Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly

This case concerns a legal challenge by For Women Scotland against the Scottish Government’s revised statutory guidance on its Gender Representation on Public Boards (Scotland) Act 2018, which For Women Scotland argued misinterpreted the definition of ‘sex’ under the Equality Act 2010. The case centred on statutory interpretation and whether the term ‘sex’ in the Equality Act...

This case note offers a critical analysis of the United Kingdom Supreme Court’s widely noted decision in Standish v Standish, exploring its implications for the conceptual boundaries between matrimonial and non-matrimonial assets. The judgment introduces and affirms the concept of ‘matrimonialisation’, offering clearer guidance on when or whether non-matrimonial prop...

In Paul and others v Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust the United Kingdom Supreme Court (UKSC) held that a doctor who negligently misdiagnoses a patient does not owe a duty to family members who witness their death or injury. Such claimant witnesses – or ‘secondary victims’ – have hitherto been able to claim for psychiatric injury under an exception to the rule that ther...

In recent years politicians have been increasingly accused of making deceptive representations to the public. The false or misleading information imparted in these representations has the potential to influence how the public forms political preferences, leading to broader democratic implications when the public engages in democratic procedures. While these representations ha...

Abstract
Few figures have left a deeper imprint on the legal history of Northern Ireland than John Clarke MacDermott (1896–1979) and yet his career has never been the subject of a legally comprehensive study. This article offers that study, drawing on reported judgments, publicly archived papers, academic commentaries, and a small set of privately archived materials belong...