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The Round-up: Controversy over the Courts Charge and Serdar Mohammed
Photo credit: The Guardian In the news The Howard League for Penal Reform has called for a review of the “unfair and unrealistic” Criminal Courts Charge, which “ penalises the poor and encourages the...
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The European Court of Human Rights Uncovered
I am are delighted to announce the launch of RightsInfo’s new infographic project: The European Court of Human Rights Uncovered: What it does, who it protects, why it matters If you care about...
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The Round-Up: Janner’s debut, and the plight of relying on Dignitas.
Laura Profumo serves us the latest human rights happenings. In the news: Lurid show-trial of a vulnerable man, the timely vindication of justice being done, and being seen to be done, a CPS volte-face....
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GTMO hunger strike and DWP make-believe
Photo credit: Guardian Alex Wessely brings you the latest Round-up. In the news Guantanamo Bay was back in the headlines this week, after the Obama administration responded to a legal request to free a...
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Emily Thornberry MP – Human rights conventions: when some are more equal than...
When a legal challenge to one of the coalition Government’s flagship welfare reforms – an overall cap of £26,000 per year on the amount any family could receive in benefits – was reviewed by the...
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Does Article 5 apply to extended sentences?
Photo credit: The Guardian Brown v Parole Board for Scotland, [2015] CSIH 59 – read judgment Scotland’s civil appeal court, the Inner House of the Court of Session, has refused a prisoner’s appeal for...
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Adam Wagner shortlisted for prestigious human rights award
A hand of applause for our Chief Ed Adam Wagner who’s just been shortlisted for the 2015 Liberty Human Rights Lawyer of the Year Award in recognition of his innovative efforts to bring human rights to...
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ISIL child brides: a big care problem for the Family Court?
London Borough Tower of Hamlets v B [2015] EWHC 2491 (Fam) 21 August 2015 – read judgment When a judge waxes lyrical about a child, garlanded with starred GCSEs, their intelligence, their medical...
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Passports at the junction of international and domestic law – Richard Alton
Western governments are increasingly concerned to establish that they have the power to prevent individuals from traveling to the Middle East to engage in terrorism-related activity (see Rosalind...
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Immigration proposals under scrutiny – the Round-up
Photo Credit: The Guardian In the news Immigration Minister James Brokenshire has announced proposals to make Britain “tougher on those with no right to be here’. The new measures are to be included in...
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Controversial named person scheme upheld by the Court of Session
The Christian Institute (and others) v Scottish Ministers [2015] CSIH 64, 3rd September 2015 – read judgment The Court of Session’s appeal chamber – the Inner House – has unanimously rejected...
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Woman’s wish to donate unwanted embryos to scientific research rejected by...
Parrillo v Italy (application no. 46470/11) Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights, [2015] ECHR 755 (27 August 2015) – read judgment The Grand Chamber of the Strasbourg Court has ruled...
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Donate a billable hour for refugees. Go on.
Have you seen 11KBW’s Sean Jones’ brilliant (and extremely successful) “Billable Hour” appeal? He has already exceeded his target by about a million percent but the target was pretty modest so please...
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“Widespread incompetence” of fertility regulator and clinics lamented by...
A and others (In the matter of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008) – read judgment This case is best summed up in Sir James Munby’s own words: This judgment relates to a number of cases...
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Drones, double speak and lethal drugs: the Round up – Charlotte Bellamy
In the news Comparisons to Orwell’s dystopia have inevitably been drawn with the drone strikes recently carried out by the UK in Syria that killed two British IS fighters, Reyaad Khan and Ruhul Amin....
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The importance of privacy in ancillary relief proceedings – High Court
DL v SL [2015] EWHC 2621 (Fam) 27 July 2015 (Mostyn J) – read judgment This was a simple, if contentious, divorce case in which the judge took the opportunity to make a point about balancing the...
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A vegan in charge of agriculture? Herod at the nursery gates!
Well, not exactly. But the outrage attending Jeremy Corbyn’s appointment of animal welfare campaigner Kerry McCarthy to the shadow DEFRA post betrays a level of panic which defies logic. What is wrong...
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Injunction and damages in libel case awarded against anonymous website
Brett Wilson LLP v Person(s) Unknown, Responsible for the Operation of the Website solicitorsfromhell.co.uk, 7 September (Warby J) [2015] EWHC 2628 (QB) – read judgment This was a claim in libel by a...
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A Clash of Rights – Does the ECHR apply in Syria?
Does the current jurisprudence on Article 1 of the ECHR create potential human rights problems in the Syrian conflict? Reports of two British citizens killed by RAF drone strikes in Syria last week...
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No one has the right to expect the State to make them better parents – Sarah...
Kent County Council v G & others [2005] UKHL 68 involved an appeal by a local authority on a matter of principle. In the course of care proceedings, they had been compelled to pay about £200,000 to...
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