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Birth certificate cannot be retrospectively changed to reflect father’s...
JK, R(on the application of) v Secretary of State for Home Department and another [2015] EWHC 990 (Admin) 20 April 2015 – read judgment This case concerned the rights of transgender women, and their...
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Court of Session examines interplay between Article 8 and the Immigration Rules
Photo credit: Guardian This week we welcome to the Blog our new team of commentators on Scottish human rights issues – Fraser Simpson, David Scott and Thomas Raine. Khan v. The Advocate General for...
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“Pan troglodytes”, politics and other human rights proposals – the Weekly...
In the news: “If the Conservatives come back into power it’s revolution time”. These are the words of ex-Court of Appeal judge Sir Antony Hooper at a legal aid protest rally on Thursday, as he called...
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RightsInfo update – Launch film and more
RightsInfo (www.rightsinfo.org) has just had its first full week and I wanted to update you on how things are going. Have you seen our brand new launch film, This is RightsInfo? It has just been...
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Export of live animals for slaughter: European Court rules that animal...
Zuchtvieh-Export (Judgment) [2015] EUECJ C-4242/13 (23 April 2015) – read judgment Animal welfare groups and campaigners for humane farming have welcomed the latest ruling by the European Court of...
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Supreme Court: no excuses, UK must comply with EU air pollution law
R (ClientEarth) v Secretary of State for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Supreme Court, 29 April 2015, judgment here Bit of a history to this one, with 5 hearings so far. The short version is...
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Spiritual Injury voids Mayor’s Election
Erlam et al v. Rahman et al, Richard Mawrey QC, April 2015, judgment here The Guardian has reported that Lutfur Rahman, the former directly elected mayor of Tower Hamlets is “exploring the possibility”...
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Spiritual Influence and Human Rights at Sea: the Weekly Round-up – Hannah Lynes
Photo Credit: The Guardian In the news The drowning of several hundred migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean has dominated headlines in recent weeks, prompting a special meeting of the...
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A1P1 claims by photovoltaics get to the Court of Appeal
Department of Energy and Climate Change v. Breyer Group plc and others [2015] EWCA Civ 408, 28 April 2015 read judgment In 2011, DECC decided to change the rules about subsidies for photovoltaic...
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Will either major party protect human rights after the Election?
“Our aim is a straightforward one”, New Labour Party told us in October 1997 “[it is] to bring those rights home”. In 2000, the Human Rights Act came into force. For the first time, people in the UK...
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Local authorities and judicial review: they should not put their heads...
Midcounties Co-Operative Ltd v. Forest of Dean [2015] EWHC 1251 (Admin) 6 May 2015, Singh J, read judgment here Out of what some may think to be an everyday spat between the Co-Op (existing...
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Bank Mellat’s $4bn A1P1 claim gathers pace
Bank Mellat v HM Treasury [2015] EWHC 1258 (Comm), Flaux J, 6 May 2015, read judgment Two recent judgments underscoring the potential high cost of the UK getting it wrong in its dealing with businesses...
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The Round-up: A British Bill of Rights on the Horizon?
Photo Credit: The Telegraph In the news ‘The Conservative Party has won a majority and can implement its manifesto. The Human Rights Act will be scrapped,’ writes Colin Yeo for the Free Movement blog....
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Mother paraded as “intimidated martyr” to cheat gay couple of surrogacy...
H & S (Surrogacy Arrangement) EWFC 36, 30 April 2015 M, a fifteen month old girl, was born as the result of artificial or assisted conception and of a highly contested agreement between S (the...
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“We cannot go back”: debating the Human Rights Act – Eva Pils
On 24 March, The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London hosted a public debate on ‘The Human Rights Act: the Bill of Rights for the 21st Century?’ at Inner Temple. The panellists were Dr...
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The round-up: more righteous indignation about the Human Rights Act – in both...
In the news “We can be sure of one thing. A battle is coming.” The future of the Human Rights Act still dominates the news, and this quote comes from UKHRB’s Adam Wagner, who suggests five tactics to...
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Event: Debating the Constitution after the Election
I’m delighted to say that I will be giving the keynote address at the UK Constitutional Law Association‘s one-day conference at the University of Manchester on the subject of “Debating the Constitution...
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Letting public authorities lose: The dangers of repealing the Human Rights...
It’s time to tell the untold story of the Human Rights Act. With the post-election dust barely settled, the Human Rights Act is firmly in the Conservatives’ sights. Caught in the crosshairs is section...
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No duty of care to disclose to pregnant daughter father’s genetic disease –...
ABC v St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust and others [2015] EWHC 139, Nicol J – read judgment Philip Havers QC and Hannah Noyce, and Elizabeth-Anne Gumbel Q.C. and Henry Witcomb of Crown Office Row...
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Conscience and cake
Gareth Lee v. Ashers Baking Co Ltd, Colin McArthur and Karen McArthur [2015] NICty 2 – read judgment here. In a claim popularly dubbed the ‘gay cake’ case, which has attracted international attention,...
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