Rights NI is delighted to welcome this guest post from Brian Gormally, director of CAJ. “There is a relentless campaign, led by the UK Government and supported by some elements in Northern Ireland, to suppress the truth about the activities of state agents during the conflict. The aim is to ensure impunity for any crimes…Continue reading Relentless campaign to suppress the truth
Author: Donal Lyons
Can HET be Article 2 Compliant? Questions for Her Majesty’s Inspector of Constabulary
We welcome this guest post by Brian Gormally, Director of the Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ) Can HET be Article 2 Compliant? Questions for Her Majesty’s Inspector of Constabulary Introduction In May Brice Dickson, Chair of the NI Policing Board’s Historical Enquiry Team (HET) Working Group, wrote to a number of interested parties…Continue reading Can HET be Article 2 Compliant? Questions for Her Majesty’s Inspector of Constabulary
Enforcing Equality: Training seminar, Friday 27 June 10am, UNISON Offices, Derry/ Londonderry
The Equality Coalition held a training seminar on Friday 4 April in UNISON for members of the Equality Coalition and other NGOs, community groups, voluntary organisations, policy officers and trade unionists. The session looked at how best to make complaints to ensure District Councils, Health Trusts, Education Boards, the Housing Executive, Government Departments etc abide…Continue reading Enforcing Equality: Training seminar, Friday 27 June 10am, UNISON Offices, Derry/ Londonderry
Covert Policing and Ensuring Accountability: Ten Years on from the Cory Collusion Inquiry Reports, where now?
CAJ in partnership with University of Ulster Transitional Justice Institute (TJI) will be hosting the following seminar on Tuesday 1 July 2014 Covert Policing and Ensuring Accountability: Ten Years on from the Cory Collusion Inquiry Reports, where now? Rooms 82A01 and 82A02 University of Ulster Belfast Campus, 9.30am-3pm Background information for the Covert Policing Seminar…Continue reading Covert Policing and Ensuring Accountability: Ten Years on from the Cory Collusion Inquiry Reports, where now?
Sectarianism in Northern Ireland: time for a definition in law
Publication of Equality Coalition commissioned expert paper “Sectarianism in Northern Ireland: time for a definition in law” In light of the plans, as part of the NI Executive’s community relations strategy, to include a definition of sectarianism in local law for the first time, the Equality Coalition has published an expert paper on the subject,…Continue reading Sectarianism in Northern Ireland: time for a definition in law
CAJ’s director Brian Gormally in Washington
CAJ’s director Brian Gormally recently traveled to Washington where he met with a range of public representatives and senior decision makers.
Registered Intermediaries in Northern Ireland
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…Continue reading Registered Intermediaries in Northern Ireland