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Judiciary Reform – 2007

No developments observed this year.

Almost a decade after the signing the Belfast Agreement (i.e., the Good Friday Agreement) and constant insistence from Sinn Fein on the unconditional transfer of police and judicial powers to Northern Ireland, on 4 February 2010, the hardliner Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and Sinn Fein voted to approve a deal that paved the way for the transfer of judicial and policing powers.¹ The deal would allow the Northern Ireland Judicial Appointment Commission (NIJAC) to select and appoint, or recommend for appointment, applicants for all listed judicial offices, up to and including High Court Judge.

1. “Northern Ireland,” Keesing’s Record of World Events, 56 (March 2010): 49754.