Northern Ireland Dimensions to the First Decade of the United Kingdom Supreme Court |
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| Authors: | Brice Dickson Conor McCormick |
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| Affiliation: | Respectively Emeritus Professor of International and Comparative Law and Lecturer in Law at Queen's University Belfast. We are most grateful to Gordon Anthony, Gráinne McKeever and Jane Rooney for their constructive comments on an earlier version of this article. We are also grateful to the anonymous reviewers of a later draft. Their comments were most helpful to us when revising it for publication. Responsibility for the final version is ours alone. Because we knew that in December 2019 Lord Kerr was due to give a lecture on the impact of the UKSC on the law of Northern Ireland, we took the liberty of sending him a draft of the article in advance of his talk, not for his comments but for his information. His lecture can be viewed at https://www.supremecourt.uk/watch/ten-year-anniversary/lord-kerr.html (all URLs were last accessed on 2 May 2020). |
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| Abstract: | This article focuses on the relationship between the United Kingdom Supreme Court and Northern Ireland over the course of a constitutionally significant period of time, namely the first decade of the Court's existence. It does this by exploring what difference the Court has made to the law of Northern Ireland, what significance the cases from Northern Ireland have had for the law in other parts of the United Kingdom, and what part has been played in the Court's work by the sole Justice from Northern Ireland, Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore, and by the Attorney General for Northern Ireland, John Larkin QC. It concludes that the Court has established itself as an indispensable component of the legal system of Northern Ireland. |
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