Blog
Welcome to the NILQ Blog!
This section of the website hosts blog-style pieces by our NILQ contributors. These provide short overviews of authors’ articles in the journal – some already published, some forthcoming.
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Subordinating devolved competence through the market access principles
Nicholas Kilford
Undoing devolution by the back door? The implications of the United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020
Tom Hannant and Karen Morrow
What we talk about when we talk about ‘NHS privatisation’
Mary Guy and Okeoghene Odudu
Visual intrusion and nuisance
Francis McManus
The importance of subjectivity: Covid-19, Northern Ireland and business and human rights
Ciara Hackett, Ciaran O’Kelly, Samantha Hopkins and Clare Patton
The importance of being relational and Bates v The Post Office
Jessica Viven-Wilksch
Islamic finance disputes, to litigate or to arbitrate that is the question?
Abdul Karim Aldohni
The importance of pleading your defence before the Employment Tribunal
Emma McIlveen
The scope and rationale(s) of the defence of change of position
Duncan Sheehan
Domestic abuse – the ‘shadow pandemic’
Ronagh McQuigg
Being a ‘receptionist… administrator… social worker… priest’: wellbeing and the Northern Ireland Bar
Neil Graffin and Emma Jones
On pathogens and PIP: why lawyers should really care about mutating viruses
Michelle Rourke and Mark Eccleston-Turner
‘I presume she wanted it to happen’: rape, reasonable belief in consent, and law reform in Northern Ireland
Eithne Dowds
Protecting private information in the digital era: making the most effective use of the availability of the actions under the GDPR/DPA and the tort of misuse of private information
Fiona Brimblecombe and Helen Fenwick
The ‘chilling effect’ of defamation law in Northern Ireland?
Mark Hanna
Against the act/omission distinction
Mark Dsouza
The law of bare life
Ian Ward
Women who kill abusive partners: reviewing the impact of section 55(3) ‘fear of serious violence’ manslaughter – some empirical findings
Susan S M Edwards
Donald Trump and tyranny
Aoife O'Donoghue
Abuse and loss of control in homicide: comparative reform solutions
Heather Douglas and Alan Reed
Reasonable accommodation in Irish constitutional law
Shivaun Quinlivan and Lucy-Ann Buckley
Associative’ discrimination
Michael Connolly
Persistent legal inequalities and the colonial association of modern British citizenship
Devyani Prabhat
Constitutional law and empire in interwar Britain: universities, liberty, nationality and parliamentary supremacy
Donal K Coffey
Recalibrating the governance of remedial clauses in contract law
Moshood Abdussalam
The importation of external constitutional influences via the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
Roger Masterman
Crown act of state and detention in Afghanistan
Jane M Rooney
Duress and loss of control: fear and anger in excusatory defences
Glenys Williams
The ‘one man company’ after Patel v Mirza: attribution and illegality in Singularis Holdings v Daiwa Capital Markets
James C. Fisher
‘A leap forward’? Critiquing the criminalisation of domestic abuse in Northern Ireland
Rachel Killean
Access to COVID-19 vaccines and medicines: patents and compulsory licensing in the spotlight
Aisling McMahon
Causing controversy: interpreting the requirements of causation in criminal law and tort law
Gemma Turton and Sally Kyd
Selecting judges for the High Court in Northern Ireland
John Morison, Brice Dickson and Andrew Godden
Moving on from a judicial preference for mediation to embed appropriate dispute resolution
Masood Ahmed
Property in the human body?
Neil Maddox
How contractual terms determine fiduciary duties: a two-stage process
David Gibbs-Kneller and Derek Whayman
Alimony drones, gold diggers and meal tickets for life: how stereotypes in the press point to a need for judicial reflexivity
Sharon Thompson
Promoting the next generation of health law scholarship
John Coggon and Judy Laing
Persons, populations, parity of esteem . . . and the NHS Long Term Plan
John Coggon and Judy Laing
Buying bulk to boost NHS funding? Some legal and governance challenges
Albert Sanchez-Graells
‘My child, my choice’
Dave Archard
Reproductive loss and disposal of pregnancy remains
Louise Austin and Sheelagh McGuinness
Stealing souls? Photographs and privacy
Rebecca Moosavian
Fakebook: why Facebook makes the fake news problem inevitable
Dr Paul Bernal
Weapons of mass distraction
Robin Barnes
‘Benefit tourism’ post-Brexit? Tackling the ghost through more EU social engagement
Dr Konstanze von Papp
Brexit and the island of Ireland – any news from the EU’s revised offer for a withdrawal agreement?
Professor Dagmar Schiek
Brexit and the security of the European project: citizenship and free movement as a case study
Adjunct Professor Massimo Fichera
The EU’s role in policing the rule of law: reflections on recent Polish experience
Professor Robert Grzeszczak
The UK out, Social Europe in? Rethinking EU social integration in the wake of Brexit
Mr Konstantinos Alexandris Polomarkakis
EU environmental law and policy post-Brexit: models for engagement between the EU27 and the UK
Dr Roderic O’Gorman
The island of Ireland and ‘Brexit’: a new approach
Professor Dagmar Schiek
Creeping compulsion to mediate, the Constitution and the Convention
Dr Ronán Feehily
Post-Brexit Britain and the pay culture: challenges and opportunities
Dr Demetra Arsalidou and Dr Alison Lui
Do constructive trusts deter disloyalty?
Dr Andrew D Hicks
Harmonisation of avoidance rules in European Union insolvencies: the critical elements in formulating a scheme
Professor Andrew Keay
Contesting the displacement thesis: human rights, social movements and the bigger picture
Dr Paul O'Connell
Why and how should we understand state secrecy?
Dr Lydia Morgan