Mother And Baby Homes

The Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Inquiry has recovered recordings of testimony from around 550 survivors which it said had been destroyed. A major legal row developed earlier this month after the commission, which was established in 2015 and published its final report last month, said it had

Women and families affected by mother and baby homes should play a key role in drafting a new law to provide dignified burials for victims left in mass graves, the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission has said. The rights watchdog has provided an Oireachtas committee with 25 specific recommend

A major legal row has developed following the destruction of recordings of testimony from around 550 survivors of mother and baby homes. The Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Inquiry, which was established in 2015 and published its final report last month, said it had destroyed the files in advanc

Lawyers have called for a statutory public inquiry into mother and baby homes in Northern Ireland following the publication of new research. The Northern Ireland Executive yesterday promised a "full independent investigation" after publishing historical research it commissioned from a team of academ

Dr David Kenny, assistant professor of law at Trinity College Dublin, argues the government's legal advice on the rights of adopted children is flawed and a referendum on the matter is not needed. As the country comes to grips with the report of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission and reckons yet a

Rights groups have called on the State to "rectify the wrongs done" to women and children following the publication of the long-awaited final report of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation. The inquiry was established in 2015 to provide a full account of what happened to vulnerable

Lawyers and rights campaigners have called for the establishment of a public inquiry into mother and baby homes in Northern Ireland. The Irish government yesterday published the final report of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Inquiry established in 2015, which looked at mother and baby homes

A leak from the Mother and Baby Homes Commission has undermined the confidence of victims and survivors in its work, lawyers have said. Belfast-based KRW LAW LLP, which represents a number of people and survivor groups who gave evidence to the Commission, issued a statement after its final report wa

As part of its pro bono advisory work for the CLANN Project, a joint initiative with Adoption Rights Alliance (ARA) and JFM Research, Hogan Lovells has welcomed the Irish Government’s announcement on access to information for those affected by historical abuses in the Mother and Baby Homes in

President Michael D. Higgins has signed the Mother and Baby Homes Bill into law while highlighting that the concerns raised over it "are serious and must be addressed". A statement issued on Sunday night states that the President "has followed the passage of this Bill through both Houses of the Oire

Children's Minister Roderic O’Gorman has committed to a "re-examination" of the controversial mother and baby homes legislation after saying it is “impossible to ignore” the thousands of letters that he has received on the issue. He said there is an “obligation to look beyond

Government plans to seal records from the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes for 30 years are not "necessary and proportionate", the Irish Women Lawyers Association (IWLA) has said. The government recently set out its legislative plans for the "safeguarding" of the commission's r

Legislation intended to safeguard records from the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes has been approved by ministers. Children's Minister Roderic O'Gorman yesterday received government approval for the text of the Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain rel

Former police officer Judith Gillespie has been appointed for a one-year term as the new independent chair on an inter-departmental working group on Mother and Baby Homes, Magdalene laundries and historical clerical child abuse. Ms Gillespie is the third person named as chair of the troubled group,

The deadline for written submissions on the general scheme of the bill providing for the phased excavation of the mass child burial site at Tuam has been extended. The Oireachtas joint committee on children and youth affairs will accept submissions from interested groups or individuals until Friday