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 ...
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 ...
O'Sullivan, Catherine; Schweppe, Jennifer; Spain, Eimear(University College Cork, 2013)
This article serves as an introduction to this special edition of the I.J.L.S. on the recent developments on abortion law in Ireland. It briefly explains what were the two main drivers behind the introduction of the ...
Discusses the issue of abortion in Ireland following the European Court of Human Rights decision in A v Ireland (25579/05) and suggests that Ireland is under an obligation to introduce legislation which reconciles the right ...
