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Sensitisation to allergy is physical injury – Supreme Court
Dryden and Others v Johnson Matthey [2018] UKSC 18 – read judgment We are all made of stuff, and that stuff is not inert because it’s organic matter. Changes at the molecular level happen all the...
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Two New Podcasts: Private Hospital Liability
We have posted two new episodes of Law Pod UK today. Episodes 25 and 27 feature extracts from the seminar given by 1 Crown Office Row in February 2018 on the lessons learned from the Paterson...
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The ‘reasonable citizen’— Sergei Skripal
In Secretary of State for the Home Department v Sergei Skripal [2018] EWCOP 6, Mr Justice Williams made a best interests decision that blood samples could be taken by the Organisation for the...
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Round Up- Fried eggs, Facebook, and the right to choose one’s counsel
Conor Monighan brings us the latest updates in human rights law Credit: The Guardian In the News: The consultancy company Cambridge Analytica has come under fierce criticism for its treatment of...
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New Zealand’s Parliament to consider assisted dying – David Seymour
David Seymour is a New Zealand MP sponsoring a Bill in support of assisted dying. Our liberal history can be briefly sketched out in two stages. Establishing a bundle of rights and then expanding them...
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Violist wins against Royal Opera House for hearing loss
Goldscheider v The Royal Opera House [2018] EWHC 687 (QB) – read judgment The ROH has been found liable for failing to protect the hearing of its musicians and for causing acoustic shock to former...
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The Round-Up: Worboys Ruling Strikes a Blow to Parole Board Privacy, Criminal...
Image Credit: Guardian R (On the application of) DSD and NBV & Ors v The Parole Board of England and Wales & Ors & John Radford: in a landmark ruling, the High Court has quashed the Parole...
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Worboys’ release quashed — Jake Richards
On 28th March 2018 a three-judge panel of the Divisional Court gave its decision in R (DSD and Ors) v The Parole Board of England and Wales [2018] EWHC 694 (Admin), ruling that the Parole Board’s...
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Round Up- Do trained lawyers have a human right to represent themselves in...
Conor Monighan brings us the latest updates in human rights law The High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court are not sitting at present (Easter Term will begin on Tuesday 10th April). Accordingly,...
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The Round-Up: The Right to Be Forgotten
Image Credit: Guardian. NT 1 & NT 2 v Google LLC: A businessman has succeeded in a landmark ‘right to be forgotten’ action against Google, resulting in an order for the de-listing of search results...
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Can we build AI that doesn’t turn on us? Is it already too late?
A report from the UK House of Lords Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence has made a number of recommendations for the UK’s approach to the rise of algorithms. The report ‘AI in the UK: ready,...
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When does rehabilitation create a ‘right to be forgotten’?
In NT1 and NT2 v Google LLC, Mr Justice Warby considered whether Google should be required to ‘de-list’ links in its search results to articles about the spent historic convictions of two businessmen...
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Salvation outside the church? CJEU rules on religious discrimination in...
The Court of Justice of the European Union has issued its first major ruling on the reconciliation of the autonomy rights of religious organisations with the right of employees (or potential...
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Igniting the Green Revolution: some brain storming from environmental lawyers
Image Credit: Tobias Schreiner, PIEL UK On Friday 6th April, Public Interest Environmental Law (PIEL) UK hosted their 12th annual conference. The student-led association, which was founded in 2007, is...
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Headline- Round Up: Sir Cliff Richard’s case against the BBC reaches the High...
Conor Monighan brings us the latest updates in human rights law Credit: The Guardian In the News: The legal battle between Sir Cliff Richard and the BBC has begun in the High Court. In August 2014,...
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Legal personhood for non-human animals? The case of the Non-Human Rights...
This guest article argues that it is time to consider seriously the case for granting legal personhood to certain classes of sentient animals. Introduction This post is inspired by a larger project I...
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Musicians and hearing loss: New podcast
We posted previously about the case of Goldscheider v Royal Opera House. There was a lot of interesting material in the judgment, not all of it to do with the law, so we decided to invite a musician on...
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Liability of private hospitals seminar: two new podcasts
Recently the clinical negligence team at 1 Crown Office Row held a seminar debating the liability of private hospitals and clinics. In “Lessons learned from the Paterson litigation” two talks on the...
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The Round-Up: Snooper’s Charter, Coroner’s Cab-Rank Ruling, and Foul Play...
Image Credit: Guardian The National Council for Civil Liberties (Liberty), R (On the Application Of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department & Anor: Liberty’s challenge to Part 4 of the...
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Coroner defeated over controversial ‘cab-rank’ burial policy
R (1) Adath Yisroel Buriel Society (2) Ita Cymerman v HM Senior Coroner For Inner North London (Defendant) & Chief Coroner of England & Wales (Interested Party) [2018] EWHC 969 (Admin) The...
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