read More
