Review of Criminal Justice System NI

Last Updated: Tuesday, 9 March 2021


The Commission strongly agrees that international human rights standards should inspire
the principal aims of the criminal justice system. The aims should:

 protect individuals against ill-treatment;

- ensure that fundamental human rights are infringed only where there are

  • - objectively justifiable grounds for doing so;- protect citizens from crime and fear of crime;- ensure an open and inclusive system.
review-of-criminal-justice-system-northern-ireland-november-2000.pdf