Jun 8, 2010
McQuigg on Domestic Violence Litigation
Ronagh McQuigg of QUB School of Law has just published “How Could Human Rights Law be Used by the Courts to Assist Victims of Domestic Violence? A Comparative Study” in the International Journal of Human Rights Law. According to the abstract:
It has been increasingly recognised in recent years that domestic violence constitutes a human rights issue. This paper seeks to shed light on the question of how human rights law may be used in the area of domestic violence through the medium of a litigation strategy. The method used is a comparative assessment of the approaches taken towards gender issues by the Constitutional Courts in three states that have famously dynamic judiciaries – India, South Africa and Canada. A number of the obstacles to the effectiveness of human rights law are also examined.
