The Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ) is honoured to be giving evidence to this Commission on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Belfast Good Friday Agreement. This Agreement, and the subsequent agreements of different kinds designed to implement it, has given us 20 years of relative peace; following a disastrous, thirty...
This year marks the 20th Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. As we reach this milestone, we believe that it is time to not only celebrate the achievement of the Agreement and the role that civic society played, but to reflect on its implementation and consider how its outstanding provisions regarding rights and equality can...
Responding to today’s Ireland V UK judgment, CAJ Director Brian Gormally says; ‘This is a narrow and largely technical decision by the European Court of Human Rights. It considered that the new evidence was not sufficient to show that, had it been taken into account by the original court, it would have been decisive in...
Equal to the task? Effective enforcement of the ‘section 75’ equality duty Presentation of Equality Coalition Research and Launch of the CAJ Equality Duty Enforcement Project Tuesday 12 December 10.30am- 12.30pm UNISON, 165 York Street, Belfast, BT15 1GD The statutory equality duty in section 75 of the Northern Ireland Act 1998 was one of the...
