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File includes a TS statement from the Catholic Bishops of Northern Ireland concerning the use of plastic bullets, also names Bishops who support this statement and is signed by Cardinal Thomas O'Fiach. File also includes a document entitled "The Use of Plastic Bullets (or Baton Rounds) - The Legal Position" by unknown author, possibly Kevin Boyle. File also includes copy of TS statement from the Northern Ireland Association of Socialist Lawyers, the group "endorses the findings of the recent international tribunal of enquiry into the use of plastic bullets. . . " and describes in detail the group's opinion on use of plastic bullets in Northern Ireland.

File of typescript documents from various groups advocating for protest against Internment Without Trial in Northern Ireland. Includes statement from formed committee The Northern Ireland Freedom and Justice Campaign; statement signed by various academics and teachers of Law, including Kevin Boyle (Oct 14 1971); Hibernia magazine - 'End Internment Campaign' and a note of a protest, drafted by [Kevin Boyle] and said to be signed by 66 barristers. Statement from the Ad-Hoc Group to End Internment, outlining opinion against policy of internment and stating a meeting of invited members from various groups (list of groups attached) will be held to discuss potential end to the policy. Document is signed by Kevin McCorry. (n.d.) Attached is a card with anti-Internment imagery.
Print copy of Public Order Act (1951), sent to Boyle with note attached, copy "as requested".

Letter of 8 November 1996 from Kevin Boyle and Françoise Hampson to H.C. Krüger, Secretary to the European Commission of Human Rights, forwarding copies of statements (in Turkish with English translations) made by Şükran Aydın, Abid Aydın, and Seydo Aydın regarding the recent harassment they have faced from Turkish authorities.

"Statements of royalties from Figgis & Co. Publishers, Dawson St., Dublin, for ""L'Attaque"", ""Lux Atherna"", ""The Weekend of Dermot & Grace"" and ""Dé Luain"" to Eoghan Ó Tuairisc."

"Statements of royalties for year ending March 1971 from Allen Figgis to Eoghan Ó Tuairisc for ""The Weekend of Dermot and Grace"", ""Dé Luain"" and ""Lux Atherna""."

"Statement of royalties for ""Lux Atherna"" from Allen Figgis & Co. Ltd. to Eoghan Ó Tuairisc to the year ending March 1972."

"Statement of royalties on ""The Weekend of Dermot and Grace"" from Allen Figgis & Co. Ltd. to Eoghan Ó Tuairisc to the year ending March 1972."

Statements (in Turkish with English translations) made by 20 separate newspaper kiosk merchants and 32 separated paperboys noting threats made toward them for selling Özgür Gündem and their financial losses incurred as a result of being forced to not sell the newspaper.

Statements (in Turkish with English translation) made in advance of the 19 October 1995 hearing in Strasbourg regarding the Şükran Aydın case. Includes:
1) Statement of lawyer Meral Danış Beştaş made to H.C. Krüger, Secretary to the European Commission of Human Rights, noting that he will be unable to attend the hearing in Strasbourg on 19 October 1995 due to having to stay home to care for a sick child (16 October 1995, 2pp);
2) Statement of Nazmi Gür to Kerim Yıldız, Kurdish Human Rights Project, reiterating that Şükran Aydın and her husband are in hiding due to persecution (Şükran Aydın has previously alleged that she and her family have been subjected to intimidation and harassment following the communication by the Commission of her application to the Government, and particularly following the Commission’s decision to invite her to give oral evidence) and have instructed Gür not to reveal their location, but that ‘They stated that they had nothing left to lose but their honour and that for this reason they were determined to continue their application despite everything.’ (17 October 1995, 2pp).

Statement (in Turkish) of Kudret Haran, widow of Vahdettin Haran, itemising damages and losses incurred by herself, her father-in-law Mehmet Haran, and their family as a result of her husband's death, and describing her detention, interrogation, and torture by Turkish police because of her testimony before the European Commission of Human Rights. The statements are enclosed by a fax (in English) from lawyer Reyhan Yalçındağ to Chris Decker of the University of Essex Human Rights Centre.