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Cabinet Reshuffle, Legal Aid Residence Test and DRIP – the Human Rights Roundup
Welcome back to the UK Human Rights Roundup, your regular fracktastic frisson of human rights news and views. The full list of links can be found here. You can find previous roundups here. Links...
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School’s out? Peers ask Government to use summer holidays to reflect on...
Angela Patrick, Director of Human Rights Policy at JUSTICE provides a summary of the House of Lords debate on Government proposals to reform judicial review in Part 4 of the Criminal Justice and Courts...
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The Sun just keeps getting it wrong on human rights
With the May 2015 General Election looming, the battle for the future of human rights in the UK is hotting up. The Prime Minister has just sacked his long-standing Attorney General apparently because...
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The rise of the secret trial: Closed Material Procedures one year on –...
Last week Justice Secretary Chris Grayling reported on how often closed material proceedings (CMPs) have been sought under the Justice and Security Act 2013 (JSA), as he is required to do annually...
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Have the Tricycle Theatre broken the law by refusing to host the Jewish Film...
Updated | It emerged on Tuesday the Tricycle Theatre in Kilburn has refused to host the UK Jewish Film Festival (UKJFF) for the first time in eight years. The theatre told UKJFF that they must reject...
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Strasbourg’s €1.8bn award against Russia – and an arbitral award for $50 bn
Oao Neftyanay Kopaniya Yukos v Russia 31 July 2014 read this damages judgment and read violation judgment A good week, to say the least, for Mikhail Kordokovsky, recently released from a Russian...
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Legal privilege, Articles 6 and 8, and iniquity
JSC BTA Bank v. Ablyazov et al 8 August 2014, Popplewell J, read judgment What you say to your lawyers is truly confidential; no-one, not even a regulator or prosecutor can see it. This is protected...
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Another human rights zombie myth
Updated | Here is a good example of how human rights myths spread. In October 2013 the Daily Mail and other newspapers published some totally misleading and inaccurate figures about European Court of...
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The right outcome: Tricycle Theatre reverses UK Jewish Film Festival ban
As a brief update to my post from last week. The Tricycle Theatre and the UK Jewish Film Festival have settled their differences after an agreement was struck to end the theatre’s refusal to host the...
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Judicial Speeches, Gaza Boycotts and Social Media Crimes – the Human Rights...
Welcome back to the UK Human Rights Roundup, your regular sizzling summer show of human rights news and views. The full list of links can be found here. You can find previous roundups here. Links...
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No, The Sun, “Euro judges” do not “go against UK in 3 out of 5 cases”. More...
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, The Sun has got it badly wrong on human rights. Again. On 24 August 2014 Craig Woodhouse reported that “Euro judges go against UK in 3 out of 5 cases” (£)....
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Victim of trafficking can claim compensation despite illegal entry to UK
Hounga v Allen [2014] UKSC 47 – read judgment The Supreme Court has ruled that victims may in some circumstance recover damages from their traffickers. Overturning the judgment of the Court of Appeal...
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Badgers’ expectations dashed
R (o.t.a. Badger Trust) v. SoS for Environment and Rural Affairs, Kenneth Parker J, Admin Ct, 29 August 2014 read judgement This blog has covered the various twists and turns, both scientific and...
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State should pay for representation and witnesses in private child disputes
Q v Q ; Re B (a child) ; Re C (a child) [2014] EWFC 31 – 6 August 2014 – read judgment Public funding is not generally available for litigants in private-law children cases, and no expert can now be...
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Students without indefinite leave to remain are ineligible for student loans
R (on the application of Tigere) v Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills [2014] EWCA Civ 1216 (31 July 2014) - read judgment The United Kingdom was not in breach of the human rights...
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Three human rights events
A quick note to alert you to three events I am speaking at in the next few weeks which may be of interest to readers. I’m on a bit of a roadshow. 1. Do religious courts protect human rights? 16...
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A novelist enters the Family Division
In his prolific career, writer Ian McEwan has brought us into the minds of physicists, neurosurgeons, conductors, cultural and cold war spies and even stalkers. His most recent triumph is to have...
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Victims’ Rights, the EU Charter, and Passport Confiscation – the Human Rights...
Welcome back to the UK Human Rights Roundup, your regular (except for August) last night at the human rights Proms. The full list of links can be found here. You can find previous roundups here. Links...
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Law of armed conflict means that anti-detention provision in ECHR may be...
Hassan v. the United Kingdom (application no. 29750/09) ECHR 936 (16 September 2014) – read judgment This case concerned the capture of an Iraqi national, Tarek Hassan, by the British armed forces and...
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The Sun’s aggressive, then submissive, response to my complaint on its human...
The Sun have printed another correction today in relation to its misleading human rights reporting. The correction, on page 2, can be read online or to the right of this post. The correction was the...
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