a narrative of official limitations on post-Agreement investigative mechanisms No.-66-The-Apparatus-of-Impunity-Human-rights-violations-and-the-Northern-Ireland-conflict-Jan-2015 To date there has been no overarching legacy commission or transitional justice mechanism to deal with the legacy of the Northern Ireland conflict. Instead a number of criminal justice system mechanisms examine unresolved conflict-related deaths. Such mechanisms were largely prompted by a series of Article...
S440-CAJs-submission-to-the-NIO-consultation-on-monitoring-the-use-of-emergency-stop-and-search-powers-Dec-2014 The Northern Ireland Office (NIO) issued the document “Consultation on paragraph 8.78 of the exercise of powers in the Justice and Security (Northern Ireland) Act 2007 Code of Practice” for consultation between November-December 2014. The NIO is only consulting on one paragraph of its Code of Practice, namely paragraph 8.78 which currently reads: A...
No.-68-Covert-Policing-and-Ensuring-Accountability-Ten-Years-on-from-the-Cory-Collusion-Inquiry-Reports-Where-Now Synopsis The conference took place on the 1 July 2014 in the Ulster University Belfast Campus and was organised by CAJ in partnership with the Ulster University Transitional Justice Institute (TJI). The conference explored the themes of covert policing, particularly the running of agents/informants and use of intelligence, and address contemporary and historic questions...
S423-CAJs-submission-to-supplementary-proposals-from-the-DoJ-on-New-Powers-Package-Policy-Paper-for-OPONI-October-2013 CAJ responded to the Department of Justice Targeted Consultation on the new powers package for the Police Ombudsman in July 2013. CAJ welcomed the reforms, from the Police Ombudsman’s Five Year Review of Powers, that the Department intended to implement, which would remedy gaps in OPONI’s remit. CAJ also noted that other recommendations from...
S426-CAJs-request-to-ECNI-for-Para-11-Investigation-into-DSD-Strategic-Housing-Policy-Oct-2013 Request to Equality Commission for Northern Ireland (ECNI) for a ‘Paragraph 11’ Investigation into the Department of Social Development (DSD) in relation to failure to abide by its Equality Scheme in relation to the strategic Housing Strategy policy This is a request that the ECNI use its paragraph 11 powers under Schedule 9 of...
