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Access to environmental justice
On Monday 13 March, I went along to the latest Castle Debate, held in conjunction with the Environmental Law Foundation: see here for more of the same, all free debates, and fascinating topics for...
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Three Person IVF to begin in UK
A clinic in Newcastle upon Tyne has been granted the UK’s first licence to carry out a trial of “three person IVF” (Mitochondrial Replacement Therapy, or MRT). The fertility technique is intended to...
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Assisted suicide and the right to private life: the enduring repercussions of...
In the almost three years since the Supreme Court delivered its reasons in Nicklinson (in which a majority refused to issue a declaration that the blanket ban on assisted suicide in s 2(1) of the...
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Maggots, sewage, bats, butterflies and Brexit
Leigh Day and the Human Rights Lawyers Association hosted a full house on Wednesday 22 March when Claire McGregor and David Hart QC from 1 Crown Office Row joined Sarah Sackman from Francis Taylor...
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The Round-up: Harriet Harman and Liz Truss propose change in rape trials
The Labour MP Harriet Harman has proposed a change in the law that would prevent rape complainants from being cross-examined in court about their sexual history. Harman claims that the introduction of...
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Convention’s prohibition on discrimination may apply to pre-Human Rights Act...
Hand and Anor v George [2017] EWHC 533 (Ch) (17 March 2017) – read judgment The Adoption of Children Act 1926 s.5(2) had the effect that adopted children were not treated as “children” for the purposes...
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Is Strasbourg law the law of England and Wales?
R (o.t.a Minton Morrill Solicitors) v. The Lord Chancellor [2017] EWHC 612 (Admin) 24 March 2017, Kerr J – read judgment This exam-style question arose, in an attempt by solicitors to be paid by the...
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Judges once again avoid right to die issue
Conway, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for Justice [2017] EWHC 640 – read judgment Noel Douglas Conway, 67, is a victim of motor neurone disease. He has just been refused permission to...
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THE ROUND UP: victims of forced labour, assisted dying and the Hillsborough law
There’s a lot to cover this week, as the Round Up looks at (among other things) Strasbourg’s view on forced labour in Greece, the High Court’s latest decision on assisted dying, a mooted Hillsbrough...
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Immigration and Minimum Income Requirements – “significant hardship” caused,...
SS (Congo) v Entry Clearance Officer, Nairobi, [2017] UKSC 10 – read judgment. The Supreme Court has ruled that, in principle, the need for spouses or civil partners in the UK to have an annual...
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Rosie Slowe: Article 50 Notice and Implied Conditionality
More substantive than the 137 word EU (Notification of Withdrawal) Act 2017 (‘Notification Act’), which was passed by Parliament on 13 March, the Prime Minister’s 6 page letter of notice, issued under...
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Scottish law on sexual offences incompatible with human rights
AB (Appellant) v Her Majesty’s Advocate (Respondent) (Scotland) [2017] UKSC 25 – read judgment This week the Supreme Court ruled handed down its judgment on the legality of section 39(2)(a)(i) of the...
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Do you enjoy writing about rights?
RightsInfo, the UK Human Rights Blog’s sister site, is looking for new volunteer writers. Do you have a passion for human rights and can you write about law for a lay audience? If so, please apply! All...
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The Round-Up – chemical weapons and Supreme Court judgments
Chemical attacks in the northern Syrian province of Idlib have left at least 80 dead and 100 more injured. It has been reported that in a raid last Tuesday morning Syrian government planes exposed...
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Right to die case allowed to proceed
Conway, R(on the application of) v The Secretary of State for Justice[2017] EWCA Civ 275 The Court of Appeal has overturned the refusal of the Divisional Court to allow a motor neurone disease...
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The Round-Up: Legal Aid for prisoners in the Court of Appeal
The Court of Appeal last week partially granted an application for judicial review of the cuts to Legal Aid in certain categories of prison law. The judgment may change the face of legal representation...
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The Round Up: Immigration Appeals, Vaginal Mesh, and Farage and Defamation
IN THE NEWS THIS WEEK With election fever well and truly afflicting the exhausted electorate again, Gina Miller, of Article 50 fame, has launched a tactical voting initiative to back candidates who...
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The Round-Up – Council of Europe shows no confidence in Turkey… or its own...
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has voted to reopen its monitoring of Turkey on account of its “serious concerns” regarding respect for human rights, democracy and the rule...
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The right to put your past behind you: Court of Appeal Art.8 ruling
R (o.t.a P & others) v. Secretary of State for Home Department & others [2017] EWCA Civ 321, Court of Appeal, 3 May 2017 – read judgment The Court of Appeal has upheld challenges to the system...
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Convention Rights page updated
We have finished an overhaul of the Convention rights pages to reflect recent political and legal developments since they were last reviewed. The most important of these is the vote to leave the...
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