Don’t legislate for collusion?
Daniel Holder is Deputy Director of the Committee of the Administration of Justice (CAJ). He considers what the De Silva documents tell us about the pattern of how paramilitary informants have been handled here.
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Dublin and the North: supporting, but not supplanting local politicians
Dublin and the North: supporting, but not supplanting local politicians
Fit to teach in university?
By Anon Deplume Telling someone what to do is not teaching. “You must show them.” I remember being commended as a child for showing a classmate how to subtract using a few of those tiny plastic counting cubes. Our teacher, suggesting a future career i
The growth of secret ’evidence’ and the case of Marian Price
By Daniel Holder There were two significant reminders last week about the creeping use of secret ‘evidence.’ The first was the continued imprisonment of Marian McGlinchey (née Price) despite her three co-accused walking free when a judge threw out charg
Hain, the Attorney General and Information Control
Hain, the Attorney General and Information Control
Reflections on Northern Ireland’s child abuse inquiry
Reflections on Northern Ireland’s child abuse inquiry
Tories on the edge
With Scottish Conservative hopes dashed at the general election and a Conservative pact with the UUP leading to nothing, Patrick Haugseng looks at how Conservatives are now trying to make a break outside England.
Opening up the courts
With calls to roll cameras into our courtrooms from our own Attorney General and legal professionals across the UK, we ask if filming court proceedings really is the best way to open up our justice system and what other avenues might be available.
The Attorney General and the past
The CAJ's Mike Ritchie considers the role the Attorney General is playing in examining some of the most controversial moments of the Troubles
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