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Northern Ireland abortion refugees: Supreme Court
R (o.t.a A and B) v. Department of Health [2017] UKSC 41, 14 June 2017 – judgment here. Sometimes The Law comes to the rescue. And by this I do not mean constitutional law versus populism or the rule...
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Foreign criminals’ deportation scheme ruled unlawful
Image: Flickr.com R (Kiarie) v Secretary of State for the Home Department; R (Byndloss) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2017] UKSC 42 In a nutshell The Government’s flagship scheme to...
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Once more unto the breach…James Arrandale
The ClientEarth litigation on air pollution rolls into a new phase, six years after they first began proceedings. This post tells the story. On 31 May 2017, the environmental NGO ClientEarth...
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NI Abortion Refugees: further thoughts
R (o.t.a A and B) v. Department of Health [2017] UKSC 41, 14 June 2017 – judgment here; previous post here. Was it unlawful for the Secretary of State for Health, who had power to make provisions for...
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Strasbourg on excessive libel damages
Independent Newspapers (Ireland) Ltd v. Ireland ECtHR, 5th section, 15 June 2017 – read judgment here The Strasbourg Court has decided that an award of damages in an Irish libel case was...
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Charlie Gard: Strasbourg Court imposes another stay on Supreme Court ruling...
Yates v United Kingdom – here Following the Strasbourg Court’s request for interim measures for the UK – which means the hospital may not take Charlie Gard off life support as the Supreme Court has...
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Paid human rights internship – deadline Sunday 2 July
RightsInfo internship. This summer. London Living Wage. Deadline Sunday 2 July. Need I say more? All details here Keep posted with opportunities and human rights news by signing up hereFiled under:...
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International human rights can help reverse yet another heavy blow on sexual...
Koldo Casla of the Policy, Research and Training Manager of Just Fair @JustFairUK, an organisation that monitors and advocates economic and social rights in the UK Women’s sexual and reproductive...
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No bans on local authority disinvestment decisions
R (o.t.a. Palestine Solidarity Campaign Ltd and Jacqueline Lewis) v. Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government [2017] EWHC 1502 (Admin) 22 June 2017, Sir Ross Cranston – read judgment...
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Transgender father to appeal for greater contact with ultra orthodox children
J v B (Ultra-Orthodox Judaism: Transgender) [2017] EWFC 4 (30 January 2017) – read judgment The Court of Appeal has granted permission to the father to appeal against the decision of the High Court...
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The Round Up: End of the Charlie Gard case, Russian Homosexuality Laws, and...
IN THE NEWS The Strasbourg Court has ruled inadmissible the claims by Charlie Gard’s parents that the withdrawal of artificial ventilation from the severely ill child would breach their right to...
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1 COR Breakfast Briefing – Vulnerable Asylum Seekers: Recent Developments
Event: Join us for an Immigration law briefing over breakfast at 1 Crown Office Row, London. Short talks by the barristers covering some of the latest developments will be followed by an interactive...
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The role of employee legitimate expectations in unfair dismissal claims –...
A recent EAT ruling JP Morgan v Ktorza continues a line of decisions which limit the role of employee expectations in the determination of unfair dismissals claims further curtailing the extent to...
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Information law: when something is “on” an environmental measure
Department for Business, Energy and Industry Strategy v. Information Commissioner and Henney [2017] EWCA Civ 844 , 29 June 2017 – read judgment As many will know, there are two different systems of...
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The Round-Up – free abortions, no adoption for Sikh couple, and school...
Women from Northern Ireland who travel to the UK seeking abortions will now be able to access the procedure without charge on the NHS. See the Supreme Court decision on this, posted by Rosalind...
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1COR Launches New Podcast Series – Law Pod UK
1 Crown Office Row have launched a new regular podcast, Law Pod UK, with presenter Rosalind English, to discuss developments across all aspects of civil and public law in the UK. It comes from the...
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Whose womb is it anyway? NI Court shrinks from abortion law reform
The Attorney General for Northern Ireland and the Department of Justice (appellants) v The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (respondent) [2017] NICA 42 (29 June 2017) – read judgment Although...
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Implementation of ECHR judgments – have we reached a crisis point?- Lucy Moxham
In recent years direct challenges to the authority of the Court within a handful of member states have also become more explicit and vocal” and “the Convention system crumbles when one member state,...
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High Court allows UK government to continue exporting arms to Saudi Arabia
Campaign against Arms Trade, R(on the application of) v The Secretary of State for International Trade [2017] EWHC 1754 (Admin) – read judgment Angus McCullough QC acted as Special Advocate supporting...
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On first looking into the Brexit Bill
European Union (Withdrawal) Bill and Explanatory Notes The Great Repeal Bill has shrunk more prosaically into the EUWB, but its task is technically arduous. The easy bit is clause 1: the European...
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