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A few places left for Life, Liberty and Security this Monday
There are a few places remaining for 1 Crown Office Row’s high-level seminar this Monday 11 September. The event is aimed at solicitors and people associated with NGOs. We also have a limited number of...
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Aarhus costs cap challenge succeeds
RSPB, Friends of the Earth & Client Earth v. Secretary of State for Justice [2017] EWHC 2309 (Admin), 15 September 2017, Dove J – judgment here In my March 2017 post here, I explained that...
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Your inspiring Human Rights Act stories
On 2 October it is the 17th birthday of the Human Rights Act – it came into force on 2 October 2000. Rightsnfo is looking for inspiring stories of how people have used the Human Rights Act to publish...
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The biter bit – EU does NOT like being criticised by Aarhus body
ACCC Findings in ACCC/C/2008/32 Last week’s post concerned the judicial review costs system in environmental cases and its compliance with the prohibitively expensive rule Art.9(4) of the Aarhus...
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September Round Up: Strasbourg on employees’ emails, Brexit, and news on...
In the news this month: The Brexit Bill The Bill for the withdrawal from the European Union has been dominating the news over the past few weeks. Mark Elliott comments that it is ‘difficult to...
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A weed is a plant in the wrong place
... and pests are misplaced animals. We are all too familiar with the stories of mayhem caused by urban foxes released into the countryside, and the collapse in property value where Japanese knotweed...
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PKU boy to be treated with Kuvan after High Court ruling
You may remember the podcast discussion between me, Rosalind English, and David Hart QC earlier in the summer about the NHS decision not to fund the drug Kuvan for the amelioration of symptoms of a boy...
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Are surrogacy costs a legitimate claim?
XX v Whittington Hospital NHS Trust 2017 EWHC 2318 (QB) (18 September 2017) [HQ15C04535] Podcast about this case now downloadable Commercial surrogacy arrangements are considered to be against public...
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High Court rejects motor neurone sufferer’s application to overturn...
Conway, R (On the application of) v The Secretary of State for Justice [2017] EWHC 2447 (Admin) – read judgment This case concerns the issue of provision of assistance to a person with a serious...
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Supreme Court: state immunity rules incompatible with Article 6
Benkharbouche & Anor v Foreign & Commonwealth Office [2017] UKSC 62, 18 October 2017 – read judgment If you work for an embassy in London and are not a UK national, you cannot sue your...
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New podcast: Damages claim over IVF baby
ARB v IVF Hammersmith Ltd [2017] EWHC 2438 – read judgment The claim for over £1 million taken by a father against an IVF clinic for failing to notice that his signature on the consent form had been...
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Lucy Eastwood –“A law on the move: Are Local Authorities vicariously liable...
“The law of vicarious liability is on the move” proclaimed Lord Phillips in the last judgment he delivered as President of the Supreme Court: Various Claimants v Catholic Child Welfare Society [2012]...
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The future of human rights?
I am speaking at two events in the next couple of weeks, both of which will take a look at a question I have been thinking about quite a bit recently: “where next for human rights?”. Hope to see you...
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Public Law Podcast Seminar on Radicalisation Part 1: Civil Law and Closed...
1) Issues with Radicalisation cases and the civil law – Martin Downs The first episode from the Public Law Seminar given by members of 1 Crown Office Row is now available for podcast download here or...
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Public Law Podcast Seminar on Radicalisation Part 2: Inquests and Article 2 ECHR
Inquests and Article 2 ECHR – Caroline Cross and Suzanne Lambert The highlights of the Public Law Seminar given by members of 1 Crown Office Row are now available for podcast download here or from...
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Public Law Podcast Seminar on Radicalisation Part 3: Detention
Detention and the common European Asylum System – Alasdair Henderson and Suzanne Lambert The highlights of the Public Law Seminar given by members of 1 Crown Office Row are now available for podcast...
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“Genetic affinity” an actionable head of damage against IVF clinic
ABC v Thomson Medical Pte Ltd and others, Singapore Civil Court of Appeal [2017] SGCA 20 – read judgment It is a trite reflection that law should change with the times but every so often we see the...
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The second in Professor Catherine Barnard’s series on the legal milestones of the Brexit process is now up on iTunes and Audioboom. And today we have posted Isabel McArdle talking to Rosalind English...
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The Round up: Assange’s arrest warrant, victims of human traffickers, and a...
Eleanor Leydon brings us the latest developments in rights law. In The News: A Senior District Judge has ruled that upholding the warrant for Julian Assange’s arrest is both in the public interest and...
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Where are we now on social services liability?
CN and Anor v Pool Borough Council [2017] EWCA Civ 2185, 21 December 2017 – read judgment Just over six weeks before the Supreme Court ruled that the police owed the public a duty of care in Robinson...
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