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Bike repair and cycling training for your firm – and all for a good cause
Not too long ago, a friend of mine, Jem Stein, set up a brilliant social enterprise called the Bike Project. It has gone from strength to strength. The project is now loking for (i) new corporate...
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Public and private law wrongs are not the same – Court of Appeal
Tchenguiz v. Director of the Serious Fraud Office [2014] EWCA Civ 472, 15 April 2014 – read judgment This judgment is a neat illustration of how important it is to keep the concepts of public law and...
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Article 11: Right to strike and insecure workers – Lauren Godfrey
Two different bodies in the last week have reflected on issues concerning the fundamental imbalance in the employment relationship. This provides an opportunity to reflect on what, if any, role human...
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Not unlawful to refuse egg freezing therapy for Crohn’s sufferer
Rose, R (on the application of) v Thanet Clinical Commissioning Group [2014] EWHC 1182 (Admin) 15 April 2014 – read judgment Jeremy Hyam of 1 Crown Office Row represented the claimant in this case. He...
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Grayling on the JR Attack, Sacked Christian Nursery Worker and Al-Sweady...
Welcome back to the UK Human Rights Roundup, your regular Easter egg hunt of human rights news and views. The full list of links can be found here. You can find previous roundups here. Links compiled...
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Article 11: Right to strike and insecure workers
By Lauren Godfrey 1COR Two different bodies in the last week have reflected on issues concerning the fundamental imbalance in the employment relationship. This provides an opportunity to consider...
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Travails of the War Horse orchestra
Ashworth and others v the Royal National Theatre [2014] 1176 – read judgment Anyone who saw one of the early performances of War Horse in its first season at the National Theatre will remember how...
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Strasbourg acting as the EU Court’s enforcer
Dhahbi v.Italy, ECtHR, 8 April 2014 – read judgment – in French only A case to get the Sun leader writers confused, in that the Strasbourg Court was making sure that Italy did not get away with...
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Closed material in UK proceedings cannot be disclosed in Strasbourg
Wang Yam v Attorney General [2014] EW Misc 10 (CCrimC) 27 February 2014 – read judgment It is for the UK government to decide whether to vary an order preventing publication of material heard in...
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Not in our name: Parliamentary committee rejects Government’s case for...
Angela Patrick, Director of Human Rights Policy at JUSTICE, summarises the important Joint Committee on Human Rights report “The implications for access to justice of the Government’s proposals to...
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Disclosure of medical records breached patient’s human rights – Strasbourg
L.H. v Latvia [2014] ECHR 453 (29 April 2014) - read judgment The release of confidential patient details to a state medical institution in the course of her negotiations with a hospital over a lawsuit...
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Judicial Review, Legal Aid and Operation Cotton – the Human Rights Roundup
Welcome back to the UK Human Rights Roundup, your regular spring bouquet of human rights news and views. The full list of links can be found here. You can find previous roundups here. Links compiled by...
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Serious fraud trial abandoned because of cuts to legal aid for defence...
R v Scott Crawley and others – read judgement A judge has halted a serious fraud trial after defendants claimed they could not get adequate representation because cuts to legal aid, and as a result...
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UKHRB event: The Future of Human Rights – 21 May 2014
I am delighted to announce that the UK Human Rights Blog in association with Hurst Publishers and Berwin Leighton Paisner are organising a fascinating panel debate, chaired by me, on Wed 21 May 2014....
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Anonymity order compatible with Convention and common law – Supreme Court
A (Respondent) v British Broadcasting Corporation (Appellant) (Scotland) [2014] UKSC 25 – read judgment This appeal related to whether the Scottish Courts took the correct approach to prohibit the...
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Press has no direct role in welfare proceedings in Court of Protection
G (Adult), Re [2014] (Associated Newspapers Limited intervening) EWCOP 1361 (1 May 2014) – read judgment Sir James Munby, President of the Court of Protection has ruled that the Daily Mail has no...
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Video: Human rights debate at NYU London
On 28 April 2014 I debated Dr Lee Rotherham of the Taxpayers’ Alliance at NYU London. The motion was: This House believes the human rights agenda is promoting unfairness in the UK. I was against the...
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Eastenders in Supreme Court: A1P1 filling in the gaps
Barnes v. The Eastenders Group [2014] UKSC 26 read judgment Not Albert Square, but it could be. The Crown Prosecution Service suspect two individuals of a massive duty/VAT fraud in their cash and...
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Golf course judicial review case reversed on appeal
Cherkley Campaign Ltd, (R o.t.a ) v. Longshot Cherkley Court Ltd, Court of Appeal, 7 May 2014 read judgment The Court of Appeal has reversed the robustly expressed view of Haddon-Cave J (see my post...
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Seizure of worker’s wages breached Convention right – Strasbourg
Paulet v United Kingdom Paulet (application no. 6219/08) – read judgment The Strasbourg Court has declared, by five votes to one, that the UK authorities had acted unlawfully by seizing the wages of an...
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