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The Monstering of Human Rights
On Friday 19 September I spoke at a very interesting conference at the University of Liverpool on Human Rights in the UK Media: Representation and Reality. My talk was entitled The Monstering of Human...
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The rule of law needs reaffirmation – Julinda Beqira and Lawrence Mcnamara
Over the next year the United Nations will discuss and adopt an agenda for global development for 2015 – 2030. It will set out the aims countries should strive to achieve in order to secure economic,...
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Legal Aid Challenge Success, Assisted Suicide and the Future of UK Human...
Welcome back to the UK Human Rights Roundup, your regular party gathering 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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Is this the best human rights correction ever? Or the worst?
Even by the usual brazen standards of human rights reporting, this correction from The Daily Mail stands out. Obviously, we weren’t meant to take Richard Littlejohn’s August 2014 comment piece...
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When does a righteous campaign shade into harassment?
Merlin Entertainments LPC, Chessington World of Adventures Operations and others v Peter Cave [2014] EWHC 3036 (QB) 25 September 2014 – read judgment This case explores the extent to which a...
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The remarkable shrinking backlog at the European Court of Human Rights –...
In recent years, a constant feature of debate about the future of the European Court of Human Rights has been the backlog of applications that threatens to engulf it. At its height, in September 2011,...
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Five things we learned from Cameron’s human rights announcement
There was some surprise at the lack of detail over human rights in Justice Secretary Chris Grayling and Home Secretary Theresa May’s speeches yesterday. Now, David Cameron has revealed all. Or at...
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“What’s in a name”? Privacy and anonymous speech on the Internet
Keynote speech by Lord Neuberger at 5 RB Conference on the Internet, 30 September 2014 The President of the Supreme Court has delivered a very interesting address on the protections that should be...
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Council’s decision to close elderly care home not unlawful
Karia, R (on the application of) v Leicester City Council (Sir Stephen Silber, acting as High Court Judge) [2014] EWHC 3105 (Admin) (30 September 2014)- read judgment In a robust judgment Sir Stephen...
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Will devolution scupper Conservative plans for a “British” Bill of Rights?
In his speech at yesterday’s Conservative Party conference, the Prime Minister confirmed that the party’s 2015 election manifesto will include a commitment to repeal the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA)...
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Journalists’ safety and the UN – Jessica Allen
Resolution A/HRC/27/L.7 on the Safety of Journalists by the UN Human Rights Council Another day, another dead journalist; or so seems to be the trend in the media profession following recent news of...
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Another Strasbourg judgment which Putin may wish to ignore – Scientologists win
Church of Scientology v. Russia, ECtHR, 2 October 2014 - read judgment Amidst all the current posturing about the Strasbourg Court and how we would like to ignore its judgments we don’t like in future,...
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The Fragility of Human Rights
The announcement this week of a new Conservative Party plan to repeal the Human Rights Act, ‘Protecting Human Rights in the UK’, has brought to a boil a cauldron of incredulity (pictured) about the...
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Strasbourg and why you must give reasons on domestic appeals
Hansen v. Norway, ECtHR, 2 October, read judgment In any system of appeals, there is always a tension between giving everyone a fair hearing and concentrating on the appeals which do stand a reasonable...
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The patentability of living things: the latest in the BRCA gene saga
D’Arcy v Myriad Genetics Inc [2014] FCAFC 115 (5 September 2014) - read judgment The recent ruling from the Full Federal Court of Australia allowing the breast cancer gene isolated in the laboratory to...
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Asbestos victims successfully challenge change in conditional fee/ATE costs...
Whitston (Asbestos Victims Support Victims Support Groups Forum UK) v Secretary of State for Justice and the Association of British Insurers (Interested Party) [2014] EWHC 3044 – read judgment Jeremy...
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The UK in the European Convention: fudge, or a shining example?
Brick Court Chambers Public Law Event 2014: Is it time for the common law to break free from Europe? Last night’s discussion at Gray’s Inn Hall featured a panel with Dominic Grieve QC MP (formerly...
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Consultation process not unfair after all, says Court of Appeal
United Company Rusal Plc (R, o.t.a of) v. London Metal Exchange Trust [2014] EWCA 1271 (Civ) - read judgment Deciding whether a given consultation process conducted prior to some administrative...
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Munchausen, MMR and mendacious “warrior mothers”
A Local Authority and M (By his litigation friend via the Official Solicitor) v E and A (Respondents) [2014] EWCOP 33 (11 August 2014) – read judgment It’s been an interesting week for the extreme...
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Tory Plans to Repeal the Human Rights Act: the Legal Community Responds – the...
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