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Information even unlawfully obtained is admissible to the GMC – Joanna Glynn QC
R (on the application of Nakash) v Metropolitan Police Service and General Medical Council [2014] EWHC 3810 (Admin) – read judgment The High Court has ruled that although information obtained...
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Magna Carta and its progeny
Magna Carta Uncovered, Hart Publishing, October 2014 - details here Two old friends, Lord Judge (former Lord Chief Justice) and Anthony Arlidge QC have written a compelling and scholarly account of the...
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A spectacularly Misleading Case – nested in a real one
Islamic Investment Co v. Symphony Gems & Mehta, 19 November 2014, Hamblen J - judgment here Hamblen J observed that “the facts…are so extraordinary that they could have come from one of A.P....
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Naked rambler gets no help from European Court of Human Rights – Diarmuid Laffan
Gough v UK (Application no. 49327/11), 28 October 2014 – Read judgment The applicant in this case has been repeatedly arrested, convicted and imprisoned for breaching the peace by walking around naked...
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BUMPER EDITION: Libyan Rendition, Human Rights Week 2014 and the Naked...
Photo credit: Guardian.co.uk Welcome back to the UK Human Rights Roundup, your regular winter wonderland of human rights news and views. The full list of links can be found here. You can find previous...
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Inherently Uncertain: Is there authority for that? Questions over...
Photo credit: guardian.co.uk Over the last month Mr Justice Keehan has made a series of injunctions at the behest of Birmingham City Council designed to protect a vulnerable child in care from being...
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Why domestic Aarhus rules are not wide enough to comply with the Convention
Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government v. Venn, Court of Appeal, 27 November 2014 - read judgment Back to Aarhus and the constant problem we have in the UK making sure that the cost...
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Super Grieve strikes again: Tory human rights plans would be “devastating”...
Dominic Grieve QC was appointed as the Coalition Government’s Attorney General in May 2010. He remained in post until July 2014 when he was sacked. He said he would “happily” have stayed on, but the...
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Geoff Hoon sting case fails in Strasbourg
Hoon v. United Kingdom, 13 November 2014, ECtHR, read judgment Most people’s political memories are short, but we may recall Geoff Hoon’s exquisite discomfiture when he was duped by a journalist, and...
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Why Somali pirates got damages from Strasbourg
Ali Samatar and others v. France, 4 December 2014, ECtHR, Fifth Section, read judgment There is a good deal of froth about this case in the media, with little of it looking at what our pirates got...
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Couple launch challenge to heterosexual bar on Civil Partnerships
Photo credit: guardian.co.uk For some reason, this post originally appeared in the name of Colin Yeo. It is not by Colin Yeo, but by Martin Downs. Apologies for that. The future of civil partnerships...
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Cracking intercepts: the war on terror and difficulties with Human Rights
Liberty v Government Communications Headquarters ( IPT/13/77/H); Privacy International v FCO and others (IPT/13/92/CH); American Civil Liberties Union v Government Communications Headquarters...
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Restrictions on books in prisons declared unlawful by the High Court
R (on the application of Gordon-Jones) v Secretary of State for Justice and Governor of HM Prison Send [2014] EWHC 3997 (Admin) – read judgment Contrary to what some media reports would have us...
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Supreme Court finds third way between Strasbourg and House of Lords
R (Haney and others) v. Secretary of State for Justice, 10 December 2014 – read judgment Indeterminate sentences and the inadequate funding of rehabilitation during them has posed problems since...
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Cosmetics tested on animals banned in the EU – or are they?
R (on the application of the European Federation for Cosmetic Ingredients) v Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills and the Attorney General, British Union for the Abolition of...
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Time for human rights to get down to business? – Adam Smith-Anthony
Businesses, governments and civil society descended on Geneva last week for the 2014 UN Forum on Business and Human Rights, the largest global gathering in the business and human rights field. There...
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Judge orders blood transfusion for Jehovah’s Witness child
An NHS Trust v Child B and Mr and Mrs B [2014] EWHC 3486 (Fam) – read judgment I posted earlier this year a discussion of Ian McEwan’s pellucid and moving account of the difficulties encountered by...
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Jehovah’s Witnesses, and judicial review being a last resort
R (o.t.a WATCH TOWER BIBLE & TRACT SOCIETY OF BRITAIN) v CHARITY COMMISSION, 12 December 2014, Dove J, no transcript yet available, summary on Lawtel (£) Judicial review is an excellent and...
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Exceptional legal aid funding should not be limited to extreme cases – Court...
R (on the application of) Gudanaviciene and others v The Director of Legal Aid Casework and others [2014] EWCA Civ 1622 – read judgment The Court of Appeal has ruled that the Lord Chancellor’s Guidance...
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Employment Tribunal Fees: The evidential ‘hot potato’ to be heard by Court of...
Unison (No.2), R (on the application of) v The Lord Chancellor - read judgment [2014] EWHC 4198 (Admin) The Divisional Court (Lord Justice Elias and Mr Justice Foskett) has dismissed Unison’s...
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