CAJ

Equality Commission investigation into the NIO Legacy Bill

The Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ) and Pat Finucane Centre (PFC) have welcomed a report from the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland (ECNI - published today 29 September) that concludes the Northern Ireland Office (NIO) breached its Equality Scheme in relation to its proposed...

Tribunal judges divided on MI5 secret approvals for serious crime

Statement on behalf of the Pat Finucane Centre, Reprieve and Privacy International and CAJ. Five judges of the UK’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal have given a divided ruling over a secret MI5 policy allowing security service agents to commit serious crimes on UK soil. The judges decided 3-2 that MI5...

The Policing You Don’t See

Covert Policing and the accountability gap: Five years on from the transfer of ‘national security’ primacy to MI5 The programme of police reform ushered in by the peace settlement placed great emphasis on accountability and transparency.