A solicitor who campaigned successfully for couples who experience a miscarriage to receive two weeks of unpaid leave has said she will continue until it becomes paid.Keeley Lengthorn, a partner at RWK Goodman in London, said she
Northern Ireland’s so-called marching season is usually petering out by now. This year looks to be different. On Sunday 27 September, after a 28-year wait and a flurry of last-minute legal challenges, the Orange Order was given permission for 35
There is some unreality to the current clamour for reform of Northern Ireland’s devolved government. The three major non-unionist parties, as well as the British and Irish governments, have proposed or are open to substantial changes in the teeth of
Two new reports on bills currently before parliament take very different approaches to human rights. One report commends article 2 of the human rights convention for offering a measure of justice to families of those who died in the Hillsborough
What a way to conclude a busy summer! In August, I had the privilege of joining a program of specialized training and workshops in Belfast, Northern Ireland (NI) for two weeks. My assigned task was to introduce real-world examples of
On 2nd June 2026 the Supreme Court handed down their judgment in Re Attorney General for Northern Ireland’s Reference (Deprivation of Liberty) [2026] UKSC 16. You can read the full analysis of the case by Anogika Souresh and Esme Cairns
Dr Eleni Frantziou, Associate
Professor in Public Law and Human Rights, Durham Law School, and Dr Sylvia
de Mars, Reader in Transnational Public Law, Newcastle Law School
Photo credit: Samuel
Lennox, via Wikimedia
Commons
How all of this started is part of our research team’s folklore. My Fulbright placement in 2009-10 was in a program called the Changing Ageing Partnership, funded by Atlantic Philanthropies, with a physical base at the law school at
