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Legal aid and ideology: the new basis for Government reform? – Angela Patrick
In a famous advert from the 80s, Maureen Lipman picked up the phone to caution her distraught grandson that he could never be a failure if he had an “ology”. It was perhaps in memory of that fine...
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Sparks fly in the Ukraine
Kirovogradoblenergo, Pat v Ukraine (Application no. 35088/07) 27 June 2013 – read judgment Shortly after the break up of the Soviet Union, the Ukraine introduced an interesting piece of legislation...
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Public interest environmental litigation in Strasbourg
Public Interest Environmental Litigation and the European Court of Human Rights: No love at first sight, by Riccardo Pavoni – read article Thanks to this link on the ECHR blog, a fascinating account...
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Bye Bye Abu Qatada, Secret Trials Are Here & A Legal Aid U-Turn – The Human...
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The Times on Abu Qatada
I have an opinion piece in today’s Times on Abu Qatada. It is behind a paywall so I can’t reproduce it here, but you can probably guess from the title what my theme is: Abu Qatada’s case shows the...
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Guerilla gardening in unlawfully occupied property did not give rise to...
Malik v Fassenfelt and others [2013] EWCA Civ 798 – read judgment A common law rule that the court had no jurisdiction to extend time to a trespasser could no longer stand against the Article 8...
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Convicted murderers win Article 3 case against whole life sentences in...
Vinter and Others v. the United Kingdom (Grand Chamber: application nos. 66069/09, 130/10 and 3896/10) – read judgment The Strasbourg Court has upheld three applicants’ complaint that their...
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Radical but risky changes afoot at the European Court of Human Rights –...
Radical changes are afoot in Strasbourg. Protocol No. 15, whose outlines were agreed at the Brighton Conference of 2012, is primed for ratification, while at the start of 2014, new Rules of Court will...
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So we cannot see Prince Charles’ advocacy letters after all
R (o.t.a Rob Evans) v. Attorney-General, Information Commissioner Interested Party, 9 July 2013 – read judgment As we all know, the Prince of Wales has his own opinions. And he has shared those...
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Damning indictment of police actions surrounding death of Azelle Rodney
On 5th July 2013, the report of the inquiry into the death of Azelle Rodney was published. Mr Rodney was a 24-year-old man who was shot dead by a Metropolitan Police officer on 30th April 2005. Mr...
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NOT AGAIN! ‘EU Judges’ Behind ‘Victory For Evil’, Says Sun
Updated – headline now corrected | Remember when The Sun was reprimanded by the Press Complaints Commission for muddling up the European Union and our local Court of Appeal in a story about a human...
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Sea fishing, quotas and A1P1: “no-one owns the sea”
The UK Association of Fish Producer Organisations v. Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Cranston J, 10 July 2013 read judgment Interesting alignment of parties in this...
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Part 82: The worrying new rules of the Secret Court – Angela Patrick
While MPs were dreaming of the imminent long summer break and a possible pay hike, in mid-June the Government produced the draft amendments to the Civil Procedure Rules (“CPR”) necessary to bring Part...
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Whole Life Tariffs, No Litvinenko Inquiry & Keeping Things Quiet – The Human...
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Home Office may detain illegal entrant who appears to be over 18
R (on the application of AA) (FC) (Appellant) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (Respondent) [2013] UKSC 49 - read judgment The Immigration Act 1971, Schedule 2, paragraph 16(2) (“paragraph...
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No witness immunity for the Forensic Science Service
Thomas James Smart v The Forensic Science Service Ltd [2013] EWCA Civ 783 – read judgment There was evidence in this case that employees of the Forensic Science Service had altered the exhibit numbers...
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Is complicity with the death penalty illegal? – Dr Bharat Malkani
In a previous blog post on these pages, the case of Lindsay Sandiford was examined. Sandiford – a British citizen facing the death penalty in Indonesia – had asked the UK Government for funding to help...
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Permission to amend after expiry of time limits – and an unfair hearing
Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government v San Vicente and Carden [2013] EWCA Civ 817, Court of Appeal, 18 June 2013 – read judgment There is a curious if not bizarre set of anomalies...
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UK court ducks position on circumcision
SS (Malaysia) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2013] EWCA Civ 888 - read judgment This case concerns a hitherto little-explored aspect of the right to a private and family life: a parent’s...
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Putting a ring on it, Constitutional Carnage and Court Transparency – The...
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