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CONSULTANCY PROVIDED TO LAWYERS

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The routing of sectarian marches
The right to a fair trial
The right of silence
The use of lethal force
Effective investigations into deaths
Ill-treatment in custody
Prison conditions
Transfer of prisoners
Derogation from the European Convention on Human Rights
The broadcasting ban
Alleged terrorist finances
Conditions in detention
Access to legal advice
Forensic evidence
Miscarriages of justice

CONFERENCES

Conflicting Reports - reporting the conflict in Northern Ireland, London, (1993)
Human Rights and the Peace Process, Belfast (1995)
Human Rights and the Northern Ireland Peace Agreement: Problems and Prospects, London (1999)

THIRD PARTY INTERVENTIONS IN EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS

McCann, Farrell & Savage v UK - the Gibraltar case
John Murray v UK - the right of silence

INQUIRIES ATTENDED

Public Inquiry into the death of Paul Thompson, Belfast (1994)
The Bloody Sunday Inquiry, Derry and London (1999 - 2004)
The Rosemary Nelson Inquiry (2005 –)
The Robert Hamill Inquiry (2005 –)
The Billy Wright Inquiry (2005 -)

SEMINARS

The Right of Silence, Belfast, (1992)
Enforcing European Remedies, Belfast, (1992)
Irish Aspects of the Royal Commission on Criminal Justice, London, (1992)
Access to Legal Advice, Belfast, (1992)
Coroners' Inquests, Belfast, (1992)
Recent Developments in Inquests in England and Northern Ireland, London, (1992)
Interrogation, Confessions and Corroboration, Belfast, (1992)
Using the United Nations and the CSCE Process, London, (1992)
Secrecy, Disclosure and National Security, Belfast, (1993)
Policing the Police, Dublin, (1993)
Human Rights in Northern Ireland since the Ceasefires, London (1994)
Human Rights After the Ceasefires, Belfast (1994)
Putting Wrongs to Right: Miscarriages of Justice, Belfast March (1995)
The Relevance of Human Rights to the Northern Ireland Peace Process, Dublin, October (1995)
A Hostage to Fortune? Do we need permanent counter-terrorism laws? London, March (1996)
The Crisis in Criminal Justice, Dublin, (1996)
Inquests and Contentious Deaths, Belfast, (1997)
Taking a Case to the Criminal Case Review Commission, Belfast, (1997)
Northern Ireland: The Human Rights Dimension, London (2001)
A Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland, London (2001)
Policing in Transition, London (2001)
Lethal Force and Inquests, London (2001)
Emergency Laws, London (2001)
Collusion, London (2001)
Accountability in transition, Belfast (2008)

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EXPERT TESTIMONY/INTERVENTION

Extradition of James Smyth, San Francisco, (1993)
Judicial reviews by Christopher Hanley, Michael Russell and others, and Damien Floyd concerning access to legal advice, Belfast, (1996)
Extradition of Kevin Barry Artt and Terence Kirby, San Francisco, (1996)
Judicial review concerning quashing the Widgery Tribunal of Inquiry into Bloody Sunday, Belfast, (1997)
Affidavit in support of judicial review by Alex Maskey of refusal to allow him to employ a private security firm to assess his security needs, rather than the RUC, Belfast, (1998)
Submission to the Bloody Sunday Inquiry concerning its treatment of evidence, (1999)
Submission to the Attorney-General concerning immunity from prosecution, (1999)
Judicial review concerning anonymity of witnesses and the proper court of jurisdiction to hear the issue, Bloody Sunday Inquiry, (1999)
Judicial review concerning the re-instatement by the army of two soldiers convicted of murder in Northern Ireland, (1999)
Evidence to the Committee on International Relations and Human Rights of the Congress of the United States of America on policing in Northern Ireland (1999).
Evidence to the Subcommittee on International Relations and Human Rights of the Congress of the United States of America on plastic bullets, (1999)
Judicial review concerning the decision by the Director of Public Prosecutions not to prosecute RUC officers who tortured David Adams while in custody, (1999)
Judicial review concerning the leaking of security force files to loyalists, (1999)
Evidence to the Committee on Security and Co-operation in Europe of the Congress of the United States of America on the murders of Patrick Finucane and Rosemary Nelson, (2000)
Asylum application by Malachy McAllister, New Jersey, (2000)
Judicial review of the Army Board concerning their re-instatement of James Fisher and Mark Wright, convicted of the murder of Peter McBride, (2001)
Third party intervention in an appeal by the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission to the House of Lords concerning their right to intervene in litigation, (2002)
Third party intervention in the McKerr case before the House of Lords, regarding the application of the Human Rights Act - Feb (2004)
Evidence to a sub-committee of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Equality, Defence and Human Rights, regarding the Barron Report into the bombings of Dublin and Monaghan in (1974 - Feb 2004)
Testimony to the American Commission on Security and Co-operation in Europe concerning the Cory Reports - March (2004)
Oral briefing to the United Nations Committee Against Torture - November (2004)
Testimony to the Committee on International Relations of the U.S. House of Representatives, Hearing on Northern Ireland Human Rights: update on the Cory Collusion Inquiry Reports, (2005)
Third party intervention in the case of A & Ors concerning the admissibility in domestic courts of evidence obtained by torture in a third country, (2005)
Testimony before the Joint Committee on Human Rights concerning the UK's compliance with the International Convention against Torture (2005)
Evidence to a sub-committee of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Equality, Defence and Human Rights, regarding the Barron Report into the murder of Seamus Ludlow in 1976 (2006)
Third party intervention in judicial review of the Secretary of State's decision to convert the Billy Wright Inquiry to an inquiry under the Inquiry Act (2005)
Testimony before the US House Subcommittees of the International Relations Committee on Africa, Global Human Rights and International Operations and on Europe and Emerging Threats concerning the Historical Enquiries Team (2006)
Third party intervention on the question of anonymity for certain witnesses at the Robert Hamill Inquiry (2006)
Third party intervention in judicial reviews by Coleman, Avery, Walsh Mulher and McElkerney concerning the refusal of the police to give undertakings not to bug confidential lawyer/client interviews (2006) and a similar refusal by the prison service (2007)
Third party intervention in the case of Al-Skeini concerning the applicability of the European Convention to EU soldiers acting outside the European Union (2007)
Application for leave to intervene as third party in the case of Al Rawi & Others, concerning the continued detention of two UK residents by the US authorities at Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba, who have been refused state assistance to secure their release and return to the UK (2007)
Request for leave to intervene in an application for judicial review by six prison officers involved in the Billy Wright inquiry. The officers seek permission to judicially review the Secretary of State's June 2007 decision not to restrict the Inquiry's terms of reference (2007)
Application for full participant status in the Rosemary Nelson Inquiry, providing an independent presence to assist the Inquiry in arriving at the truth about her murder (2007)
Evidence to the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee on the cost of dealing with the past and the use of informers at inquiries (2008)

PARLIAMENTARY BRIEFINGS

Inquiries Bill
Prevention of Terrorism Bill
Counter-terrorism measures
Northern Ireland Offences Bill
Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill
Counter Terrorism Bill 2008

SUBMISSIONS

UNITED NATIONS

Thirteen submissions to the United Nations' Special Rapporteur on Judges and Lawyers on the intimidation of defence lawyers in Northern Ireland (1992,1993,1994,1995,1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002).
Submission to the United Nations' Special Rapporteur on the Right to a Fair Trial concerning alleged miscarriages of justice in Northern Ireland (1993).
Submissions to the United Nations' Special Rapporteur on Extra-Judicial, Summary and Arbitrary Executions on the murder of Patrick Finucane; the deaths on Bloody Sunday (1993); the death of Gervase McKerr (1995); the deaths on Gibraltar (1996); the shooting of Diarmuid O'Neill (1997); and the death of Robert Hamill (1977 and 1998).
Submission to the United Nations Human Rights Committee on the UK's observance of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1991, 1995 and 2001).
Submission to the United Nations Human Rights Committee on the conditions in detention for those held under emergency laws (1995).
Submission to the United Nations Committee against Torture on the conditions in detention in Castlereagh detention centre (1995).
Submission to the United Nations Committee against Torture on the case of David Adams (1995).
Joint submission with the Irish Commission for Prisoners Overseas to the United Nations Committee against Torture on the situation of Irish prisoners in England (1995).
Submission to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention concerning the case of Colin Duffy (1997).
Submission to the United Nations Human Rights Committee and the Committee Against Torture concerning allegations of ill-treatment of suspects in Limerick, made jointly with the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (1997).
Submission to the United Nations Committee against Torture concerning conditions in detention, aspects of the emergency laws that promote ill-treatment, and the use of plastic bullets (1998).
Submission to the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Opinion concerning the case of Ed Moloney (1999).
Submission to the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Opinion concerning journlaists and the Bloody Sunday Inquiry (1999).
Submission to the United Nations Human Rights Committee on Ireland's observance of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (2000).
Submission to the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Opinion concerning attempts to suppress newspaper reports about state collusion (2000).
Submission to the United Nations' Special Rapporteur on Extra-Judicial, Summary and Arbitrary Executions on the murder of Billy Wright in the Maze prison in 1997 (2000).
Submission to the United Nations Human Rights Committee on Ireland's observance of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (2001).
Submission to the United Nations' Special Rapporteur on Extra-Judicial, Summary and Arbitrary Executions concerning the death of Diarmuid O'Neill (2001).
Submission to the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Opinion concerning the banning of UTV's Insight programme on the infiltration of former soldiers into the IRA (2001).
Submission to the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Opinion concerning the murder of journalist Martin O'Hagan (2001).
Submission to the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Opinion concerning the arrests of journalist Liam Clarke and Kathryn Johnston (2003)
Submission to the United Nations' Special Rapporteur on judges and lawyers concerning the Cory report on the cases of Finucane, Hamill, Wright and Nelson - Jan 2004
Confidential report to the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression concerning attempts by the government to suppress allegations that those who murdered Stephen Restorick, the last soldier to die so far in the Northern Ireland conflict, were under surveillance (August 2004)
Submission to the United Nations Committee Against Torture on the UK's implementation to the Convention Against Torture (November 2004)
Submission to the Special Rapporteur on judges and lawyers, the Special Rapporteur on extra-judicial executions, and the Special Representative on human rights defenders concerning the UK's failure to hold an independent inquiry into the murder of Patrick Finucane (2005)
Report to the Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression about the failure of the police investigation into the murder of journalist Martin O'Hagan and the failure to protect his newspaper, the Sunday World, from attacks on its staff and on newsagents selling the paper (2005)
Submission to the Special Rapporteur on extra-judicial executions concerning the murder of Raymond McCord (2005)
Update to the Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression concerning the murder of journalist Martin O’Hagan (2006)
Confidential report to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and the Northern Ireland Police Ombudsman concerning the murder of journalist Martin O'Hagan in 2001 (2007)
Submission to the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion regarding discrimination in employment and promotion prospects, the composition of the PSNI and sectarian crime (2007)
Submission to UN Human Rights Committee 2007 on UK compliance with ICCPR (2007)
Submission to UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression regarding death threats made against Robin Livingstone, Editor of the Andersonstown News, Richard McAuley, Sinn Feín media spokesperson, and four other persons by the Red Hand Defenders (2007)
Submission to UN Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review Mechanism concerning the UK (2007)
Submission to UN Special Representative on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders (2007)

CENTRE FOR JUDGES AND LAWYERS, GENEVA

Submission on the intimidation of defence lawyers (1992); and on access to legal advice for those detained under emergency laws in Northern Ireland (1993 and 1995).
Submission on the problems of safety of defence lawyers in Northern Ireland - March 2004

OTHER BODIES

Evidence to the United States Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, as part of their investigations into the murder of Patrick Finucane, intimidation of defence lawyers and collusion (1992 and 1995).
Evidence to the Liberty hearings on criminal justice, in particular on corroboration and confession evidence, and the right to silence (1993)
Submission to the Amnesty International hearings on human rights and civil liberties in the United Kingdom (1993).
Submission to the second inquiry by John Stevens into collusion in Northern Ireland (1993).
Submission to the Irish Government's Forum for Peace and Reconciliation on the role of human rights in the peace process (1994).
Submission to the independent Mitchell Commission on the decommissioning of weapons (1995).
Submission to the independent review of police complaints in Northern Ireland (1996).
Submission to the Inquiry into Legislation against Terrorism (1996).
Submission to the government consultation exercise on public interest immunity (1996).
Joint submission with relatives for Justice to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa (1996).
Submission to the Irish government concerning seven-day detention (1996).
Submission to the Independent Review of Parades and Marches (1996).
Submission to the Secretary of State for Scotland concerning the case of Brendan Callaghan (1996).
Submission to PACE University, USA, on the killings of nine people and the wounding of another at Loughgall on 8 May 1987 (1997).
Submission to the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture on prison conditions for republican prisoners (1997).
Submission to the independent inquiry into the death of Patrick Shanaghan (1997).
Evidence to the Subcommittee on International Relations and Human Rights of the Congress of the United States of America on the role of human rights in the Northern Ireland peace process (1997).
Submission to Home Secretary concerning proposed extradition of Roisin McAliskey (1997)
Submission to the Northern Ireland Victims Commission (1997).
Response to consultation by the Criminal Cases Review Commission on setting its priorities for dealing with applications (1988).
Evidence to the Human Rights Committee of the New York City Bar Association, as part of their 1998 mission to Northern Ireland (1998).
Evidence to the Subcommittee on International Relations and Human Rights of the Congress of the United States of America policing, intimidation of defence lawyers and the murder of Patrick Finucane (1998).
Submission to the Independent Commission on Policing for Northern Ireland (1999).
Submission to the Review of the Criminal Justice System in Northern Ireland (1999).
Report to the British and Irish governments concerning state involvement in loyalist violence (1999).
Submission to the Irish government concerning its plans to establish a Human Rights Commission (1999).
Submission to the Irish government's review of the Offences Against the State Acts (1999).
Submission to the Irish government concerning the death of Seamus Ludlow (1999).
Report on the murder of Rosemary Nelson (1999).
Submission to the British government concerning reform of the Diplock Courts (2000).
Justice Delayed… Alleged state collusion in the murder of Patrick Finucane and others (2000).
Response to the Report of the Review of the Criminal Justice System in Northern Ireland (2000).
Response to consultation by the Northern Ireland Office on Codes of Practice issued under the Terrorism Act 2000 (2001).
Response to consultation by the Northern Ireland Office on its equality scheme (2001).
Response to consultation by the Joint Committee on Human Rights on devising its work plan (2001).
Submission to the Joint Committee on Human Rights concerning a UK-wide human rights commission (2001).
Response to consultation by the Northern Ireland Office on the draft Life Sentences (Northern Ireland) Order 2001and Life Sentence Commissioners Rules (2001).
Response to consultation by the Royal Ulster Constabulary on its draft Force Order on its relationship with defence lawyers (2001).
Response to consultation by the Royal Ulster Constabulary on its draft Code of Ethics (2001).
Submission to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice on the Bill to incorporate the European Convention on Human Rights into Irish law (2001).
Response to consultation by the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission on its draft Bill of Rights (2001).
Response to consultation by the Northern Ireland Office concerning the implementation of the recommendations made by the Criminal Justice Review team (2001)
Response to the second report by the working group set up after the Patten Commission on the reform of policing recommended that an alternative be found to plastic bullets (2001)
Submission to the UK government concerning its response to the rulings of the European court of Human Rights in the cases of Jordan, Shanaghan, McKerr and Kelly & Ors v UK (2002)
Complaint to the Police Ombudsman concerning the murder in 1977 of RUC Sergeant Joe Campbell (2002)
Submission to the Police Service of Northern Ireland on their draft transparency policy (2002)
Submission to the Police Service of Northern Ireland on their draft scheme for promoting equality of opportunity (2002)
Submission to the Policing Board on their draft code of practice on District Policing Partnerships (2002)
Submission to the Northern Ireland Office concerning their review of standards for the admissibility of evidence in the Diplock courts (2002)
Submission to the parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights' inquiry into United Kingdom derogations from the European Convention on Human Rights (2002)
Submissions to the Honourable Judge Cory concerning the murders of Patrick Finucane, Robert Hamill, Billy Wright and Rosemary Nelson (2002)
Submissions to the Honourable Judge Barron concerning the murder of Seamus Ludlow (2002)
Submissions to the British government concerning the powers of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (2002)
Submission to the Fundamental Review of Coroners Services (2002)
Three submissions to the US State Department concerning the murders of Robert Hamill, Patrick Finucane and Rosemary Nelson (2002)
Response to consultation document from the Northern Ireland Office about proposed changes to the arrangements for video-recording police interviews (2002)
Response to consultation document from the Northern Ireland Prison Service about proposals to keep those victims of crime who so wish informed about prisoners' release dates (2002)
Submission to the Joint Committee on Human Rights concerning the workings of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (2002)
Response to the report by the Review of the Parades Commission (2003)
Response to consultation by the Northern Ireland Office on children's rights (2003)
Representations to the Irish government concerning the dismissal from the army of Donal de Roiste (2003)
Representations to the Committee of Ministers' Deputies at the European Union about the UK's failure to implement the European Court of Human Rights' 2001 rulings in the cases of Jordan et al (2003)
Representations to the Northern Ireland Policing Board concerning deployment of CS spray (2003)
Submission to the governmental working party on less lethal alternatives to plastic bullets (2003)
Representations to the UK government about the level of funding available for the Police Ombudsman of Northern Ireland concerning the case of John Torney (2003)
Submission to Nelson Mandela concerning the murder of Patrick Finucane (2003)
Submissions to the Criminal Cases Review Commission concerning the case of Christy Walsh (2003)
Submission to the Northern Ireland Policing Board on the equality aspects of its Code of Practice on Reports and Inquiries (2003)
Submission to the Northern Ireland Office concerning the 50:50 Catholic: Protestant/other police recruitment policy (2003)
Submission to the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee about the segregation of paramilitary prisoners at Maghaberry jail (2003)
Submission to the Northern Ireland Court Service about the reform of the inquest system (2003)
Submission to the sub-committee of the Joint Oireachtas examining Judge Barron's report on the 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings (2004)
Response to consultation by the Northern Ireland Court Service regarding information services (2004)
Response to the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission regarding communication strategy (2004)
Response to the Northern Ireland Prison service regarding minimum life sentences (2004)
Response to a Northern Ireland Courts Service consultation on the reform of inquests
Response to government working party on "less lethal" alternatives to plastic bullets (2004)
Response to Northern Ireland Office consultation on reform of bail provisions for scheduled offences in Northern Ireland (2004)
Response to Policing Board's consultations concerning their equality impact assessments on the policing policy plan and on data collection (2004)
Response to report by Policing Board's human rights advisers on compliance by the PSNI with the Human Rights Act 1998 (2004)
Response to the Home Office's consultation paper, Counter-terrorism Powers: Reconciling Security and Liberty in an Open Society (2004)
Response to Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission's second draft Bill of Rights (2004)
Response to the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland's consultation exercise on what forms of identification the police should use (2004)
Submission to the Department of Constitutional Affairs consultation on Effective inquiries (2004)
Submission to Joint Committee on Human Rights on the government's review of international human rights instruments (2004)
Submission to Northern Ireland Affairs Committee's inquiry in ways of dealing with Northern Ireland's past (2004)
Submission to Joint Committee on Human Rights on the Inquiries Bill (2004)
Submissions to the Rosemary Nelson Inquiry and the Robert Hamill Inquiry (2004)
Submission to the Billy Wright Inquiry (2005)
Submission to the Committee of Ministers' Deputies in Strasbourg, concerning the UK's response to the European Court of Human Rights' judgments in the cases of Jordan, Kelly & Ors, Shanaghan, McKerr, McShane, and Finucane v UK (2005)
Submission to the Commission of Investigation into the Dublin and Monaghan bombings (2005)
Submission to the Police Ombudsman, the Independent Monitoring Commission, the Prime Minister, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, the US Special Envoy on Northern Ireland, and the US Congress concerning the murder of Raymond McCord (2005)
Submission to the Police Ombudsman concerning the murder of Lorraine McCausland (2005)
Response to the Police Service of Northern Ireland's draft policy on its response to hate crimes (2005)
Comments to the Policing Board on its research into young people from north Belfast's attitudes towards the police (2005)
Response to the parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights' enquiry into the UK's reaction to the recommendations made by the United Nation's Committee Against Torture (2005)
Comments on Police Service of Northern Ireland's priorities for 2006/7 (2005)
Comments on Police Service of Northern Ireland's draft policy on children and young people (2005)
Response to the Oversight Commissioner's report on the Police Service of Northern Ireland's implementation of the Patten Commission's recommendations on human rights and policing (2005)
Complaint to the Police Ombudsman concerning the failure to rescind the request for the deportation from the USA of Laurence Zaitschek (2005)
Report on the murder of John Dignam (2005)
Submission to the parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights concerning the use of UK airspace, airports, and airbases for those subjected by the USA to extraordinary rendition (delivery to third countries for the purpose of torture) (2005)
Submission to the Northern Ireland Office concerning video identification (2005)
Submission to the Home Affairs Committee about 90-day detention (2005)
Submission to the Historic Enquiry Team about the murder of John Dignam (2005)
Submission to a sub-committee of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Equality, Defence and Human Rights, regarding the Barron Report into the murder of Seamus Ludlow in 1976 (2006)
Submission to the Equality Commission on their draft Corporate Plan 2006-09 (2006)
Response to government consultation on the powers of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (2006)
Response to a consultation by the Human Rights Advisers attached to the Policing Board concerning their monitoring of compliance with the Human Rights Act 1998 by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (2006)
Comments on Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission's Strategic Plan 2006/9 (2006)
Response to consultation by Police Ombudsman on draft mediation plan (2006)
Response to consultation by Lord Carlile on the definition of terrorism (2006)
Response to the Northern Ireland Office's consultation on community restorative justice (2006)
Comments on the Equality Commission's Draft Corporate Plan 2006/9 (2006)
Submission to the Northern Ireland Policing Board concerning the decision by the Police Service of Northern Ireland to deploy tasers (2006)
Submission to the Department of Constitutional Affairs on the draft Inquiry Procedure (UK Inquiries) Rules 2006 (2006)
Northern Ireland Office's consultation paper, Devolving Policing and Justice in Northern Ireland: A Discussion Paper (2006)
Submission to the International Commission of Jurists' Eminent Jurists Panel on Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights (2006)
Submission to the Northern Ireland Policing Board’s consultation on its compliance with its duty under s. 75 of the Northern Ireland Act 1998 to promote equality of opportunity (2006)
Comments to the Northern Ireland Office on the draft Code of Practice for the Detention, Treatment and Questioning of Persons under Section 41 and Schedule 8 of the Terrorism Act 2000 (2006)
Response to a consultation document issued by the Northern Ireland Office, which proposed amendments to the Police and Criminal Evidence Order, which governs custody in non-terrorist cases (2006)
Feedback to the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission on their research into the training of PSNI officers (2006)
Response to the parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights’ report on the UK’s compliance with the United Nations’ Convention Against Torture (2006)
Comments to the Northern Ireland Prison Service on its Progressive Regimes and Earned Privileges Scheme (2006)
Response to the Home Affairs Committee’s inquiry into the case for prolonged detention of those suspected of terrorist crimes (2006)
Response to a consultation from the Northern Ireland Prison Service on the issue of drugs in prisons (2006)
Comments on the Police Service of Northern Ireland’s policy on child protection (2006)
Response to Sinn Féin’s “Rights for All” discussion document (2006)
Response to a government consultation paper on arrangements for replacing the non-jury Diplock courts (2006)
Submission to the Northern Ireland Prison Service concerning the use of PAVA pepper spray (2006)
Submission to the Police Service of Northern Ireland concerning the deployment of tasers (2006)
Submission in response to the Fifth Report by the UK Steering Group on Patten recommendations 69 and 70, A Research Programme intot Alternative Policing Approaches towards the Management of Conflict (2006)
Briefing to all the members of the House of Commons Committee which is considering the Justice and Security (Northern Ireland) Bill (2007)
Response to consultation process by the Northern Ireland Policing Board on its performance of its duty to hold the Chief Constable to account (2007)
Response to the publication of the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee's report into the draft protocol on Community-based Restorative Justice Schemes (2007)
Response to the proposals out forward by Healing Through Remembering on the issue of a Truth Commission (2007)
Response to Home Office consultation on quashing convictions (2007)
Response on the Northern Ireland Policing Board's consultation on District Policing Partnerships (2007)
Confidential report to the PSNI's Historical Enquiries Team concerning the death of John Crawford in 1974 (2007)
Submission to the Joint Committee of Human Rights's inquiry into UK compliance with the Strasbourg judgments of McKerr, Jordan, Kelly & Ors, Shanaghan, McShane and Finucane (2007)
Comments to the Policing Board's on-going policy screening consultation exercise (2007)
Submission on the PSNI's equality impact assessment on the recruitment of police officers (2007)
Confidential report about the murder of Raymond McCord to the Police Service of Northern Ireland's Historical Enquiries Team(2007)
Comments on the UK government's response to a report by the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee on the Draft Protocol for Community-based Restorative Justice (2007)
Confidential report to the Historical Enquiries Team and the Police Ombudsman concerning the murders in 2000 of David McIlwaine and Andrew Robb (2007)
Confidential report to the Historical Enquiries Team and the Police Ombudsman concerning the 1993 murder of Damien Walsh (2007)
Submission to the PSNI's consultation of their Equality Impact Assessment of the officer promotion process (2007)
Submission to the Northern Ireland Office's Equality Impact Assessment of Victim Support (2007)
Response to the Home Affairs Committee's inquiry concerning the Government's proposals for new counter-terrorism legislation (2007)
Submission to the parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights on the question of whether there is a need for a British Bill of Rights (2007)
Submission to Northern Ireland Assembly’s Inquiry into the Devolution of Policing and Justice Matters (2007)
Submission to the Joint Committee on Human Rights in relation to their inquiry into allegations of torture and inhuman treatment carried out by British troops in Iraq (2007)
Response to the Policing Board of Nothern Ireland consultation on their corporate plan (2007)
Response to the Home Affairs Committee and the Joint Committee on Human Rights regarding the Government’s consultation on counter-terrorism proposals (2007)
Submission to UK Government's Consultative Group on the Past (2007)
Submission to Council of Europe's Committee of Ministers regarding developments in the Billy Wright, Rosemary Nelson, Patrick Finucane and Robert Hamill Inquiries (2007)
Submission to Police Service of Northern Ireland regarding their revised Code of Ethics (2007)
Response to the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee's recent report on their inquiry into the state of prisons in Northern Ireland (2008)
Submission to the Policing Board of Northern Ireland on their five year Equality Review (2008)
Submission to the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee's inquiry into the effect on policing of "historic inquiries" and the provisions of the Inquiries Act 2005 and other legislation which might require the police to divulge covert sources (2008)
Comments on the draft Bill of Rights by the Bill of Rights Forum (2008)
Response to the Police Service of Northern Ireland's consultation on its equality impact assessment on the deployment of tasers(2008)

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PUBLICATIONS

Inquests and Disputed Deaths in Northern Ireland, Committee on the Administration of Justice, 1992

Criminally Unjust: the Royal Commission on Criminal Justice and Northern Ireland, in Criminal Justice in Crisis, University of Warwick, 1993

Fortnight article on the ruling of the European Commission in the case of the Gibraltar Three, 1993

Broken Covenants, Chapters on the right to life, freedom from torture, liberty and security, fair trial, freedom of movement, freedom of expression, private and family life, and equal social and economic rights without discrimination, Liberty, 1993

Human Rights in Northern Ireland since the Cease fires, December 1994

Human Rights and the Peace Process in Northern Ireland, leaflet produced for the trade union UNISON, March 1995

British Irish Rights Watch, Public Law, Summer 1995

Human Rights and the Peace Process, June 1995

Human Rights and the Peace Process in Northern Ireland, International Journal of Discrimination and the Law, July 1995

The Role of Human Rights in the Northern Ireland Peace Process, British Irish RIGHTS WATCH, October 1995

Analysis of the results of the elections to the Northern Ireland Forum, June 1996

Why the Northern Ireland peace process has failed, the human rights perspective, International Journal of Discrimination and the Law, July 1996

Preface to Eyewitness Bloody Sunday, Woolfhound Press, Dublin, 1997

Analysis of the results of the elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly, June 1998

Creeping Injustice: The Effect of Emergency Laws on Civil Liberties in Britain, The Month, September 1998

Who murdered Rosemary Nelson?, Legal Action, March 2000

Human Wrongs, Human Rights: A Guide to the Human Rights Machinery of the United Nations, British Irish Rights Watch, March 2002, third edition

Second Chance for the Truth about Bloody Sunday, Socialist Lawyer, May 2000

Analysis of the results of the general election and district council elections in Northern Ireland, June 2001

At a loss for justice: the murder of David McIlwaine, February 2003

Response to Stevens 3 Summary Report, April 2003

Colin Worton: Guilty until proven innocent? April 2003

Stakeknife, May 2003

The death of Daniel Hegarty, killed aged 15 during operation motorman, 31 July 1972, August 2003

Deaths since the 1994 ceasefires, August 2003

The Death of Stephen McConomy, February 2004

Northern Ireland Elections Results, May 2005

Plastic Bullets: A Human Rights Perspective, September 2005

Plastic Bullets: A Human Rights Perspective, January 2006

Failed by the system: Christy Walsh, a miscarriage of justice, October 2006

Article for Just News on the Historical Enquiries Team, December 2008

Article for WAVE on dealing with the past, February 2008

Article for the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission on mechanisms for dealing with the past, March 2008

Fortnight article on the devolution of criminal justice, March 2008

TRIALS OBSERVED

Appeal of Dermott Quinn, Belfast (Diplock trial)
R v Miller, McFadden & McMonigal, Belfast (Diplock trial)
R v Coogan & Ors, Belfast (the Beechmount Five)
In re an application by Joseph Doherty, Belfast (extradition)
In re an application by Michael McKee, Belfast (extradition)
R v Silcock & Ors, Belfast (Casement Park)
R v Matthews, London (terrorist trial - all charges dropped)
R v Kelly & Ors, Belfast (Diplock trial)
In re an application by Glor na nGael, Belfast (political vetting)
R v Hamilton, London (perjury - all charges dropped)
In re Devine & Breslin's Application, London (judicial review of inquest)
R v McNulty & Others, London (terrorist trial - charges dropped)
Appeal of Kevin Murray, Belfast (Diplock trial)
R v Kevin Lynch, Belfast (Diplock trial, acquitted)
Appeal of Kevin Murray, London (House of Lords)
R v McMullan & Ors, Belfast (the Ballymurphy case)
Appeal of Gerard Magee, Belfast (Diplock trial)
Appeal of Declan Murphy, Belfast (Diplock trial)
R v Thomas O'Dwyer, Belfast (Diplock trial)
Inquest on McNeill, Thompson and Hale, Belfast
In re Peter Pringle, Dublin (terrorist trial, acquitted by Supreme Court)
Extradition of Gerard Power, London
R v Elkington and Callaghan, Belfast (the Caraher case)
In re an application by William Gorman, Belfast (judicial review re ESDA tests)
R v Bingham & Ors, Belfast (Diplock trial)
Appeal of Paul Hill, Belfast (aftermath of Guildford Four case, acquitted)
Inquests of Gervase McKerr and others, Belfast (the Stalker cases)
Appeal of Private Clegg, London (abuse of lethal force)
Judicial review of Coroner re inquest on Hale, Thompson and McNeill, Belfast
R v Adams & Ors, Belfast (Diplock trial)
Inquest on Arthurs and others, Craigavon (the Loughall case)
R v Home Secretary, ex parte O'Dhuibhir and O'Brien, London (closed visits)
Appeal by Thomas Brogan, Belfast (Diplock trial)
Re HughJordan's Application, Belfast (judicial review re conduct of inquest)
Appeal by Stephen Larkin, Belfast (Diplock trial, re-trial ordered)
Re Ann Bradley's Application, Belfast (judicial review re conduct of inquest)
Re-trial of Stephen Larkin, Belfast (Diplock trial, acquitted)
Appeal in the matter of James Cullen v Chief Constable RUC, Belfast (damages for denial of access to legal advice)
Judicial review by Christopher Hanley and Michael Russell & Ors, Belfast (access to legal advice)
Appeal by Colin Wallace, London (miscarriage of justice - acquitted) R v Attorney General ex parte Samuel Rosenfeld, London (effective exclusion from Northern Ireland)
Appeal by Sean Patrick McGuigan, Belfast (alleged miscarriage of justice)
Appeal by Colin Duffy, Belfast (miscarriage of justice - acquitted)
Trial of Declan McComish and Kevin Donegan, Belfast (alleged abuse of process)
Judicial reviews by four Irish citizens barred from working in the civil service in Northern Ireland, Belfast
Appeal by Graham Bingham and others, Belfast (alleged miscarriage of justice)
Re Applications by Paul Kavanagh, Ella O'Dwyer, Martina Anderson and Thomas Quigley, Belfast (judicial review of refusal to make temporary prison transfers permanent)
Trial of Adam Busby, Dublin (alleged miscarriage of justice)
Appeal by John Torney, Belfast (alleged miscarriage of justice)
Trial of Danny MacNamee and others, London (Whitemoor jail escape)
Appeal by Damien Sullivan, Belfast (alleged miscarriage of justice)
Appeal in R v Home Secretary, ex parte O'Dhuibhir and O'Brien, London (closed visits)
Appeal by Christopher Sheals, Belfast (alleged miscarriage of justice)
Appeal by Patrick Kane, Belfast (Casement Three - acquitted)
Judicial review by Treadaway, Jones and O'Brien, London (failure of DPP to prosecute police responsible for deaths and torture - successful)
Appeal to House of Lords by Begley and McWilliams, London (refusal to allow solicitors to remain during Castlereagh interrogations)
R v Kelly and Others, London (trial of those arrested when Diarmuid O'Neill was shot)
Action for damages for alleged assault by RUC officer by solicitor Patricia Coyle, Belfast
Appeal by Danny McNamee, London (acquitted)
Judicial review of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry concerning anonymity of witnesses, London (rehearing ordered)
Second judicial review of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry concerning anonymity of witnesses, London (anonymity of soldiers upheld)
Referral back to the Northern Ireland Court of appeal by the Criminal Cases Review Commission of the case of Billy Gorman, Belfast (acquitted)
Judicial review by David Adams of the Director of Public Prosecution's decision not to prosecute RUC officers who tortured him while in custody, Belfast
Judicial review by David Wright of the Coroner for Greater Belfast's decision not to allow him to see statements made by prison officers who were not called as witnesses at the inquest on Billy Wright, Belfast
Preliminary hearing concerning potential contempt of court by the media in trial of Colm Murphy, Dublin
Appeal against injunction on publication by the Sunday Times of information about British military intelligence, London
Referral back to the Northern Ireland Court of Appeal by the Criminal Cases Review Commission of the case of Gerard Magee, Belfast
Application for injunction against Ulster Television's Insight programme about infiltration of the IRA, Belfast
Application for judicial review by Jean McBride for judicial review of Army Board's decision to reinstate the soldiers who murdered her son Peter, London
Referral back to the Northern Ireland Court of Appeal by the Criminal Cases Review Commission of the case of Christy Walsh, Belfast
Application for judicial review by soldiers concerning venue for their testimony before the Bloody Sunday Inquiry, London
Application for declaration of abuse of process by William Stobie, Belfast
Referral back to the Northern Ireland Court of Appeal by the Criminal Cases Review Commission of the case of Anthony O'Doherty, Belfast
Appeal by victims against decision to screen RUC witnesses from view at the Bloody Sunday Inquiry, Belfast
Application for judicial review by Barrie Bradbury of the Northern Ireland Office's refusal to afford him protection, Belfast
Referral back to the Court of Appeal of Neil Latimer's case by the Criminal Cases Review Commission, Belfast (UDR Four case)
Judicial review for disclosure of police documents by the family of David McIIwaine, Belfsast
Indictment of Kevin Murphy and others, Belfast
Judicial review of the Criminal Cases Review Commission by John Torney, Belfast
Trial of Michael McKevitt, Dublin (directing terrorism)
Trial of Ken Barrett, Belfast, (murder of Pat Finucane)
Inquest on Seamus Ludlow, Dublin
Judicial review of Secretary of State’s decision to convert Billy Wright Inquiry to an inquiry under the Inquiries Act 2005, Belfast
Judicial review of hearings on anonymity by the Robert Hamill Inquiry, Belfast
In re Hurst, Jordan and McCaughey, House of Lords, London
Preliminary Enquiry in cases of Steven Brown and Mark Burcombe, Armagh
Appeal by certain police officers concerning anonymity at the Robert Hamill Inquiry, House of Lords, London
Judicial review of covert surveillance by police and prison services in the cases of Coleman, Avery, Walsh, McElkerney and Mulhern
In re Duffy, House of Lords, London
Re Christy Walsh, on appeal, Court of Appeal, Belfast

OTHER EVENTS OBSERVED

Orange Order and Apprentice Boys marches, August 1996, July 1997, July 1998
Bloody Sunday Inquiry
The Rosemary Nelson Inquiry
The Robert Hamill Inquiry
The Billy Wright Inquiry
Inquest on Seamus Ludlow
Inquest on Danny McGurk
Inquest on Martin O'Hagan

AWARDS

Beacon Prize for Northern Ireland 2007
Irish World Damien Gaffney Award 2008

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28 April, 2008