Category: Inquiries & The Past

Developing Gender Principles for Dealing with the Legacy of the Past

Guest PostGender & Sex

We are delighted to welcome this guest post.  Dr Catherine O’Rourke is Senior Lecturer in Human Rights and International Law at Ulster University Transitional Justice Institute (TJI). Philipp Schulz is a PhD student at the TJI.  Initiatives to deal with the past in Britain and Ireland have been characterised by the absence of any official…Continue reading Developing Gender Principles for Dealing with the Legacy of the Past

Independence, Inadmissibility and Information Verification in the Independent Commission on Information Retrieval Proposals- Guest post by Professor Louise Mallinder

Guest PostCivil Liberties

On 23 September 2015, the Northern Ireland Office (NIO) published a policy paper outlining the measures to be included in the Northern Ireland (Stormont House Agreement) Bill that will be presented to Parliament on 12 October 2015. This Bill will legislate for a number of commitments made by the UK government in the Stormont House…Continue reading Independence, Inadmissibility and Information Verification in the Independent Commission on Information Retrieval Proposals- Guest post by Professor Louise Mallinder

The Stormont House Oral History Archive, PRONI, and the Meaning of Independence- Guest Post by Dr Anna Bryson

Guest PostCivil Liberties

We are delighted to welcome this guest post by Dr Anna Bryson. Anna is a Research Fellow at the School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast. A historian by training, she is currently working on an international research project on Lawyers, Conflict and Transition. Her most recent publication (with Sean McConville) is The Routledge Guide to…Continue reading The Stormont House Oral History Archive, PRONI, and the Meaning of Independence- Guest Post by Dr Anna Bryson

Having your cake and eating it? Torture and the laws of war in Northern Ireland- Guest Post by Christina Verdirame

Guest PostInquiries & The Past

Materials discovered in recent years in the UK national archives in London have revealed evidence relevant in the ECHR 1978 Ireland V UK ‘Hooded Men’ case. The significance of this for the Ireland v UK case and the wider implications of the material have been covered in previous posts by Christopher Stanley here and here.The…Continue reading Having your cake and eating it? Torture and the laws of war in Northern Ireland- Guest Post by Christina Verdirame

Advocate-counsellor: Ensure fair and equal representation of victims in the Historical Investigation Unit and Independent Commission for Information Retrieval

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We are delighted to welcome this guest post from Dr Luke Moffett, QUB School of Law. Luke can be reached at l.moffett@qub.ac.uk. On Monday 18th May 2015 the Transitional Justice Institute hosted a conference ‘Dealing with the Past in Northern Ireland: Implementing the Stormont House Agreement’ in conjunction with Amnesty International, Committee on the Administration of Justice…Continue reading Advocate-counsellor: Ensure fair and equal representation of victims in the Historical Investigation Unit and Independent Commission for Information Retrieval

Why is the debate on dealing with the past in Northern gender blind?

Guest PostGender & Sex

We are delighted to welcome this guest post by Andreé Murphy of Relatives for Justice. Andreé can be reached at andree@relativesforjustice.com. This was originally posted on the Eamonn Mallie blog at http://eamonnmallie.com/2015/05/why-is-the-debate-on-dealing-with-the-past-in-northern-gender-blind-by-andree-murphy/.  This is an argument for a concerted effort to make gender a specific and identifiable matter of concern within the Stormont House Agreement.…Continue reading Why is the debate on dealing with the past in Northern gender blind?

Could the NI Assembly legislate for the Haass ‘Historic Investigations Unit’?

Daniel HolderInquiries & The Past

November 2014 has witnessed some interesting statements. At a TJI conference the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Nils Muižnieks, made it abundantly clear that the UK state cannot wash its hands of its Article 2 obligations by delegating them down to the devolved institutions and refusing to fund them.  The Lord Chief Justice,…Continue reading Could the NI Assembly legislate for the Haass ‘Historic Investigations Unit’?

Resourcing and Policing the Past in the North of Ireland

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Rights NI is delighted to welcome this guest post from Christopher Stanley of KRW  LAW LLP   There is now an emphasis in this jurisdiction that public sector finances will be directed toward Policing the Present and not Policing the Past. This was made clear in the financial statement of the Minister of Justice David…Continue reading Resourcing and Policing the Past in the North of Ireland