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Round Up 3.8.20 – Sentencing in the criminal courts becomes the focus of...
British SAS soldiers in Helmand province, Afghanistan. Credit: The Guardian The final week of the legal term was set against the backdrop of new restrictions on the ability of different households to...
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BAME representation at the bar
A barrister must belong to one of the four Inns of Court in order to practise. After the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May, we published on this blog a short statement and an in-depth...
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Government Scraps Immigration “Streaming Tool” before Judicial Review
In response to a legal challenge brought by the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI), the Home Office has scrapped an algorithm used for sorting visa applications. Represented by...
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The Round Up: CPS performance statistics and rumours of prosecution “targets”
In the News: On 30 July 2020, the Crown Prosecution Service published its performance statistics on sexual violence cases for the year 2019-20, which vindicate long-held concerns about the “damning”...
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Face masks in Strasbourg
Tribunal Administrative de Strasbourg, N°2003058 M. A. et autres M. Simon, Juge des référés Ordonnance du 25 mai 2020 This judgment was handed down over two months ago but its relevance to the...
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Disclosure of information to GP: not “data” under GDPR
Scott v LGBT Foundation [2020] EWHC 483 (QB) The High Court has struck out a claim that the disclosure of certain personal information made by a charity to the claimant’s GP was unlawful. Although...
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Facial Recognition Technology not “In Accordance with Law”
R (on the application of Edward Bridges) v Chief Constable of South Wales Police (Respondent)and Secretary of State for the Home Department and the Information Commissioner, the Surveillance Camera...
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The Weekly Round-up: A-level Results, Facial Recognition, and Special...
Photo: Pixabay In the news This week has been awash with controversy over an unexpectedly harsh set of A-level results, with GCSEs set to follow this Thursday. Because students could not sit exams...
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Public Inquiries and Survivors: an in-depth look at the JR challenge to the...
Manchester Arena. Image: Wikipedia A recent decision of the High Court concerning the Manchester Arena Inquiry highlights an interesting question about public inquiries, the role of survivors and the...
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ECtHR on state responsibility for the right to life: the pardoning of an...
An Armenian protester holds pictures of Ramil Safarov, left, and Gurgen Margaryan during a demonstration outside the Hungarian embassy in Nicosia, Cyprus, in 2012. Photograph: Petros Karadjias/AP...
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Challenge to legality of lockdown succeeds in New Zealand
Andrew Borrowdale v Director-General of Health (First Respondent), the Attorney General (Second Respondent) and the New Zealand Law Society (Intervener) CIV-2020-485-194 [2020] NZHC 2090 Even in...
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International Human Rights, Public Interest Immunity, and Brook House – The...
Conor Monighan brings us the latest updates in human rights law In the News: Internationally there were a number of developments which have significant consequences for human rights. In Russia a...
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Alexei Navalny evacuated to Germany: European Court of Human Rights orders...
Alexei Navalny, in an isolation pod, being lifted out of an air ambulance in Berlin. Photograph: Michael Kappeler/AP. Source: The Guardian On Saturday morning, Russian opposition politician and...
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Force feeding not in anorexia patient’s best interests
Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust v AB [2020] EWCOP 40 In this carefully nuanced judgment, the Court of Protection has ruled that although a patient with a chronic eating disorder would...
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Round Up 31.08.20 – Few new judgments, but still some controversy…
Image: Screenshot of the Home Office’s twitter feed (now deleted). It was not an overly exerting bank holiday weekend for the author of this week’s round-up. The influence of the summer holiday...
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Law Pod UK is back! With Joshua Rozenberg
After a summer hiatus, Law Pod UK returns with an interview with Joshua Rozenberg who will be well known to listeners as a legal commentator, journalist, and presenter of the BBC’s Law in Action. In...
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Myanmar’s Compliance with the ICJ Provisional Measures Order & the Road Ahead
In this article, Prachiti Venkatraman and Ashley Jordana of Global Rights Compliance analyse the case before the International Court of Justice relating to the persecution of the Rohingya people by...
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The last Novichok poisoning: Law Pod UK
The Russian political dissident Alexei Navalny is still in an induced coma in a hospital in Berlin after being poisoned with the nerve agent Novichok on a flight from Siberia to Moscow on the 20th of...
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Minimum requirements under article 3 for rape investigation; €7,000 awarded...
This article was originally published on Serjeants’ Inn Chambers UK Police Law Blog. They have kindly given us permission to repost it here. In Y v Bulgaria [2020] ECHR 163, the European Court of...
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The Right to Privacy, Surveillance-by-Software and the “Home-Workplace” –...
This article was first published on the UK Labour Law Blog ( @labour_blog). We repost it with the kind permission of Dr Philippa Collins (@DrPMCollins at Exeter University) and the editors of the...
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