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Ethics on the bench and in the witness box: The Round-up
Photo credit: Guardian This week’s round up comes from Alex Wessely. In the news A highly experienced magistrate – Richard Page – has been sacked for airing views opposing same-sex couples being...
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Stop and search controversy continues – the Round-up
Brought to you by Hannah Lynes In the news According to research released by the Home Office, large increases in stop and search operations have no discernible effect on crime reduction. The official...
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Human rights – a coat of many colours
“Roses are red. Violets are blue. Whatever your political colour; Human rights should matter to you” Some legal oratory flows into the profound, beautiful and inspiring. Most of the time when it comes...
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The round-up: Genocide, domestic violence and justice on holiday
In the news Radovan Karadžić, the former Bosnian Serb leader, has been sentenced to 40 years in jail for genocide and war crimes committed during the 1992-95 Balkans war, including the massacre of...
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Does Art 5 entail a right to legal representation when facing prison for...
Hammerton v. the United Kingdom, Application no. 6287/10 – read judgment. The European Court of Human Rights has held that the detention of an individual following his breach of a civil contact order,...
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Triumph for the rule of law in South Africa?
The leader of South Africa’s main opposition party, the Democratic Alliance, has called for President Zuma to be impeached following the Constitutional Court’s finding that he had flouted the...
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de Menezes: No individual prosecutions, but an effective investigation – ECtHR
This week, the mosaic shrine adorning the wall outside Stockwell underground station once again became the focal point for difficult questions surrounding the police response the terrorist attacks of...
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Upholding fundamental rights or ensuring accurate verdicts? The ECtHR and the...
Photo credit: The Guardian Seton v. the United Kingdom, Application no. 55287/10, 31 March 2016 – read judgment. The European Court of Human Rights (“ECtHR”) has held that the use of telephone...
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Human rights volunteering opportunity
I am looking for two new volunteers for RightsInfo – all details here and below. – We are currently in the process of expanding RightsInfo (more on that soon) and are looking for two new Project...
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South Africa’s President Zuma survives impeachment vote despite judgment...
Economic Freedom Fighters v Speaker of the National Assembly, President Jacob Zuma and Public Protector Case CCT 143/15; Democratic Alliance v Speaker of the National Assembly, President Jacob Zuma,...
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When prurient curiosity meets privacy
PJS v NEWS GROUP NEWSPAPERS LIMITED [2016] EWCA Civ 100 In an anonymised judgment dated 22nd January – but only recently published – the Court of Appeal underscored the importance of the right to...
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Equality claims and health regulators – Availability of JR does not oust...
Photo credit: Guardian Jeremy Hyam QC Michalak v The General Medical Council & Ors [2016] EWCA Civ 172: This important case deals with the remedies available to individuals who claim to have...
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The Round-up: Informing the electorate and the Prisons Inspectorate
In the News Last week marked the beginning of the ten-week run-in to the EU referendum. With it came the Government’s obligation to publish a statutory report informing the electorate of precisely what...
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Down the Rabbit Hole of Genetic Testing
Photo credit: Guardian “ After this there is no turning back. You take the blue pill: the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill: you stay...
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The “up for a three-way?” case: injunction set aside
PJS v. News Group Newspapers Ltd [2016] EWCA Civ 393 – read judgment Matthew Flinn posted here recently on an earlier decision in this case, PJS (22 January 2016), in which the Court of Appeal granted...
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Judge allows paternity test for DNA disease analysis
Spencer v Anderson (Paternity Testing) [2016] EWHC 851 (Fam) – read judgment A fascinating case in the Family Division throws up a number of facts that some may find surprising. One is that this is...
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Court of Protection orders continued reporting restrictions after death
In the matter of proceedings brought by Kings College NHS Foundation Trust concerning C (who died on 28 November 2015) v The Applicant and Associated Newspapers Ltd and others [2016] EWCOP21 – read...
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Extradition in “disarray”? – Amelia Nice
Aranyosi and Căldăraru [C-404/15 and C-659/15 PPU]. On 5 April 2016, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled that the execution of a European Arrest Warrant (‘EAW’) must be deferred if...
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Ex-pats challenge to the EU referendum voting rules
Schindler and MacLennan v. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs [2016] EWHC 957, Divisional Court 28 April 2016 – read judgment An...
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Hillsborough and Human Rights – The Round-up
Photo credit: The Guardian In the news The families of the 96 people who died at Hillsborough in 1989 have been vindicated at last, following a 27-year long fight for justice. An inquest jury has...
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