| Company Secretary Dr W. G. McCarney, OBE, JP 175, Andersonstown Road Belfast BT11 9EA Northern Ireland Tel: +44 28 90 615164 Fax: +44 28 90 618374 E-mail: w.mccarney@btconnect.com |
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Dr Willie McCarney, OBE, JP Dr McCarney has been a Lay Magistrate (a part-time, voluntary role) in Northern Ireland for the past 29 years. He sits in the Youth Court dealing with young offenders aged 10 to 17 and in the Family Proceedings Court dealing with children in need of care and protection aged 0 to 17. Dr McCarney is a Justice of the Peace for the City of Belfast. He is a psychologist who taught for 13 years in Secondary Schools in Northern Ireland where he concentrated on working with disaffected, underachieving, boys aged 11-18 years old. He then moved to St Mary’s College, a Department of the Queens University of Belfast, which concentrates on teacher training. He lectured there for 21 years and his task was to show future teachers how informal teaching methods could help disaffected young people, preventing them from dropping out of school and keep them from getting on the wrong side of the law. Dr McCarney has edited a number of books and is author of numerous articles on youth justice and child welfare. He is Editor of the Northern Ireland Youth and Family Courts Association’s ‘Lay Panel Magazine’ and Editor-in-Chief of the Chronicle – the magazine of the International Association of Youth and Family Judges and Magistrates. Dr McCarney is a past Chairman of the Northern Ireland Youth and Family Courts Association and a past Chairman of the British Juvenile and Family Courts Society (now renamed Children Law UK). He was elected President of the International Association of Youth and Family Judges and Magistrates at their Congress in Melbourne, Australia, in October 2002 and will serve until the next Congress in 2006. ↑ Return to Top ↑ |