Amanda Kramer Brexit and Rights Engagement Network One of the biggest difficulties facing the UK government in the current Brexit negotiations is how to resolve the problems that Brexit has created for Northern Ireland. Of these problems, the UK is facing increasing pressure to resolve one in particular: the potential borders that might arise …
Brexit and Human Rights in Northern Ireland
Alan Greene Brexit and Rights Engagement Network As the Brexit negotiations reach their endgame, the border on the island of Ireland has become the main stumbling block. The so-called ‘Irish question’ is, however, much more multi-faceted than just the issue of ‘border checks’. The Good Friday Agreement (GFA) which has brought relative peace …
Now is the time to consider a bill of rights for Scotland
Kirsteen Shields Brexit and Rights Engagement Network The UK government is chasing an illusion of sovereignty via Brexit, but it is a change that will come at the expense of our rights. Westminster will remove one of the few, and relatively new, limits on its powers when it revokes membership of the EU. …
Incorporating International Human Rights in a Devolved Context
Kasey McCall-Smith Brexit and Rights Engagement Network International human rights treaties universally contain a call to States parties to give legal effect to the obligations found in the treaty text. Article 2(2) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, for example, obliges states ‘to adopt such laws or other measures as …
Taking Stock: Scotland and Brexit
Criminal Cooperation, Brexit and the devolved nations: where are we and what is the way ahead?
Anni Pues Brexit and Rights Engagement Network Brexit will bring to an end judicial and police cooperation between the UK and the EU as we know it. The UK government seeks to retain key elements through a specific ‘security treaty’. Its White Paper from July 2018 envisages that for the area of ‘internal …
Human Rights Reform: Adjudication and Enforcement of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights?
Katie Boyle Brexit and Rights Engagement Network The way that human rights are protected in the UK is changing. This has a direct impact on the different types of adjudication, enforcement and routes to remedy that might be available for those who experience violations of human rights, including civil, political, economic, social and cultural (CPESC) …
Brexit and the Interpretation of Domestic Rights
Niall O’Connor Brexit and Rights Engagement Network It might be thought that Brexit would have very little impact on the interpretation of domestic rights. Surely, post-Brexit, British judges will continue to interpret British law as they always have done? The reality may not be so simple. First, there has long been interaction between courts in …