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Changes to Policing, Consent, and Three Landmark Cases- the Round Up
Conor Monighan brings us the latest updates in human rights law In the News: Credit: Lorie Shaull Anti-racism protests, sparked by the death of George Floyd, continued across the world. This week much...
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EHRC reports on inclusive justice
Ten years after the Equality Act came into force, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) have published their findings and recommendations in a report entitled “Inclusive Justice: a system...
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Law Pod UK New Episode: IICSA Update and Abuse within Minority Religions
In Episode 116 Emma-Louise Fenelon speaks to Richard Scorer, Head of Abuse at Slater and Gordon, about progress of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse and in particular the investigation...
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Racism and the Rule of Law
Recent Black Lives Matter protests in London. Image: The Guardian “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends” said Martin Luther King in the context of...
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Machine Learning in Healthcare: Regulating Transparency
Close up of Asian women with hi tech digital technology screen over the eye. PHG, linked with Cambridge University, provides independent advice and evaluations of biomedical and digital innovations in...
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Suspension suffices for doctor’s online sexual misconduct
Yesterday’s judgment of Mr Justice Mostyn in GMC v Awan [2020] EWHC 1553 (Admin) illustrates the fact that the Court’s deference to the specialist Tribunal’s judgment on sanction continues to be...
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The Weekly Roundup: Workers’ Rights, Criminal Procedure, and Compulsory...
Photo: Wikimedia Commons In the news This week the UK government lowered the COVID-19 alert level from level 4 to level 3, with non-essential shops reopening for business on 15 June. July 4 will be...
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Scotland’s proposed new environmental watchdog – a rottweiler or a poodle?
The vigilant gaze of the European Commission will begin to turn away from UK when the post-Brexit transition period ends at the turn of the year. The Commission has used its powers as the ‘guardian of...
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Travel between England and Wales
This post is written in response to a comment by a reader, John Burton, of Rosalind English’s post on the latest in the Lockdown challenge launched by Simon Dolan in which Philip Havers QC has been...
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Systemic Racial Inequality: Windrush and the Bar on Law Pod UK with Martin...
It is now over a month since the death of George Floyd. The UK Human Rights Blog and Law Pod are committed to continuing the conversation about racism in the UK prompted by his death and the Black...
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Surrogacy and human rights — Anna Dannreuther
In Re X (Parental Order: Death of Intended Parent Prior to Birth) [2020] EWFC 39 the Family Court read down section 54 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 to enable a parental order to...
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The Round Up: Reports on Social Security and Domestic Abuse
In the News: Together with anti-racism protests sparked by the death of George Floyd, the coronavirus pandemic has continued to dominate the news. Two recently published reports have highlighted flaws...
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Capacity to consent to chemotherapy?
University Hospital and Warwickshire NHS Trust v K and another [2020] EWCOP 31 This case is a timely illustration of the unenviable task faced by judges, doctors and mental health professionals...
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US Supreme Court outlaws discrimination on basis of sexual orientation or...
It is just over five years since the landmark United States Supreme Court decision in the case of Obergefell v Hodges (26 June 2015), and just over fifty-one years since the Stonewall riots (28 June...
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Altruistic cell donation: Court of Protection
A NHS Foundation Trust v MC [2020] EWCOP 33 (23 June 2020) How to determine “best interests” in the case of an adult lacking capacity, where a proposed medical donation for the benefit of a close...
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Dunn v FCO — the opening skirmishes
In R (Dunn) v The Foreign Secretary and the Chief Constable of Northamptonshire [2020] EWHC 1620 (Admin) the Divisional Court dismissed two applications made in anticipation of the forthcoming rolled...
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Round Up 6.7.20 – A quiet week in the courts but not in the news…
Protesters in Hong Kong. Credit: The Guardian. It has been a quiet week in the courts from a human rights perspective. The Supreme Court gave judgment on a divorce case and a social security fraud,...
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Are “squalid” prison conditions and the response to the Covid-19 pandemic...
The Chief Inspector has described conditions at HMP Exeter (pictured) as “grim”. Image: Wikipedia The latest reports of HM Chief Inspector of Prisons and the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human...
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Supreme Court holds children’s hearings system is compatible with article 8
ABC v Principal Reporter and another In the matter of XY [2020] UKSC 26 The Supreme Court recently dismissed two appeals concerning the role and rights of siblings in children’s hearings in Scotland....
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Dentists and Covid-19
The spotlight during the pandemic has been on frontline workers in the medical profession. But if you think of it, the real hazards are to be found in the dentist’s surgery, where most interactions...
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