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How mad must you be, not to be responsible for your actions?
Dunnage v. Randall & UK Insurance Ltd [2015] EWCA Civ 673, 2 July 2015 – read judgment This is an extraordinary case, and one which goes deep down into why the law of wrongs (or torts) makes people...
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TTIP news, and whether the UK should encourage big business to sue it
Quite a lot has happened in the 6 months since my post here on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). TTIP is a proposed trade agreement between the US and the EU, with negotiations...
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Scotland, Sewel, and the Human Rights Act
Photo credit: Guardian The Queen’s speech suggests a slowing of the Government’s plans to replace the Human Rights Act with a British Bill of Rights. But recent comments from the Scottish Human Rights...
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Divisional Court strikes down DRIPA communications data law
R (ota Davis et al) v. Secretary of State for Home Department [2015] EWHC 2092 – 17 July 2015 – read judgment When a domestic Act of Parliament is in conflict with EU law, EU law wins. And when a bit...
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The round-up – Books, Boycotts, and Gove’s Debut
Laura Profumo serves us the latest human rights happenings. In the News: Michael Gove appeared before the Justice Select Committee last Wednesday, in the first true baring of his political mettle as...
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Copying for private use: to be quashed with prospective or retrospective effect?
British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors and others, R(on the application of) v Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills and another [2015] EWHC 1723 (Admin) – read original...
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Scheme for Exceptional Case Funding not providing the required safety net
IS (by the Official Solicitor as Litigation Friend) v The Director of Legal Aid Casework and Anor [2015] EWHC 1965 (Admin) (15 July 2015) – read judgment Collins J has ruled that the Legal Aid...
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Strasbourg rejects right to die cases
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that the applications to the ECtHR in Nicklinson and Lamb v UK, cases concerning assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia, are inadmissible. This is the...
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Supreme Court: no-win-no-fee costs regime compatible with Article 6
Coventry v. Lawrence [2015] UKSC 50, 22 July 2015, read judgment here The pre-April 2013 Conditional Fee Agreement system, under which claimants could recover uplifts on their costs and their insurance...
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More bad news in the fight for a right to die
R (o.t.a A.M) v. General Medical Council [2015] EWHC 2096 (Admin) Read the full judgment here The High Court has rejected the argument made by “Martin”, a man with locked-in syndrome who is profoundly...
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‘Limbs in the Loch’ killer wins Article 8 claim
Beggs v Scottish Ministers [2015] CSOH 98, 21st July 2015 – read judgment The Court of Session’s first instance chamber – the Outer House – has held that the way in which the Scottish Prison Service...
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The Round Up: The right to die battle – last rites, or the long game?
Laura Profumo delivers the latest human rights happenings. In the News: Right to die campaigners have sustained yet another setback, following the judgment of R (AM) v General Medical Council last...
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The RightsInfo Summer Party
A quick note to say RightsInfo is having a summer party on 13 August. If you want an invite, sign up to the newsletter here, the invitations will be going out at midday today. It’s going to be great,...
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Justice Human Rights Conference, 12 October 2015
Here at the UK Human Rights Blog, we love justice, and we also love JUSTICE. Let’s all go to their annual conference, 12 October 2015. All details here and below. One of the highlights of the human...
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Sport, public/private law, and a judge waxing lyrical – Diarmuid Laffan
O’Connell & anor v the Turf Club [2015] IESC 57 – read judgment This recent judgment of the Irish Supreme Court addressed the issue of whether the decisions of a sport’s organising body should be...
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Round-up: Obama in Africa, and Supreme Court on solitary confinement
In the news: President Obama made a historic trip to Kenya this week, and called upon African states to abandon anti-gay discrimination (watch the full speech here). In a speech welcomed by Human...
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Supreme Court: a right to a student loan?
R (Tigere) v. Secretary of State for Business [2015] UKSC 57, 29 July 2015 read judgment here Ms Tigere is 20. She arrived in the UK from Zambia when she was 6. She did very well at school. In 2013,...
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When can the courts rule on the legality of future behaviour?
Kent & others v Arun District Council and others [2015] EWHC 2295 – read judgment This case concerned the application of the law in relation to future conduct, in particular, the role of the...
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The legal fog of war among the people
Serdar Mohammed and Others v Secretary of State for Defence [2015] EWCA Civ 843 – read judgment The Court of Appeal has held that UK armed forces breached both Afghan law and Article 5 of the ECHR by...
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On fairness and principle: the legacy of ZZ re-examined – Michael Rhimes
Kiani v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2015] EWCA Civ 776 (21 July 2015) – read judgment In my last post on UKHRB I commented on developments in UK, ECHR and EU jurisprudence relating to...
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