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Saudi execution of political prisoners sparks protest – the Round-up
The first round=up of 2016 is brought to you by Hannah Lynes. In the news The interior ministry of Saudi Arabia has confirmed this week that it has executed 47 people in a single day. Included among...
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Court of Appeal: immigration age assessments and Merton
Two recent Court of Appeal cases, heard together, have considered the legality of the immigration detention of those who are, or possibly are, minors. Such cases involve local authority age...
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Jeremy Hyam: Mere negligence may breach Art 2 in NHS hospital cases
In the Chamber Judgment (currently available only in French) in the case of Lopes de Sousa Fernandes v. Portugal (App. No. 56080/13) decided just before Christmas, the European Court of Human Rights...
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Surveillance of Internet usage in the workplace
Social Media button on a keyboard with speech bubbles. Barbulescu v Romania, 12 January 2016 – read judgment In December 2015, the European Court of Human Rights, by 6 votes to 1, dismissed a Romanian...
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The Round-Up: Human Rights and the Trade Union Bill
Charlotte Bellamy contemplates the latest human rights happenings Until recently the Tolpuddle Martyrs peered down from a banner in Westminster Hall in an exhibition celebrating the journey of...
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Stop Powers under the Terrorism Act 2000 incompatible with Article 10
David Miranda -v- Secretary of State for the Home Department [2016] EWCA Civ 6 – read judgment. On Tuesday the Court of Appeal handed down its judgment on David Miranda’s detention under the Terrorism...
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UK Government tells High Court: Same-sex couples may be shut out of Article 14
Special Guest Post by Professor Robert Wintemute On 19-20 January, the England and Wales High Court (Mrs. Justice Andrews) heard the judicial review of the ban on different-sex civil partnerships...
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Court of Session: Murderer’s prison conditions fair
Hands v Scottish Ministers [2016] CSOH 9, 15th January 2016 – read judgment The Outer House of the Court of Session has refused a petition for judicial review brought by a convicted murderer against...
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Litvinenko – When real life is more fantastic than fiction
Neil Garnham QC (now Mr Justice Garnham) and Robert Wastell of 1COR acted for the Secretary of State for the Home Department at the Litvinenko Inquiry. David Evans QC and Alasdair Henderson acted for...
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Visa scheme exposes workers to abuse -the Round-up
In the news Domestic worker visas are leaving women vulnerable to conditions of abuse that amount to modern slavery, according to an independent review commissioned by the Home Office. The current...
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An open or shut case?
Lady Hale, who delivered the court’s judgment (Photo: Guardian) R(C) v. Secretary of State for Justice [2016] UKSC 2 – read judgment. When is it right to keep the names of parties to litigation a...
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Heterosexual Civil Partnership Refusal Not A Human Rights Breach
Photo credit: BBC News Steinfeld & Anor v The Secretary of State for Education [2016] EWHC 128 (Admin) – Read judgment The High Court has ruled in the case of Steinfeld and Keidan v Secretary of...
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Call for Submissions: The Young Human Rights Lawyer Journal
The Young Lawyers’ Committee of the Human Rights Lawyers Association is calling for submission for the 2016 Edition of The Young Human Rights Lawyer Journal. The first edition of the The Young Human...
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Bedroom tax challenge success
Photo credit: Guardian The Court of Appeal has given its judgment in a conjoined appeal of two of the latest challenges to the bedroom tax/removal of spare room subsidy (delete as you see fit), holding...
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Examination of child witnesses not in violation of Article 6
Mark William Patrick MacLennan v Her Majesty’s Advocate, [2015] HCJAC 128 – Read judgment The High Court has refused an appeal under Article 6 on the lack of effective cross-examination of child...
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The Rule of Law and Parliament: Never the Twain Shall Meet? Brian Chang
Vintage Balance Scale In “The Ballad of East and West”, Rudyard Kipling memorably wrote East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great...
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Is the European Court of Human Rights buckling under Westminister pressure?
In 2006 David Cameron said the HRA ‘has stopped us responding properly in terms of terrorism, particularly in terms of deporting those who may do us harm in this country’. In 2014 his party published...
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The round-up: Gove’s Gloss and the Assange Saga
In the News The UN working group on arbitrary detention have concluded that the Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been “arbitrarily detained” by Britain and Sweden in the Ecuadorian Embassy for...
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Cavalier with our Constitution: a Charter too far.
Photo credit: Guardian Marina Wheeler Last week Donald Tusk, President of the European Council, tabled a set of proposals which the government hopes will form the basis of the UK’s renegotiated...
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Press restrictions may continue after trial in the interests of national...
Photo credit: Guardian HH Keith Hollis discusses the Judgment of the Court of Appeal in Guardian News and Media Ltd v R & Erol Incedal Terrorism has brought many changes in the ways in which we...
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