Table of Contents

Preface ; 1. Introduction ; 2. The Background to the Conflict and the Rights Discourse ; 3. Early Fumblings with the Convention ; 4. Internment and Restrictions on Movement ; 5. Powers of Arrest ; 6. Detention Pending Charge or Trial ; 7. The Right Not to be Ill-treated ; 8. The Right to a Fair Trial ; 9. The Right to Life ; 10. The Right to a Private and Family Life ; 11. Freedom of Expression, Belief, and Assembly ; 12. Freedom from Discrimination ; 13. The Final Picture ; Appendix: Applications lodged in Strasbourg relating to the conflict in Northern Ireland

About the Author

Brice Dickson has been Professor of International and Comparative Law at Queen's University Belfast since 2005. He served full-time as the Chief Commissioner of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission from 1999 to 2005, a statutory body established as a result of the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement of 1998. He is the author of several books including The Legal System of Northern Ireland and his edited volumes Judicial Activism in Common Law Supreme Courts (OUP, 2007) and The Judicial House of Lords (OUP 2009, with Louis Blom-Cooper QC, and Gavin Drewry).

Reviews

Dickson considers the impact not only of the Convention within the conflict, but also of the conflict on the Convention...For anyone interested not only in Northern Ireland but also in the development of the Convention, these in-depth and meticulously researched chapters will be an important resource. Dr Fiona de Londras, Newsletter for the Committee on the Administration of Justice The European Convention on Human Rights and the Conflict in Northern Ireland challenges the ECHR's role as the most lauded and respected of the human rights protection systems. In the very conditions where human rights are at their most vulnerable, Dickson argues that the ECHR has been largely irrelevant in vindicating rights...The ramifications of this conclusion go beyond Northern Ireland, becoming increasingly pertinent with the current struggle against Al-Qaeda...is therefore an impressive piece of work which shall demand attention from legal, political and historical scholars with an interest not only in Northern Ireland, but the international human rights movement as a whole Alan Greene, The Irish Jurist