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A Judicial Masterpiece? US Supreme Court rules on ‘gay cake’ case — Robert Ward
This week the US Supreme Court handed down judgment in Masterpiece Cakeshop et al v Colorado Civil Rights Commission et al. This is a decision which is of interest in the UK for its factual similarity...
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The “gay marriage” case that never was: Three thoughts on Coman, Part 2 –...
Michael Rhimes is the fourth référendaire to Judge Vajda at the Court of Justice of the European Union. He was not involved in the Coman case. This blog post is written in a purely personal capacity...
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New Podcast: Will AI outwit our laws?
In Episode 34 of Law Pod UK, Rosalind English talks to Professor Karen Yeung of Birmingham University about questions of civil liability of algorithm-run systems, the difficulties of regulating...
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Supreme Court rules on challenge to abortion ban in Northern Ireland
In the matter of an application by the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission for Judicial Review (Northern Ireland) [2018] UKSC 27 On 7th June 2018, the Supreme Court handed down judgment in the...
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Inquiries and Inquests seminar highlights now available on Law Pod UK
In Episode 35 Matthew Hill discusses the lessons and warnings from the Bloody Sunday inquiry and the Hillsborough inquest in a talk recorded at One Crown Office Row’s 2018 seminar. In Episode 36 ,...
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Home Office to pay damages for detention of immigrant claimant
R (on the application of Jollah) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2018] EWCA Civ 1260 – read judgment The Court of Appeal has upheld an award of damages for false imprisonment in the...
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Supreme Court rules on true employment status of a contractor in Pimlico...
Pimlico Plumbers Ltd & Anor v Smith [2018] UKSC 29 – read judgment The Supreme Court has unanimously dismissed Pimlico Plumbers Ltd’s appeal and upheld the Employment Tribunal’s ruling that the...
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Slamming the door on system failure in medical negligence inquests – Jeremy...
R (Parkinson) v. HM Senior Coroner for Kent and Others – read judgment If anyone had the lingering hope that the door to argue “system failure” in any but the most exceptional case of medical...
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Bars to the Bar: Diversity in the Legal Profession Before the Canadian...
On 15thJune 2018 the Canadian Supreme Court handed down two interesting and closely related judgments involving Trinity Western University: Law Society of British Columbia v Trinity Western University...
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The ‘straight civil partnership’ challenge: All you need to know before the...
The Supreme Court will hand down Judgment on Wednesday 27th June 2018 in R (on the application of Steinfeld and another) v Secretary of State for the International Development (in substitution for the...
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Law Pod UK latest on Brexit
Two years from the vote to leave the European Union, Catherine Barnard, Professor of EU Law at Cambridge, considers the rocks and hard places of the Brexit negotiations. She speculates on what is meant...
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Equality won’t wait – Supreme Court rules in Equal Civil Partnership
As predicted on this Blog, the Supreme Court has made a declaration of incompatibility covering sections one and three of the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (to the extent that they preclude a different...
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Round Up: detainees, Grenfell, and discrimination in UK pension law.
In the News: The Intelligence and Security Committee found that the UK had allowed terrorism suspects to be treated unlawfully. Following a three-year investigation, it published two reports examining...
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How much of a groundbreaking decision is the CJEU’s judgment for transgender...
IMB v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions ,26 June 2018 Weeks after ruling against certain sexual orientation tests for asylum seekers and finding that EU Member States must recognise the free...
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The Belhaj finale: Exclusion of closed material procedure means less scrutiny...
The rendition to Libya in 2004 of Mr Belhaj and his wife, Mrs Boudchar has given rise to a series of important cases in the domestic courts. In Belhaj and another v Straw and others) and Rahmatullah...
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The right to die – who decides?
In R. (on the application of Conway) v Secretary of State for Justice [2018] EWCA Civ 1431 the Court of Appeal held that the blanket ban on assisted suicide in the Suicide Act 1961 s.2(1) was a...
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New podcast from Law Pod UK
Emma-Louise Fenelon recently interviewed Richard Booth QC about a successful injunction application to prevent a gross misconduct disciplinary hearing. You can hear the interview on Episode 39 of Law...
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Subscribers to the UKHRB will have received an earlier version of our announcement of recent podcasts by Emma-Louise Fenelon. There was a mix-up in the episode numbers and links which has now been...
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Legal challenge to the Undercover Police Inquiry — will it succeed?
It was reported on Thursday, 5 July 2018, that three core participants in the Undercover Policing Inquiry are intending to launch a legal challenge against the Home Secretary’s decision not to...
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Supreme Court hearing on local authorities’ liability for child abuse
On 16thJuly 2018 the Supreme Court will begin to hear legal arguments on the appeal of the children against the judgment of the Court of Appeal in CN and Anor v Poole Borough Council [2017] EWCA Civ...
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