In Ireland as in the United Kingdom one of the areas in which the transposition of the European Convention on Human Rights into domestic law (ECHR Act 2003 (Ire); HRA 1998 (UK)) has given rise to intense litigation is that of public housing and, more particularly, the removal of individuals from public authority housing. This(…)
We are delighted to welcome this guest contribution from Dr Illan Rua Wall of Oxford Brookes University. You can find out more about Illan on the guest contributors page. This is the second contribution to our Human Rights Lexicon and in this post Illan considers radical responses to the right to housing. Radical Social Responses(…)
NAMA, as Irish readers will know all too well, is the proposed National Asset Management Agency. To grossly simplify the story (we are not economists here at HRinI, as far as I know) NAMA will manage the property-related bad loans (considerable) of Irish banks – the hangover of our ill-fated construction boom. Where necessary, it(…)
