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The Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly is a leading peer-reviewed journal that provides an international forum for articles, commentaries and notes in all areas of legal scholarship and across a range of methodologies including doctrinal, theoretical and socio-legal.
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Current Issue
Vol. 77 No. 1 (2026): Spring
Full Issue
Articles
The reform of Irish limited partnerships: in whose interest?
Abstract 39 | NILQ 77.1.1 Berry Downloads 18Page 1-45
Judicial security of tenure: the dangers of side-stepping constitutional protections
Abstract 37 | NILQ 77.1.2 Monaghan Downloads 16Page 46-65
Legal and judicial responses to violence against women in Nigeria: a critical analysis of legislative frameworks and case law
Abstract 34 | NILQ 77.1.3 Babington Onuh Downloads 17Page 66-88
The legal life of Lord MacDermott
Abstract 29 | NILQ 77.1.4 Dickson and McCormick Downloads 18Page 89-177
Towards introducing a new criminal offence covering politicians making egregious deceptive representations to the public
Abstract 32 | NILQ 77.1.5 Catley Downloads 31Page 178-204
Commentaries and Notes
The narrow(ing) scope of duty: clinical negligence and secondary victims after Paul and others v Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
Abstract 33 | NILQ 77.1.6 N&Cs Kotecha Downloads 16Page 205-226
‘Matrimonialisation’ in Standish v Standish: new word, new battlegrounds?
Abstract 24 | NILQ 77.1.7 N&Cs Hansen et al Downloads 10Page 227-235
The definition of sex: For Women Scotland (FWS) Ltd v The Scottish Ministers (2025)
Abstract 82 | NILQ 77.1.8 N&Cs Murray and O'Donoghue Downloads 45Page 236-244
The Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly is a legal research journal published quarterly by the School of Law at Queen's University Belfast.