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Judicial review proceedings may not be terminated by the government – Court...
Ignaoua, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2013] EWCA Civ 1498 – read judgment A certificate issued by the Home Secretary under Section 2 C of the Special...
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Personal consultation with solicitor must be offered before terror...
Elosta v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis [2013] EWHC 3397 – Read Judgment The High Court has held that a person detained for questioning under the Terrorism Act 2000 is entitled to consult...
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Inquiry Impasse, Charter Confusion and Competition Time – The Human Rights...
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Islamic “marriage” ceremony at home declared invalid by Court of Protection
A Local Authority v SY [2013] EWHC 3485 COP (12 November 2013] – read judgment A judge in the Court of Protection has ruled that a man who had “exploited and took advantage” of a young woman for the...
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Strasbourg: defaming the dead, football and historical revisionism
Putistin v. Ukraine, ECtHR, 21 November 2013 read judgment An extraordinary story, with a twist, and an interesting decision by the Strasbourg Court that lack of respect for the honour and dignity of...
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Supreme Court upholds gay discrimination ruling in hotel case
Bull and another (Appellants) v Hall and another (Respondents) [2013] UKSC 73 (27 November 2013) - read judgment This appeal concerned the law on discrimination. Mr and Mrs Bull, the appellants, own a...
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The latest challenge to the badger cull extension
A new challenge was filed yesterday to the badger cull extension presently under way in the South West of England. An eight week extension to the Gloucestershire pilot cull was granted by Natural...
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Plebgate and costs budgets – The Sun off the hook for big bucks
Mitchell v. News Group Newspapers 27 November 2013, CA read judgment We all know the story about how Andrew Mitchell MP may, or may not, have tried to barge past policeman in Downing Street with the...
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South African Supreme Court orders police to investigate Zimbabwe torture...
National Commissioner of the South African Police Service v Southern African Human Rights Litigation Centre (485/2012) [2013] ZASCA 168 (27 November 2013) – read judgment. In what appears to be the...
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Welfare of child not a trump card against deportation
Zoumbas (Appellant) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (Respondent) On appeal from the Inner House of the Court of Session, [2012] CSIH 87 [2013] UKSC 74 – read judgment The Supreme Court...
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Equality, Christianity and Who Decides on Human Rights – the Human Rights...
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CJEU sets itself against secret “nod and a wink” justice
Fulmen & Mahmoudian v. Council of the European Union,28 November 2013, read judgment I posted last year on a decision by the General Court in Luxembourg, in which Fulmen successfully challenged...
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Lessons learned from the ‘Forced C-section’ case
Updated | Journalist Christopher Booker reported in Saturday’s Telegraph that an Italian woman was forced by Essex County Council social services to have a cesarean section, and then had her baby taken...
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“Imprecise” injunctions against Facebook unenforceable, says NI judge
J19 and Another v Facebook Ireland [2013] NIQB 113 – read judgment The High Court in Northern Ireland has chosen to depart from the “robust” Strasbourg approach to service providers and their liability...
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Human rights for homo sapiens’ closest relatives?
On Monday at 10.00 Eastern Time, the Nonhuman Rights Project filed suit in Fulton County Court in the state of New York on behalf of Tommy, a chimpanzee, who is being held captive in a cage in a shed...
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National Security trumps disclosure of Litvinenko secret documents, rules...
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs v Assistant Deputy Coroner for Inner North London [2013] EWHC 3724 (Admin) – read judgment 1 Crown Office Row’s Neil Garnham QC and Neil Sheldon...
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Christian care worker loses Sunday working discrimination appeal – Richard...
Mba v London Borough Of Merton [2013] EWCA Civ 1562 – Read judgment The Court of Appeal has dismissed the appeal of a Christian care worker against the decision of the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT)...
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Continued detention pending removal of failed asylum seeker on hunger strike...
IM (Nigeria) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2013] EWCA Civ 1561 (25 November 2013) – read judgement The Court of Appeal has ruled that the secretary of state for the Home Department had...
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Caesarean Escalation, Judges on Human Rights and Happy Birthday – the Human...
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Gay discrimination and Christian belief: Analysis of Bull v. Hall in the...
Bull v. Hall and Preddy [2013] UKSC 73 – read judgment here. The recent confirmation by the Supreme Court that it was unlawful discrimination for Christian hotel owners to refuse a double-bedded room...
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