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Consultation again – this time for dentists
British Dental Association v. General Dental Council [2014] UK EWHC 4311 (Admin) 56, Cranston J, 18 December 2014 - read judgment Philip Havers QC and Jeremy Hyam of 1COR were for the successful...
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EU judges oppose accession of EU to ECHR
Opinion of CJEU, 18 December 2014 – read Opinion Well, here’s a thing. The EU top court in Luxembourg has decided that it is somehow against the EU treaties for it to defer in specific instances to the...
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EU Court gives the go ahead on certain stem cells – Olivia Hart
International Stem Cell Corporation v Comptroller General of Patents [2014] EUECJ C-364-13, 18 December 2014 – read judgment This was a referral to the European Court of Justice (CJEU) requesting...
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Birmingham’s Grooming Injunctions: what does the judgment say?
Photo credit: guardian.co.uk Using the inherent jurisdiction against Child Sexual Exploitation: Birmingham City Council v Riaz & Ors, 15 December 2014, read judgment As prefigured on this Blog...
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Conscientious objection to abortion: Catholic midwives lose in Supreme Court
Greater Glasgow Health Board v. Doogan and Wood [2014] UKSC 68 – read judgment here. The Supreme Court recently handed down its judgment in an interesting and potentially controversial case concerning...
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UK Human Rights Blog – 2014 in review
WordPress.com, the blogging software we use to make the blog, prepared a 2014 annual report. We had almost a million hits and have crashed through the 2,000 post barrier since our launch in 2010....
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It is heartless not to assist people to die: Debbie Purdy
The multiple sclerosis sufferer Debbie Purdy died in the Marie Curie hospice in Bradford on December 23 2014. Having been denied her right to travel to Dignitas in Switzerland, which would have exposed...
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Why the Court is in Strasbourg – and other things
Like lots of things to do with the ECHR, the idea seems to have been British. As Simpson put it in his magnificent history of the Convention, Human Rights and the End of Empire (OUP, 2001), Our Man...
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How to make family hearings fair
Re K and H (Children: unrepresented father: cross-examination of child) [2015] EWFC 1, HHJ Bellamy – read judgment Philippa Whipple QC of 1 COR appeared for the Lord Chancellor in this case. She has...
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Monitoring of sex offenders by home visits does not breach human rights –...
M, R (on the application of) v Hampshire Constabulary and another (18 December 2014) [2014] EWCA Civ 1651 – read judgment The law governing the monitoring of sex offenders, allowing police officers to...
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We are not all Charlie Hebdo, but we are all afraid
Last night I tweeted that none of the UK newspapers has dared to show a single cartoon from the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine on today’s front pages. This has been retweeted over 1,500 times and...
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Paris attacks show need to scrap Human Rights Act, says Tory MP with no...
I will keep this short. David Davies MP (not David Davis MP) has posted on his official blog that the Paris attacks show that the Human Rights Act should be repealed. His reasoning is spurious. He does...
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Male circumcision can be part of “reasonable parenting”, but no form of FGM...
B and G (Children) (No.2) [2015] EWFC 3 – read judgment Contemplating the details of different forms of female genital mutilation is not for the faint hearted. But that is what the courts and the...
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Grime Rap ‘Gangbo’ appeal fails in High Court – Diarmuid Laffan
Photo credit: guardian.co.uk Chief Constable of the Greater Manchester Police v Scott Calder [2015] – judgment not yet available Adam Wagner represented Scott Calder in this case. He is not the writer...
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BBC News on anti-terrorism law and human rights
I took part in a debate on the BBC World News today on some of the anti-terrorism law proposals and the impact on human rights. We only covered one aspect of the raft of anti-terrorism laws which are...
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Nonagenarian unlawfully detained in care home for nearly two years
Essex County Council v RF and Others (deprivation of liberty and damages) [2015] EWCOP 1 – read judgment The Court of Protection has castigated the actions of a County Council in depriving an old...
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The Changing Face of the European Court of Human Rights: Public Lecture by...
Thursday 5 February 2015 marks the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta as well as the 50th anniversary of the School of Law at Queen Mary University of London. To commemorate both of these milestones, the...
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TTIP – more “foreign” judges criticising “our” laws?
Last week, on 15 January 2015, TTIP was debated in the House of Commons – see here. It is important for us all, but why? TTIP stands for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, a proposed...
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Introducing… the Human Rights Information Project
Some exciting news. I have a new project. The aim is to change the face of human rights. I am looking for a paid Researcher/Project Coordinator to help me build it. Interested? Click here for the job...
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Acquitted defendants costs regime not incompatible with ECHR
R (o.t.a Henderson) v. Secretary of State for Justice, Divisional Court, 27 January 2015 – judgment here The Court (Burnett LJ giving the sole judgment) has ruled on whether the statutory changes made...
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