Crime and punishment: teaching our children about the law

Barrister Paulyn Marrinan Quinn is on the case to open young minds to the law with her new book, What Does Law Mean, Mumu? Rowena Walsh finds out more

Paulyn Marrinan Quinn SC, former Ombudsman for the Defence Forces and former Insurance Ombudsman has written a new book aimed at younger readers entitled What Does The Law Mean Mumu?Picture: Moya Nolan

JK Rowling’s Harry Potter is the unlikely inspiration for the debut book by barrister and former Insurance Ombudsman Paulyn Marrinan Quinn.

She was chatting to her then nine-year-old granddaughter about the young wizard’s adventures and she thought that if young minds can understand JK Rowling’s convoluted plot, then maybe they could understand some of the finer points of law.