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Unpacking the Joint Framework on Legacy – Seminar

Event Date(s): October 10, 2025
Time: 10am - 12:30pm
Event Type: In Person Event
Event Venue: The Great Hall, Queen's University Belfast
Policy Area(s):Legacy of the Past
Keywords:Impunity

You are invited to attend a joint QUB Mitchell Institute & Human Rights Centre seminar titled: “Unpacking the Joint Framework on Legacy”

  • 📍 The Great Hall, Queen’s University Belfast
  • 📅 Friday 10 October 2025
  • 🕙 10:00am

On the 19 September 2025 the Secretary of State and Tánaiste published the new ‘Joint Framework’ between the two Governments on the ‘The Legacy of the Troubles.’ In the Joint Framework the UK Government committed to legislation to replace the “failed Legacy Act and replace the ICRIR with a reformed Legacy Commission” as well as reopening civil proceedings and some inquests.

This seminar will feature an NGO panel, presenting an analysis paper on the Joint Framework from CAJ, with input from the Pat Finucane Centre, Amnesty and Relatives for Justice. This will be followed by an academic panel providing further insight and analysis on the recently published Joint Framework.

Panel One

NGO Panel Chair: Professor Louise Mallinder, Mitchell Institute and Interim Director, School of Law

Daniel Holder, Director, Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ); presentation of CAJ Briefing Paper on the Joint Framework followed by inputs and discussion from:

  • Gráinne Teggart, Deputy Director Amnesty International.
  • Mark Thompson, CEO, Relatives for Justice (RFJ).
  • Alan Brecknell, Advocacy Support Worker, Pat Fincuane Centre (PFC).

The panel will discuss the Joint Framework’s provisions to replace the ICRIR with the Legacy Commission, future Inquests, the national security veto and related matters.

Panel Two

Academic Panel Chair: Professor of Transitional Justice Cheryl Lawther, Director of Research School of Law.

  • Professor Kieran McEvoy, Mitchell Institute, the Joint Framework and the Independent Commission for Information Retrieval (ICIR)
  • Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin KC (Hon), Professor of Law, the Queen’s University of Belfast (joining remotely) – the Joint Framework
  • Professor Ron Dudai, former member of International Expert Panel on Impunity and the Northern Ireland Conflict – an international perspective.

This event is open to all and will provide space for questions, discussion, and reflection from families, politicians, academia, practitioners, and wider civil society. We very much hope you can join us for this timely and significant conversation. Please note this event is in-person only. RSVP is mandatory.

👉 Please RSVP here.

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