Letter from Lowry, Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, to Boyle, thanking him for his enclosed law annotations and also comments on the Diplock courts of Northern Ireland and also possible research into the relationship between confessions and convictions and offers further praise of Boyle's legal practices.
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Letter from Barry Shaw, Director of Public Prosecutions for Northern Ireland, to Boyle and offering thanks for Boyle's annotated law notes of the Northern Ireland emergency Provisions Act 1978 and hopes to meet Boyle should he be in Belfast.
Letter from Jim Fahy, Western Correspondent, RTE, Galway to Kevin Boyle, thanking Boyle for him praise of the recent 'Denmark programme' and also says he will be in contact again soon with Boyle and Leonard Silke about another programme
Copy letter from Boyle to Prof. Twining, Warwickshire, England, updating him on access to clients at Strasbourg by their solicitors, with comment on Francis Keenan. Also comments and encloses a copy of Prison Rules and relates these prison rules to various aspects of the European Convention on Human Rights and lists the main issues regarding complaints from prisoners regarding conditions, housing, interrogation and rights while in prison.
Copy letter sent by Boyle to the Irish Times arguing against the recent profile in the Times on the Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, Sir Robert Lowry, by David McKitterick, referring to lack of proper address and title afforded to Lowry in the article and mentions a double standard in the press regarding Irish and Northern Irish legal reporting.
Letter from Mike Farrell, Belfast, to Boyle, which Boyle has marked 'personal', thanking Boyle for loaning Farrell documents for his research, further commenting at practice at Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, where all requested files are vetted prior to release to researchers, resulting in "Wholesale closure of files many of which had previously been open to the public. . ." and comments in detail on what files he requested were restricted and other general comments about access to files at PRONI.
Letter from Prof. Bradley, Faculty of Law, University of Edinburgh, to Boyle, discussing the talk Boyle is to deliver to IALS, which was a law school aimed conference. Bradley details the other speakers. Boyle was to speak on the response of the legal system to the political and security crises in both parts of Ireland.
Letter from Prof. Kyle, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, London, to Boyle, thanking him for agreeing to come to speak at the institute and discussing updates such as the Bennett Report which "vindicated all we have both said and done about methods of police interrogation in the North."
Letter from Bradley, University of Edinburgh to Boyle, thanking Boyle for the paper he contributed to the resent IALS workshop, and adds "I hope you suffered no ill effects on the previous week in Strasbourg."
Letter from Walter, Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham, to Boyle, seeking information on Boyle's research into the history of policing.