Consider any of the extraordinary legislative responses to the threat of terrorism in EITHER the era of the IRA or post 9-11.
This assignment will be marked out of 100%
Also, this assignment contributes to 100% of the total module marks.
The word limit is 6000 words.
Assessment Task:
Your Journal should contain 4 journal entries plus 4 workshop/discussion board reflections from the following topics;
Each Journal entry will be marked out of and contribute 20% to your overall module mark. So, 80% in total.
Your workshop reflections account for 20% of the module marks and will be based on your online [or physical in Term 2] attendance, engagement and participation.
In addition, you need to engage in classes and in the discussion board activity comprising reflections on the topic areas. More so, engagement in the workshops and discussion boards for your chosen topic areas is compulsory and you are required to complete discussion board reflections.
20% in total.
HARD COPY by
5pm, 23.04.21 to TC117 [if no lockdown]
4. Terrorism, Human Rights and the Rule of Law
Gerry Adams has won his appeal to have two convictions for attempting to escape from prison in the 1970s overturned. The Supreme Court said the former Sinn Féin president’s convictions were quashed because Mr Adams’ detention was unlawful. He attempted to escape from the Maze Prison, also known as Long Kesh internment camp, in 1973 and 1974. Lord Kerr explained that Mr Adams, a former West Belfast MP, had been detain ed under an ICO made under the Detention of Terrorists (Northern Ireland) Order 1972 and that “such an order could be made where the secretary of state considered that an individual was involved in terrorism”.
In the court’s writt en judgment, Lord Kerr said the power to make such an order was “a momentous one“, describ ing it as “a power to detain without trial and potentially for a limitless period”.
Gerry Adams. former Sinn Féin leader welcom ed the Supreme Court’s decision, say ing internment without trial “set aside the normal principles of law and was bas ed on a blunt and brutal piece of coercive legislation”.
Consider any of the extraordinary legislative responses to the threat of terrorism in EITHER the era of the IRA or post 9-11.
OR
“Human rights are not a privilege conferr ed by government. They are every human being’s entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does not depend, and must not be declar ed to be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or a sovereign.”
Consider the competing arguments around this issue by applying Natural Law and Legal Positivist views.
