Introduction

Abstract

This special issue of the Constitutional Forum publishes, for the first time, several articles and documents which have hitherto not been available or discussed in detail. In particular, it examines several events occurring between October 1980 and October 1981 from new perspectives. These perspectives come from participants who were either less well-known or not perceived to have been central or critical to the direction of negotiations during this period of time.

The articles in this special issue collectively argue that these “other” participants were important in their own right, and the shape of patriation — if it had occurred at all — would have been considerably different had these individuals not been involved.