Accountability has long been both a key theme and a key problem in constitutional scholarship. The centrality of the accountability debates in contemporary political and legal discourse is a product of the difficulty of ...
Whether the deportation of a family with a child with Attention Deficit
Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), was contrary to the right for respect for
private and family life under Article 8 of the European Convention on ...
This paper suggests that a regimes approach, which analyses the variety of state and non-state actors participating within any given regulatory space, might provide a better framework within which to understand the nature ...
The stated aims of imprisonment became markedly less ambitious when the confidence that characterised the nineteenth-century reform movement was displaced by a realisation that places of confinement – no matter how well ...
Scott, Colin(Washington and Lee University School of Law, 2012)
The emergence of non-state actors as regulators is a key feature of contemporary transnational regulation. This article first offers an analysis of the emergent private authority in terms first of the variety of non-state ...
In Housing Law and Policy, Professor David Cowan, University of Bristol, provides a comprehensive analysis of the intersections, assumptions and politics of housing law and policy. Written in an accessible manner, this ...
The self-governing Irish state has had two Constitutions since its secession from the United Kingdom. Both of these Constitutions suffer from difficulties of image and identity. The circumstances that surrounded the adoption ...
Irish Government must ensure any future British Bill of rights and responsibilities must, at least for North, reflect minimum rights protections under European Human Rights Convention
In the early twentieth century the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council acted as the final appellate court for most of the territories of the British Empire. Its area of jurisdiction has gradually declined since the ...
This is the first of two articles examining the relationship between British Imperial statutes and Irish law in the early years of the self-governing Irish state. British Imperial statutes represent a potential source of ...
This is the second of two articles examining the relationship between British Imperial statutes and Irish law in the early years of the self-governing Irish state. The present article examines the assertion that the Imperial ...
Existing accounts of the British contribution to the drafting of the first Irish Constitution tend to focus exclusively on matters relating to the Anglo Irish Treaty of 1921. This article examines the advice given by the ...
Mr Justice Colm Mac Eochaidh delivered his decision in the case of C.A. and T.A v The Minister for Justice and others on November 14, 2014; subsequent to the publication of Issue 3 of this journal (2014) 17 (3) I.J.F.L. ...
The claimant suffered from a number of medical conditions including an underactive thyroid gland, fibromyalgia and depression. The claimant undertook a limited capability for work assessment, however did not receive enough ...