Children’s Court ‘failing many young people’

A NEW system to deal with young offenders is urgently needed, according to one of Ireland’s leading experts in juvenile justice.

The common practice of their solicitors taking instructions moments before a case is “totally unacceptable”, says Dr Ursula Kilkelly , a member of the Law Faculty of UCC and an expert in juvenile justice.

According to Dr Kilkelly, the Children’s Court system is failing many young people and causing them to enter an endless cycle of offending.