EU data protection authorities find that the consent popups that plagued Europeans for years are illegal. All data collected through them must be deleted. This decision impacts Google’s, Amazon’s and Microsoft’s online advertising businesses.
We are hiring! ICCL Procedural Rights Fellow
About the Fellowship Recruitment is commencing for the ICCL and The Bar of Ireland Procedural Rights Fellowship. This nine-month Fellowship Programme is for early career barristers (years 1-3). The Fellowship will involve a barrister advancing a programme of research, policy …
New garda powers include power to arrest for minor offences and detention beyond 24 hours
7 December 2021 A new Bill to introduce a general power of arrest and to remove the 24-hour limit to detention for questioning will come before the Oireachtas Justice Committee on Wednesday. The Bill will seek to limit access to …
ICCL sends briefing on new legislation to Oireachtas
3 December 2021 Ahead of an emergency Cabinet meeting on COVID-19, and following new advice from NPHET and new legislation rushed through the Dáil, ICCL sent a briefing to all Oireachtas members. In it we raise four primary concerns with …
Defence Rights in Evidentiary Proceedings
In 2021 ICCL wrapped up its work on DREP, a European wide project funded by the EU Justice Programme and coordinated by Fair Trials International. DREP took an in-depth look at defence rights in evidentiary procedures and gathered knowledge about …
ICCL Policing Reports
A Human Rights Based Approach to Policing On 14 September 2018 ICCL launched a report by the former human rights advisor to thePolicing Board of Northern Ireland, Alyson Kilpatrick, on why and how a human rights basedapproach to Garda reform …
ICCL submission to the Judicial Planning Working Group
The low number of judges per capita in Ireland has led to lengthy delays in the justice system.
ICCL welcomes government commitments on torture and enforced disappearances
11 November 2021 The Irish Council for Civil Liberties has welcomed commitments from government on preventing torture and ensuring justice for enforced disappearances. Yesterday the government made these commitments to an audience of its peers at the UN Human Rights …
ICCL: Special Criminal Court a fundamental denial of Constitutional rights to a fair trial
2 November 2021 The Irish Council for Civil Liberties says the Special Criminal Court presents an insuperable obstacle to the right to a fair trial. As we publish our submission to the Independent Review Group on the Offences Against the …
Donegal abuse could and should have been prevented: ICCL
28 October 2021 Human rights group the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has said the longstanding abuse which took place at St Joseph’s Community Hospital and the Ard Gréine Court complex could and should have been prevented by a …