Lillian Pollack

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Dr Lillian Pollack, a recent graduate of Queen’s University Belfast, successfully defended her doctoral thesis concerning the intersection of equality legislation and cultural policy in Northern Ireland this past spring. She recently won the best paper prize at the Leicester Law School Postgraduate Research Conference, and will commence a training contract with a commercial law firm in 2023.

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Nov 22, 2022 ∙ 24 min

Re Toner [2017] NIQB 49

In Northern Ireland, one of the most significant human rights instruments resulting from the Good Friday/Belfast Agreement in 1998 is Section 75 (s. 75) of the Northern Ireland Act 1998. It legally binds public authorities to not only have due regard to the promotion of equality of opportunity amongst nine protected categories of persons (those of differing religious belief, political opinion, racial group, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender, those with dependents and those...