martin haverty

City galway
Country ireland
Business/Org Restorative Justice Consultancy
Website http://www.restorativejusticeonline.ie

I work with the National Commission on Restorative Justice in Ireland as lead researcher. We are a recently established organisation which are in the progress of completing our final report on restorative justice, particularly in terms of how restorative justice can be applied in an irish context.

My educational backgound is primarily in the area of criminal justice, and my main interests are in the areas of restorative justice and victimology.

Please feel free to visit my website which is currently under construction. It will, upon completion, provide information and training solutions to interested bodies and individuals on restorative justice, particularly as it can be applied in their daily working lives and their organisations.

My Articles

Restorative Justice; Present and future Considerations in Ireland

16 Jan 2009
martin haverty

In recent years restorative justice has come to exert a growing influence in many countries, both peripherally and within various criminal justice systems . It has grown from a few scattered experimental projects, into a social movement and an identifiable field of practice and study. While restorative justice is provided for in this jurisdiction, its application is confined to juvenile offenders, and two pilot projects at adult level.

Natural Law in Irish Jurisprudence

28 Jun 2009
martin haverty

Traditional natural law is based on value judgements, which emanate from some absolute source e.g. God’s revealed word. However the term “natural law” lacks a precise definition, and there is “very little agreement, even among experts or proponents of natural law theory about its application to specific, complex, moral, or legal issues”1.
The basic premise of natural law is that rights exist, which inhere in man because of his rational nature, and not because of any purported grant of right.