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New LawPod UK Episode: A Duty To Offer Alternatives? With John Whitting QC
In Episode 165 John Whitting QC speaks to Emma-Louise Fenelon about informed consent. The episode discusses the following cases: Montgomery -v- Lanarkshire Health Board [2015] 1 AC 1430 Duce v...
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Law Pod UK Latest Episode: Wendy Joseph QC
“Every day in the UK lives are suddenly, brutally, wickedly taken away. Victims are shot or stabbed. Less often they are strangled or suffocated or beaten to death. Rarely they are poisoned, pushed...
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The Weekly Round-up: social care spending, Stafford statements and Ukraine’s...
In the news: The recent Health and Care Act 2022 has come under scrutiny for introducing a cap on social care spending. From October 2023, the government will introduce a cap of £86,000 on the amount...
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Article 2 inquest determination concerning Community Mental Health Services...
In R (Patton) v HM Assistant Coroner for Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire [2022] EWHC 1377 (Admin), Mrs Justice Hill quashed a ruling that the Article 2 general (or systemic) duty has not been...
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The Weekly Round-up: Rwanda flight, Julian Assange, and asylum tagging
Source of photograph: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-61806383 In the news The first flight attempting to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda has been cancelled at the last minute following a ECtHR ruling...
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New commissioning editors
After almost five really enjoyable years as commissioning editor of the UK Human Rights Blog, I will be stepping back from that role and joining the Blog’s editorial board. I am delighted to announce...
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The Weekly Round-up: the Bill of Rights, Roe v Wade and the Investigatory...
In the news: On Wednesday, a new Bill of Rights was introduced to Parliament. While the Government claims that the Bill ‘will strengthen traditional UK rights’ which are ‘under attack’ from ‘stifling...
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High Court gives guidance on scope of article 2 inquests
In R (Gorani) v HM Assistant Coroner for Inner West London [2022] EWHC1593 (QB), a Divisional Court comprising Macur LJ and Garnham J rejected on all grounds a wide-ranging challenge to the conduct of...
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Non-Binary Passports: R (on the application of Elan-Cane) (Appellant) v...
Background The Appellant in R (on the application of Elan-Cane) (Appellant) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (Respondent) [2021] UKSC 56 was assigned female at birth, however during and...
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The Weekly Round up: planned new Bill of Rights; fall in the success rate of...
Criticism of the planned British bill of rights has been gathering momentum. Free speech campaigners have argued that it will undermine freedom of expression rather than support it. Labour’s shadow...
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Breaxit: Cereals, food standards and child obesity
Kellogg Marketing and Sales Company (UK) Ltd & Anor, R(On the application Of) v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care EWHC 1710, 4 July 2022 UKHRB followers of a certain age may remember...
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What the Princess of Pop teaches us about Capacity – Belinda Cheney
I was gripped by the Britney Spears saga. This phenomenally successful pop star was deemed to lack capacity in relation to most aspects of her life and finances for more than 13 years allowing her...
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Law Pod UK latest: The 2022 Bill of Rights
With the current turmoil in Westminster, attention to the government’s proposed Bill of Rights Bill has temporarily fallen away. But whatever the leadership contest throws up, the debate still rages:...
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The Weekly Round-up: PM resigns, Criminal Bar strikes, and no diplomatic...
Source of photograph: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-61866343 In the news The biggest story filling the headlines this week was that Boris Johnson has resigned as leader of the Conservative Party...
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No diplomatic immunity for actions grounded in modern slavery allegations
Basfar v Wong [2022] UKSC 20 Judgment here, links to hearings here. The landmark decision handed down on 6 July 2022 by a majority of 3 to 2 in the Supreme Court held that a serving diplomat does not...
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Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act can be “read down” to accord with...
Jennings v Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority [2022] EWHC (Fam) (22 June 2022) This poignant case tells a sad story, but an instructive one in terms of human rights and the ability of courts...
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The Weekly Round-up: Supreme Court to rule on indyref2, pandemic WhatsApps,...
In the news The UK Government has urged Supreme Court justices not to hear the Scottish government’s request for a ruling as to whether it has the power to hold ‘indyref2’ (a proposed second Scottish...
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The Weekly Round-up: Northern Ireland Protocol, public Parole Board hearings,...
Photograph: Charles Bronson In the news Last week, the EU launched new legal action against the UK over the Northern Ireland protocol. The four new claims, which concern a failure to apply the customs...
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Vardy 0 – 1 Rooney: Wagatha Christie solved at last
The judgment in Vardy v Rooney [2022] EWHC 2017 can be found HERE. The case was a game of two other halves – Coleen Rooney, wife of Wayne, and Rebekah Vardy, wife of Jamie. Steyn J’s judgment left...
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Discrimination and Freedom of Belief in the Sex and Gender Debate
We do not usually cover first-instance employment tribunal judgments on this blog, but two cases handed down in the last three weeks – Forstater v. CGD Europe and Bailey v. Stonewall Equality Ltd and...
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