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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Representatives from the Committee on the Administration of Justice (24 Feb 2022)

...St. Andrews Agreement in 2006. Into 2022, we are in a situation where even the core Good Friday Agreement commitment to, and achievement of, the incorporation of the European Convention on Human Rights, ECHR, into Northern Ireland law is under threat from the UK Government. While there were many welcome commitments within the body of NDNA, to date, far from it constituting a new...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Representatives from the Committee on the Administration of Justice (24 Feb 2022)

...that Strasbourg has to deal with. There would also be issues around the extent to which domestic remedies would have to be exhausted and indeed, whether the UK continues to incorporate the ECHR which, as we mentioned earlier, is under quite considerable threat. It would be a much swifter and more powerful process for the Government to intervene rather than for it to be left to individual...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Representatives from the Committee on the Administration of Justice (24 Feb 2022)

...of non-implementation and obstruction of rights-based commitments. There is no freestanding right at present to non-discrimination on the basis of language anywhere outside where it is parasitic to ECHR rights through the Human Rights Act, but a case would have been pretty straightforward on the grounds that a bill of rights would have a freestanding right to non-discrimination against...