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The new German social media law – a risk worth taking? An ‘extended look’ by...
The German Gesetz zur Verbesserung der Rechtsdurchsetzung in sozialen Netzwerken (Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz) (literally: Law on the improvement of law enforcement in social networks and known as...
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The right to be forgotten before the Courts again
NT 1 & Anor v Google LLC [2018] EWHC 261 (QB) (15 February 2018) – read judgment This was a Pre Trial Review of an application by the claimants to have details about an old criminal conviction and...
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Supreme Court awards damages against the police for failure to conduct an...
Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis v DSD and Anor [2018] UKSC 11 – Read Judgment In an important decision for UK human rights law, the Supreme Court confirmed on 21st February 2018 that the...
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Groundhog Day for air pollution breaches: Government loses again
R (ClientEarth No.3) v Secretary of State for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Garnham J, 21 February 2018, judgment here DEFRA has been found wanting again, in its latest attempt to address...
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Northern Ireland Court of Appeal to consider same-sex marriage challenge
The Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland will sit this week to consider an appeal against the refusal of the High Court to give recognition to the marriage of a gay man from Northern Ireland who had...
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Round Up: Worboys, air pollution, and Germany’s social media law
In the News: Credit: Garry Knight, Flickr Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis v DSD The Supreme Court ruled that the police have a positive obligation to conduct an effective investigation into...
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Ministry of Justice not liable for clinical negligence in prison
In Razumas v Ministry of Justice [2018] EHWC 215 a prisoner who had made a claim for clinical negligence against the Ministry of Justice, rather than against the specific health care provider, had his...
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Seriously sick child and distraught parents – where to draw the line
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust v Evans, James and Alfie Evans (a child by his guardian Cafcass Legal) [2018] EWHC 308 (Fam) – read judgment This was an application by the hospital for a...
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The right of appeal against refusal of a residence card: where are we up to?
One way for an immigrant to gain the right to be in the UK is by making an application under the Immigration Rules. But these applications are relatively expensive and the requirements have become...
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Police Anti-terrorism “Lead” calls for children to be protected from...
A speech by Mark Rowley (the outgoing Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police for Specialist Operations and National Lead for Counter Terrorism Policing) to Policy Exchange has been given the...
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Worboys and Ullah: Do UK Courts have to follow Strasbourg to the letter?
Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis v DSD and Anor [2018] UKSC 11 – read judgment Matthew Flinn covered this Supreme Court case in his excellent analysis here. I focus on one point of disagreement...
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The Round-Up: Deportation by Data Deals, Dubs, and a Step Towards...
Photo credit: Guardian In the News UK charity Migrants Rights Net have been granted permission to proceed with their challenge to the data-sharing agreement between the Home Office, the Department of...
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Women “groomed, pimped and trafficked” as teenagers not required to disclose...
Credit: Onjali Rauf from Making Herstory R (QSA and others) v Secretary of State for the Home Dept and Secretary of State for Justice [2018] EWHC 407 (Admin) – read judgment The High Court ruled on 2nd...
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Listen Up! New episode of Law Pod UK just posted
Our very own Commissioning Editor, Jonathan Metzer, is discussing with Rosalind English the right of appeal against refusal of a residence card under the EU immigration rules for family and extended...
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Demolitions in the West Bank highlight a deep inequality — Josh Newmark
Josh Newmark is a History and Politics graduate from Durham University and an incoming History MSc at the University of Edinburgh, currently teaching in Salamanca. He is part of the youth-led...
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The Round Up – Strikes, detainees, and was it a poison plot?
Conor Monighan brings us the latest updates in human rights law Photo credit: The Guardian In the News: Over 100 female detainees have gone on hunger strike at Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre....
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New episode of Law Pod UK
In our continuing reposts of Professor Catherine Barnard’s series on the legal steps to Brexit, we have reposted her episode on the Draft EU Withdrawal Agreement – the Brexit political agreement...
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Who is it that doesn’t like Mondays?
Moylett v Geldoff and Another (unreported) Chancery Division (Carr J) 14 March 2018 Music nerds may remember with fondness the great copyright wrangle involving Procul Harum and Bach. The focus of...
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The Round-Up: Government wins benefits cap appeal, the scope of employee...
Image credit: Guardian DA & Orss, R (On the Application Of) v The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions: The Court of Appeal by a 2:1 majority allowed the government’s appeal against a ruling...
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Immigration Detention: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back — Sophie Walker
New legislation significantly curtails accommodation provision for those seeking release from immigration detention. The likely result is more and more people being held in immigration detention. The...
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