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Cases which address the legacy of the Northern Ireland conflict all-to-often tend to be cordoned off from general discourse about human rights jurisprudence in the UK. Indeed, it can be reassuring for accounts of the UK’s contemporary constitutional order focused on Whitehall and Westminster to file such legacy litigation under the heading of “dark days, long ago, over the water”. This article explores the shortcomings with this approach through the lens of the UK Supreme Court’s decision McQuillan, McGuigan and McKenna. It highlights not only the Court’s discomfort with dealing with such cases, and efforts to constrain such litigation, but also identifies a sea change in the Justices’ approaches to the limits of the Human Rights Act, and informs understandings of the operation of the rule against bias and the doctrine of legitimate expectations. It is thus a decision which both reshapes the Northern Ireland conflict’s legacy litigation and which provides a significant window into shifting attitudes to human rights claims in the UK Supreme Court.
Author(s): Deb A, Murray C
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: European Human Rights Law Review
Year: 2022
Volume: 2022
Issue: 4
Pages: 395-411
Print publication date: 10/09/2022
Online publication date: 08/08/2022
Acceptance date: 01/07/2022
Date deposited: 26/07/2022
ISSN (electronic): 1361-1526
Publisher: Sweet and Maxwell
URL: .www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk
ePrints DOI: 10.57711/ks6g-1d75
