Key Issues - Law and Order

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• selected reading list
• Policing in Northern Ireland
  • 'Powers of the Police', a chapter from the book Civil Liberties in Northern Ireland, The CAJ Handbook edited by Brice Dickson
  • 'Principles for Policing in Northern Ireland: A Discussion Paper' issued by the British government
  • See also the section on policing
• Bill of Rights
  • Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC). (2001). Consultation Document on a Bill of Rights, (September 2001), [HTML; 385KB]. Belfast: Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC).
  • Bill of Rights Forum (BORF). (2008). Bill of Rights Forum Final Report: Recommendations to the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission on a Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland, (31 March 2008), [PDF; 2490KB]. Belfast: Bill of Rights Forum (BORF).
  • Bill of Rights Forum (BORF). (2008). Correction to the Bill of Rights Forum Final Report, (31 March 2008), [PDF; 8KB]. Belfast: Bill of Rights Forum (BORF).
  • Bill of Rights Forum (BORF). (2008). Press Release about the Bill of Rights Forum Final Report, (31 March 2008), [PDF; 26KB]. Belfast: Bill of Rights Forum (BORF).
  • Northern Ireland Office (NIO). (2009). Consultation Paper - A Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland: Next Steps, (30 November 2009), [PDF; 410KB]. Belfast: NIO.
• Criminal Justice Review
  • Press Release on the publication of the Consultation Paper on the Review of the Criminal Justice System in Northern Ireland, 27 August 1998
  • Review of the Criminal Justice System in Northern Ireland: A Consultation Paper, 27 August 1998 [PDF FILE 187KB]
  • Press Release on the publication of the report of the Criminal Justice Review Group, 15 April 1999
  • Progress Report of the Criminal Justice Review Group, 15 April 1999
  • Press Release on the publication of the report of the Criminal Justice System Review, 30 March 2000
  • 'Review of the Criminal Justice System in Northern Ireland' the report of the Criminal Justice System Review, 30 March 2000
  • Justice (Northern Ireland) Bill, 2001 [PDF FILE 247KB]
  • Explanatory Notes for the Justice (Northern Ireland) Bill, 2001 [PDF FILE 369KB]
  • British government's Implementation Plan for the Justice (Northern Ireland) Bill, 2001 [PDF FILE 52KB]
  • Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 2002, (24 July 2002) {External_Link}
  • Criminal Justice Review: Implementation Plan Update June 2003 [PDF File; 2047KB]
• Extradition
  • 'Extradition' in Unsafe Haven: The United States, The IRA and Political Prisoners by Karen McElrath (2000)
• Prison and Prisoners
  • Prison Review Team (PRT). (2011). Review of the Northern Ireland Prison Service: Conditions, management and oversight of all prisons, (24 October 2011), (Owers Report), [PDF; 670KB]. Belfast: PRT.
  • Ford, David. (2011). Press Release on behalf of David Ford, then Minister for Justice, on the publication of the report of the Prison Review Team, (24 October 2011). Belfast: Department of Justice.
  
  
  • 'The State they are Still In. Republican Ex-Prisoners and their families: An Independent Evaluation' by Dr Pete Shirlow (2001)
  • 'No Sense of an Ending The effects of long-term imprisonment amongst Republican prisoners and their families', by Ruth Jamieson and Adrian Grounds (2002)
• Prevention Of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Acts
  • Statistics and Research Branch of the Northern Ireland Office (NIO). (2000) Northern Ireland Statistics on the Operation of the Prevention Of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Acts 1974, 1976, 1984 and 1989, [PDF; 209KB]. Belfast: Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA).
• Restorative Justice
• Terrorism Act
  • Lyness, D., and Carmichael, M. (2003) Northern Ireland Statistics on the Operation of the Terrorism Act 2000: Annual Statistics 2002, (NIO Research and Statistical Bulletin, 4/2003), [PDF; 132KB]. Belfast: Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA).
• List of source documents