This course is now full. Please email lspt@lawsociety.ie to be placed on a wait list in case of cancellations. 

This seminar is held in conjunction with the European Lawyers Foundation (ELF), Spanish Bar Association, Athens Bar Association, Italian Bar Association, Polish Bar of Attorneys-at-Law, Cyprus Bar Association and Paris Bar Association and is co-funded by the European Union.

Aim and objectives
Migration towards the EU is a complex socio-economic phenomenon that is evolving fast and in various directions. The current migratory situation creates difficulties not only in relation to the management of huge flows of migrants but also in ensuring protection of their fundamental rights. 

This becomes even more important when the migrants are vulnerable groups because, as highlighted by the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), their vulnerability makes them more exposed to violence, exploitation and human trafficking, as well as physical, psychological and sexual abuse.
 
This one-day seminar aims to train Irish lawyers on EU immigration and asylum law, with a particular focus on vulnerable groups of migrants.

This conference is suitable for: solicitors familiar with immigration issues and experienced working with groups of vulnerable migrants. Those who attended the TRALIM conference, held at the Law Society on 9 March 2023, would also find this particularly useful as it advances the subject matter.

• The European framework (EU, CoE, ECtHR) in relation to vulnerable migrants
• Migrant workers: trafficking and labour exploitation
• Migrant children and migrant families
• Migrant women and migrant LGBTI+
• Migrants with disability, elderly migrants and migrants with diseases and trauma
• Migrants with individual types of vulnerability

Chairperson

Cindy Carroll, Deputy Chairperson, International Protection Appeals Tribunal

Speakers 

Antonis Seroff, Legal Advisor, Office of the Law Commissioner, Republic of Cyprus

Further details of speakers from France and Cyprus to be followed

• This is an in-person event and will not be available online or as a recording.
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• Solicitors are required to complete 20 hours CPD this year of which 5 hours must be undertaken in person. Please see https://www.lawsociety.ie/Solicitors/rules-legislation/CPD-Scheme/2023-cycle  
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