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You can download the full text of the lecture delivered to the S.A.S.H group on the Shankill Road on 16 August 2021 Lecture on the ‘peace process’ 16 August 2021 PDF Below are some extracts from the lecture: On the phrase ‘peace process’ “The phrase ‘peace process’ has become part of the linguistic textbook of Northern […]
By Jamie Bryson @JamieBrysonCPNI The objective of the Protocol- set out within their own communique- is to reorient trade away from GB and towards the Irish Republic. It is an obvious conclusion therefore that continuing- for any period of time- to implement the Protocol is to assist it to embed. So too is it intellectually […]
by Jamie Bryson The lack of investigation into a procession held by republican group Relatives for Justice on 29 July 2021, when viewed in the light of the PSNI desperation to pursue peaceful loyalist protests, illuminates another example of two-tier policing. A group of republicans gathered in fancy dress at Stormont on 29 July 2021, […]
You can download the latest Unionist Voice Policy Studies report analysing the UK Government Command Paper on the NI Protocol released on 21 July 2021 Analysis of UK Government Protocol Command Paper [July 2021]
By Jamie Bryson The call for ‘mandatory regulation’ of bonfires from nationalists is unsurprising. In keeping with their ‘never waste a crisis’ mantra, it was entirely predictable that they would weaponise a tragic accident at a bonfire in Ballysillan, and utilised it in the continued advancement of their cultural war. However, it was surprising to […]
The report, compiled by a working group of twenty-two persons representing all shades of the PUL community from diverse socio-economic and cultural backgrounds, deals with the most prominent areas of PUL culture and seeks to present a basic collective analysis of each. This is the first stage in a project to develop a Charter of […]
By Jamie Bryson On Monday (5 July 2021) a remarkable judgment was issued in Belfast’s High Court. When I say ‘remarkable’, it was not so for its wider significance, but rather because it illuminated how an infectious culture of both deference to unsubstantiated claims of the PSNI, and associated political considerations, have come to pervade […]
By Jamie Bryson It is an unlawful use of the prerogative power to deploy it in a manner which is contrary to primary legislation. That is an elementary proposition, re-stated at paragraph 55 of Miller (1). It is beyond dispute. Colton J found that the Act of Union conflicted with the Protocol. Therefore, by the […]
You can now download an analysis paper which argues that Justice Colton is wrong on his conclusion in relation to the implied repeal of the Act of Union Analysis of judgment in Allister’s application [2021] NIQB 64
By Jamie Bryson The controversial ruling came to a highly questionable decision on the unprecedented question as to whether the general provisions within a more recent constitutional statute can impliedely repeal an earlier constitutional statute. With virtually no guiding case law as authority for the answer, Mr Justice Colton nevertheless ruled that the Act of […]