Feminist Judgment Projects: Ireland & Northern Ireland

The Northern/Irish Feminist Judgments Project writes the ‘missing feminist judgments’ in appellate and first instance decisions which have shaped Irish and Northern Irish law. A collective of academics and practitioners have rewritten 26 decisions across a range of substantive areas of law, with each judgment accompanied by a commentary explaining the original decision and its social context. The judgments were published in Máiréad Enright, Julie McCandless and Aoife O’Donoghue, Northern/Irish Feminist Judgments: Judges’ Troubles and the Gendered Politics of Identity (Hart Publishing, 2017).

Available Extracts:

• Julie McCandless, Máiréad Enright and Aoife O’Donoghue, ‘Introduction: Troubling Judgment’ (LSE Working Paper, forthcoming version of introduction published by Hart)

• Marian Duggan and Julie McCandless, ‘“Right Thinking People” and Suffering Through the Politics of Difference in Northern Ireland: A Feminist Judgment’ (judgment and commentary in pre-published version of chapter)

• Ruth Fletcher, ‘Attorney General v X and others: An Imagined Feminist Judgment’ (pre-published version of chapter)

• Liam Thornton, ‘MhicMathúna v Ireland’ (pre-published version of chapter)

• Catherine O’Rourke, ‘In the Matter of an Application by Evelyn White for Judicial Review’ [2000] NI 432, [2004] NICA 1’ pre-published version of chapter)

• C R G Murray, ‘Feminist Judgment: E v Chief Constable of Ulster [2008] UKHL 66’

• Sara Ramshaw, ‘Commentary on Family Planning Association of Northern Ireland v the Minister for Health, Social Services and Public Safety’ pre-published version of chapter)

• Joanne Conaghan and Fergus Ryan, ‘McKinley v Minister for Defence’ (prepublished version of chapter)

• At the launch of the book (25 March 2017, Dublin) Noelle Brown read an extract from a feminist judgment in the book: Vicky Conway, ‘The Report of the Tribunal of Inquiry into the “Kerry Babies Case”’

• Vicky Conway, ‘Kerry Babies: Tribunal report was Controversial, Divisive, and Raised More Questions than Answers’, Irish Examiner (online) 18 January 2018

• ‘Northern/Irish Feminist Judgments – Re-Imagining Court Decisions’ on University of Toronto, reprohealthlaw blog (26 May 2017)

Reviews:

• Justice Aileen Donnelly [2017] 1 Irish Judicial Studies Journal 90

• Rebecca Anderson, ‘In Conversation with the Law: Exploring the Northern/Irish Feminist Judgements Project’ on Impakter, 28 July 2016

• Kcasey McLoughlin (2018) 43(2) Alternative Law Journal 146

• Maureen O’Sullivan (2017) 58 Irish Jurist 202

• Bartholomew Begley (2018) May/June Books Ireland 16

 Commentary/Other Resources:

• Julie McCandless, Máiréad Enright and Aoife O’Donoghue, ‘Northern Irish Feminist Judgments: Judges’ Troubles and the Gendered Politics of Identity in Northern/Irish Courts’ (LSE Law Policy Briefing 17, 2016)

• ·Aoife O’Donoghue, Máiréad Enright and Julie McCandless, ‘Northern/Irish Feminist Judgments Project: The Gendered Politics of Identity in Irish and Northern Irish Courts’ (Durham University, Law School Research Briefing No 21, 2015)

• Dr Aoife O’Donogue discusses the Project in this video.

• Susan Barry, ‘Feminist Judgements: Amending History’, University Observer (online) 7 December 2015