Submissions Archives

CAJ regularly responds to public consultations with submissions.

Apr

CAJ cautions against the use of vaccine passports

15/04/2021Committee on the Administration of JusticeNews, Press releases, Submissions

CAJ concerned vaccine passport app could discriminate and be ID card by stealth A human rights NGO has urged the NI Executive to consider the human rights implications of requiring people in Northern Ireland to carry a vaccine ‘passport’ to prove they have been immunised against Covid-19. The Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ)...

Apr

Submission to the Committee of Ministers in relation to the supervision of the cases concerning the action of the security forces in Northern Ireland (February 2021)

01/04/2021Committee on the Administration of JusticePublications, Submissions

CAJ regularly makes submissions the Committee of Ministers on the ‘McKerr group of cases’ concerning the actions of the security forces in the 1980s and 1990s in Northern Ireland. Our recent submissions have charted the unilateral abandonment by the UK of commitments to implement the legacy mechanisms contained within the Stormont House Agreement (SHA), and...

Mar

CAJ responds to review of the Human Rights Act

04/03/2021Committee on the Administration of JusticePublications, Submissions

CAJ has responded to the Independent Human Rights Act Review. The review was set up by the UK government to ‘consider how the Human Rights Act (HRA) is working in practice and whether any change is needed’. We believe is important to see this review in the context of a long list of attempts by...

Mar

Equality Coalition submission on Programme for Government outcomes and draft budget

02/03/2021Committee on the Administration of JusticePublications, Submissions

The Equality Coalition has finalised its submission on the Programme for Government (PfG) outcomes and draft budget (including departmental screenings/EQIAs). Given their interlinking nature, this submission responds to a number of different, concurrent consultations at once. The submission examines the rights and equality implications of current plans, including whether the Section 75 statutory equality duty...

Feb

Written evidence on the Citizenship and Passport Processes in Northern Ireland

25/02/2021Committee on the Administration of JusticePublications, Submissions

The NI Affairs Committee has launched an inquiry into the ‘Citizenship and Passport Processes in Northern Ireland’, and is seeking written evidence on the following three questions: The interaction between UK nationality law and Articles 1 (v) and (vi) of the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement, and any engagement with the ECHR; Whether the Government should consider...

Feb

Submission responding to the UK’s latest update on its compliance with European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages

08/02/2021Committee on the Administration of JusticePublications, Submissions

CAJ has provided comment on the UK’s official response to the 5th report on its adherence to the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (ECRML). Our submission is limited to commentary on the UK’s commitments in Northern Ireland under the ECRML, namely those related to the promotion and protection of Irish and Ulster Scots....

Feb

Model Bill Team submission to the Special Rapporteur on the Promotion of Truth, Justice, Reparation and Guarantees of Non-Recurrence

02/02/2021Committee on the Administration of JusticePublications, Submissions

The UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion of Truth, Justice Reparations and Guarantees of Non-Recurrence is drafting a follow-up report to examine to what extent the UK has implemented recommendations made based on an official visit to the country in 2016. Civil society groups and national human rights institutions have been given an opportunity to...

Jan

Post-Brexit access to European Health Insurance Card rights for people in Northern Ireland

18/01/2021Committee on the Administration of JusticePublications, Submissions

The European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) is a free card that provides access to medically necessary (state) healthcare during a temporary stay in either an EU member state or in Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, or Switzerland, under the same conditions and at the same cost as an insured resident of that country. In general terms, this...

Dec

Submission to the Committee of Ministers in relation to the supervision of the cases concerning the action of the security forces in Northern Ireland (October 2020)

03/12/2020Committee on the Administration of JusticePublications, Submissions

The Committee of Ministers is the decision-making body of Europe’s leading human rights organisation, the Council of Europe. Its functions include examining the execution of judgments made by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in a series of cases in which states have been found to have committed human rights violations. CAJ regularly makes submissions the...

Nov

Evidence to Ad Hoc Committee on a Bill of Rights from CAJ

20/11/2020Committee on the Administration of JusticePublications, Submissions

CAJ has given evidence to the Ad Hoc Committee on a Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland on the challenges facing Northern Ireland and the case for a Bill of Rights. Our evidence explains how a rights-based approach in general, and a Bill of Rights in particular, could assist in meeting the existential challenges facing...

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