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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. 76 No. 1 (2025): Spring

Published: 06.05.2025

Special issue: On-going challenges, responsibility and influences in healthcare law and policy – essays in honour of Chris Newdick

Guest editor: Thérèse Callus 

Editorial

Articles

Exceptionality in the context of individual funding requests

James Hart, Sapfo Lignou, Mark Sheehan
Abstract 48 | NILQ 76.1.2 Hart et al Downloads 14

Page 8-25

Equality, discrimination and exceptionality in access to healthcare

Rachel Horton
Abstract 67 | NILQ 76.1.3 Horton Downloads 22

Page 26-50

Contract, social relations and the outsourcing of publicly funded healthcare

Kenneth Veitch
Abstract 56 | NILQ 76.1.6 Veitch Downloads 8

Page 103-117

Developing product liability networks for AI systems in the medical context

James Devenney, Geraint Howells
Abstract 57 | NILQ 76.1.7 Devenny and Howells Downloads 21

Page 118-139

Commentaries and Notes

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The Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly is a legal research journal published quarterly by the School of Law at Queen's University Belfast.