Northern Ireland Scrutiny Committee
24 June 2026
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Northern Ireland Scrutiny Committee House of Lords
00:01 - 02:11
Speaker 2
Broadcasting Rick Morrell if that's ready Breeda? Yeah. Okay. 5, 4... Good morning and welcome to this public meeting of the Northern Ireland Scrutiny Committee.
We're today holding our third public evidence session of our inquiry into Article 2 of the Protocol Windsor Framework, the so-called diminution of rights provision. We are we're joined today by Professor Christopher McCrudden CBE. He is Emeritus Professor of Equality and Human Rights Law at Queen's University Belfast and also a member of Blackstone Chambers, very distinguished chambers in London. We are expecting to be joined shortly by Samuel Willis, who's a very distinguished but junior barrister at 11 King's Bench Walk, 11 KBW barristers' chambers, another very distinguished set of chambers. And they will both be very welcome, you already Professor McCrudden are, and we very much look forward to their evidence.
We would say Professor that we would like you to introduce yourself briefly the first time you speak and declare any relevant interests in relation to the inquiry. Today's meeting is being broadcast and a verbatim transcript will be taken for subsequent publication. It will be sent to you to check for accuracy. I refer to the register of members' interests as published on the committee's website. So I'm going to start now Professor McCrudden.
I don't know quite what's happened to your colleague who we're expecting to be with us but we'll introduce him when he turns up. I'm going to start the session by asking the first question. What are the origins of the rights safeguards and equality of opportunity, the so-called RSCO paragraph 1 provisions on human rights in the Belfast Good Friday Agreement please?
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