Registered Intermediaries in Northern Ireland

by Donal Lyons on March 5, 2014

We are delighted to welcome this guest post from John Taggart.  John is currently completing his barrister pupillage in The Bar Library in Belfast.   Introduction Since the promulgation of The Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 certain witnesses have been recognised as ‘vulnerable’ thus making them ‘eligible for assistance on the grounds of […]

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UK arrest of Moazzam Begg, ex Guantanamo Bay detainee – Belfast event

by Anna Morvern on February 26, 2014

I am concerned to hear of the arrest of Moazzam Begg, former Guantanamo Bay detainee. Here is an article that I wrote for Amnesty International’s blog, “Belfast and Beyond”, when Moazzam Begg spoke about his experiences alongside Guantanamo former military guard at St Mary’s University College in Belfast in 2009. I haven’t followed the work […]

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Call for applications: LLMs at the Transitional Justice Institute

February 24, 2014

Transitional Justice Institute University of Ulster Call for Applications for academic year 2014-15 1.       LLM Human Rights Law and Transitional Justice 2.       LLM Gender, Conflict and Human Rights Full information:  http://www.transitionaljustice.ulster.ac.uk/tji_intro_llm.html Entry Conditions: Applications are invited from graduates in Law (or a related discipline with relevant experience) who have attained or are about to attain […]

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AMNESTIES, PROSECUTIONS AND REPARATIONS

February 19, 2014

We are delighted to welcome this guest post from Luke Moffett.  Luke Moffett is a lecturer in the School of Law Queens University Belfast. He is currently working on an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded project entitled Amnesties, Prosecutions and the Public Interest in the Northern Ireland transition. With colleagues at Queens (Kieran […]

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Amnesties, Prosecutions and Victims’ Right to Justice

February 18, 2014

We are delighted to welcome this guest post by Louise Mallinder. Louise Mallinder is currently working on an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) project entitled Amnesties, Prosecutions and the Public Interest in the Northern Ireland transition. With colleagues at Queens (Kieran McEvoy, Gordon Anthony and Luke Moffett) and local NGO Healing Through Remembering, the project […]

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Amnesties, Prosecutions and the Right to Truth

February 17, 2014

We are delighted to welcome this guest post by Louise Mallinder. Louise Mallinder is currently working on an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) project entitled Amnesties, Prosecutions and the Public Interest in the Northern Ireland transition. With colleagues at Queens (Kieran McEvoy, Gordon Anthony and Luke Moffett) and local NGO Healing Through Remembering, the project […]

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Finucane: 25 years of waiting for the truth

February 12, 2014

Twenty-five years ago today, loyalist gunmen sledge-hammered their way into the Belfast home of lawyer Patrick Finucane and shot him dead in front of his wife and young children. Since then, compelling evidence has emerged to show that UK state agents were involved in the killing. Those who directed and took part in the attack […]

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Time to embrace Haass on ‘the past’

February 5, 2014

Standing on the shore at Newcastle during the recent tidal surges, I watched wave after wave crashing over the harbour wall. The wall, otherwise imposing on a clear day, seemed a puny human artifice as it was battered by the tide and overcome by the power of the stormy sea. Just so, with our past. […]

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UN Rapporteur Report Calls for North Belfast Housing Inequality to be tackled

February 3, 2014

The UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing today released the Report of her Official Mission to the UK. In the report, the Rapporteur Ms. Raquel Rolnik includes a section specifically on housing inequality that impacts the Catholic community in North Belfast, and calls for ‘concerted efforts’ to address the situation. Ms. Rolnik states: “In […]

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Opportunity: Venice Based Masters in Human Rights and Democraticisation

January 27, 2014

The European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC) is accepting applications for the 18th edition of the European Master’s Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation (E.MA). E.MA provides students with the opportunity to share knowledge and skills with leading scholars from 41 prestigious European Universities and renowned Human Rights experts, in the classroom […]

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PhD Funding opportunities

January 21, 2014

Queen’s University and the University of Ulster have both recently announced funding opportunities for persons interested in doing a PhD. Details of the QUB funding is available at http://www.law.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofLaw/StudyattheSchool/PostgraduateStudies/Scholarships/. Details of the Ulster funding is at http://research.ulster.ac.uk/info/prospective/funding.html Potential applicants are advised to consult the list of staff interests and to consult potential supervisors well in […]

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When does the EU Charter of Rights apply to private parties?

January 16, 2014

We are delighted to welcome this guest post by Prof Steve Peers, University of Essex. This was originally posted at http://eulawanalysis.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/when-does-eu-charter-of-rights-apply-to.html The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has further clarified the circumstances in which the EU’s Charter of Rights can be invoked against private parties. In Case C-176/12 Association de Mediation Sociale (AMS), trade […]

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