This paper considers the scope of the range of protected victim categories in hate crime legislation, and considers the application of the principle of certainty in this context.
We inherently link miscarriages of justice with innocence. Yet the language of the term is not so restrictive, and implies that a broader definition can be contemplated, one encompassing all cases in which justice has not ...
Legislatures worldwide experience the same problem in drafting or amending hate crimes statutes: How is it possible to discriminate between victim groups, and which groups are worthy of legislative protection? This article ...
In October 2014 the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, in association with the NGO Working Party on Hate Crime, commissioned the Hate and Hostility Research Group at the University of Limerick to investigate the case for ...
Schweppe, Jennifer; Stannard, John(Queens University Belfast, School of Law, 2013)
We are grateful to the editors of the Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly for allowing us to
put together this special edition on ‘Law and Emotions’. But what is so special about
it? The very existence of such a field of ...
Data on hate crime is necessary for: the development of informed policy to tackle hate crime; an increased awareness of hate crime in social conscience generally and promoting investigation and prosecution of hate crimes. ...
