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
The Northern Ireland Executive and Assembly are under fire for their record in delivering public policy and services. In a new working paper published as a Constitution Unit report today, Alan Whysall argues that their under-performance threatens the stability of the 1998 Belfast/Good Friday Agreement settlement. Specific measures to improve
Drake’s Application for Judicial Review [2025] NIKB 70, 12 December 2025, judgment here.
It is clear that litigation privilege cannot arise in respect of reports commissioned for a coroner’s inquisitorial proceedings: the Northern Ireland Court of Appeal (NICA) have
Few judges have spoken about the pressures of trying the most serious cases without a jury. One who did was Lord Carswell, who sat in Northern Ireland before his appointment to the UK’s highest court in 2004. I interviewed
