CCBS co-hosts online discussion of a proposed Truth Recovery Process

In partnership with the UCS Centre for Ethics in Public Life and the Institute of Irish Studies of the University of Liverpool, the Centre for Cross Border Studies hosted an on-line forum to discuss a proposed Truth Recovery Process (TRP) on Friday, 26th November.

The TRP aims to address some of the ongoing issues of harm, trauma, political intractability and social division left by the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

The forum was chaired by Mr Justice Richard Humphreys. Michael Lynn SC and Céile Varley BL presented legal opinion on the compatibility of the TRP with the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), and responses were provided by Brice Dickson (Professor Emeritus of International and Comparative Law at Queens University, Belfast), Pat McCartan (a former Judge of the Circuit Court), and Alan McBride (manager of the WAVE Trauma Centre in Belfast).