Ronan McCrea: Is the United Kingdom a Mini-EU?
The United Kingdom is to leave the European Union, partly in order to protect the right to self-government of the UK as a nation state as expressed through the sovereignty … Continue reading
Colin Harvey: Complex Constitutionalism in a Pluralist UK
Constitutional Pluralism If constitutional pluralism is taken seriously, then the voters of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland delivered a complicated message to the Westminster Parliament and … Continue reading
Sionaidh Douglas-Scott: British withdrawal from the EU: an existential threat to the United Kingdom?
The Conservative party’s proposal to repeal the Human Rights Act (and their proposal’s many faults) has already been well documented. However, as Roger Masterman has already pointed out on this … Continue reading
Christopher McCrudden: Equality and the Good Friday Agreement: Fifteen Years On
The Northern Ireland peace agreement was born on the 10th April 1998, Good Friday, in Belfast and will thus celebrate its 15th birthday next week. One of the central elements … Continue reading
Brice Dickson and Colin Harvey: Options on the way forward for human rights in Northern Ireland
Advice on a Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland, submitted to the Secretary of State by the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission in 2008, was roundly rejected by the UK … Continue reading
Colin Harvey: Reconstructing the ‘Political Constitution’ of Northern Ireland
For reasons that are not difficult to grasp, the constitutional process in Northern Ireland has been marked by fragility and instability. The entity ‘Northern Ireland’ – carved out in the … Continue reading
Christopher McCrudden: Scottish Independence Referendum: the Northern Ireland and international human rights law dimensions
Nick Barber’s post on a Scottish referendum raises many interesting issues, not least the implications of setting the issue in the context of British constitutional development as a whole. He … Continue reading
Gordon Anthony: Axa – A view from Northern Ireland
It is a little over 6 weeks since the Supreme Court delivered its long-awaited ruling in Axa General Insurance v Lord Advocate [2011] UKSC 46. Although the ruling was of … Continue reading
Christine Bell: Bills of Rights and Devolution: From the Universal to the Particular.
‘To produce one Bill of rights may be regarded as a misfortune. To produce eight, looks like carelessness’. This blog picks up on Nicholas Barber’s blog of September 11, 2011. … Continue reading
Colin Harvey: Where now for the Northern Ireland Bill of Rights Process?
The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC) submitted its advice on a Bill of Rights on 10th December 2008 (I should declare that I served as a human rights commissioner … Continue reading
