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Climate change human rights violations found against Australia in Torres...
On 22 September 2022, the UN Human Rights Committee found that the Australian Government had violated the human rights of various Torres Strait islanders through climate change inaction. The rights in...
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Mortier v. Belgium: A Landmark Decision on Euthanasia in the Case of Mental...
In this guest post, Dr Ilaria Bertini, Research Fellow at Bios Centre, examines the recent decision of a Chamber of the Third Section of the European Court of Human Rights in Mortier v. Belgium, which...
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Weekly Round-up: judicial racism, Met misconduct, and a new PM
Image Credits: The Guardian In the news: Rishi Sunak has formally been appointed the new UK prime minister, following Lizz Truss’ resignation on Thursday 20 October 2022. He is the youngest prime...
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The Weekly Round-up: Kay’s Law, emotional AI, and injunctions
Image Credits: The Guardian In the news: Dominic Raab has returned to the role of Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor. Brandon Lewis stepped down from the role after 50 days in office;...
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Law Pod UK latest episode: Cryptocurrencies & NFTS – are they “property”?
The Law Commission has recently brought out its consultation paper on these new forms of assets, and how they might be aligned with the ancient law on property. In Episode 171 of Law Pod UK Rosalind...
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The small boats storm and the unlawful seizure of mobile phones
The storm raging around small boats arriving on the south coast has been brewing for some time. In early summer the focus was a policy to send arrivals to Rwanda. Intervention by the European Court of...
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The latest injunction against HS2 protestors bans nearly everyone anywhere on...
High Speed Two (HS2) Limited and the Secretary of State for Transport v Four Categories of Persons Unknown and Ross Monaghan and 58 other Named Defendants [2022] EWHC 2360 (KB) This case involved the...
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The Weekly Round-up: Migrant tagging, pandemic education rights, and Mental...
Source of photograph: https://www.dailysabah.com/world/europe/uks-gps-tagging-of-migrants-amounted-to-psychological-torture In the news A report has found that the newly introduced practice of GPS...
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The Weekly Round-up: Protest injunctions, EU law overhaul, and UN reviews...
Source of photograph: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-63533012 In the news The High Court has granted an injunction preventing M25 protests in response to Just Stop Oil activists gluing...
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Qatar 2022: The beautiful game meets a repressive reality
World Cup opening ceremonies can be head-scratching affairs. Chicago, 1994, is perhaps as helpful an example as any. This was the setting for Diana Ross’s attempt to burst the net with a...
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The Weekly Round-up: Cop27 deals, advertising restrictions, and online safety
The Financial Times, https://www.ft.com/content/78c54f80-9c39-4c93-bb05-6571b597d534 In the news: A historic deal has been agreed at the United Nation’s Cop27 summit which will provide funding to...
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Painful lessons about the duty of candour (more on the unlawful seizure of...
In an earlier post, we reported the Divisional Court’s eye-catching ruling that a blanket policy to seize and download data from migrants’ phones was unlawful: R (HM, MA and KH) v Secretary of State...
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Removal of gametes from brain dead man would breach his rights to privacy:...
The 22 year old patient in this case, X, was unconscious in intensive care during the course of this hearing, following a serious stroke. There was virtually no prospect that he would recover. This...
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The beginning of a pushback against Article 2 inquests?
In R (Morahan) v HM Assistant Coroner for West London [2022] EWCA Civ 1410, the Court of Appeal robustly rejected a challenge to the earlier decision of the Divisional Court that Article 2 did not...
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Salting the Bird’s Tail? The Online Safety Bill -v- Musk’s Twitter
Salting the Bird’s Tail: a superstition that sprinkling salt on a bird’s tail will render it temporarily unable to fly, enabling its capture Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter has made headline news over...
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The Weekly Round-up: Scottish independence referendum, retained EU law and...
In the News… The Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that the Scottish parliament does not have the power to pass legislation that would allow for a second referendum on Scottish independence. Such...
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The Weekly Round-up: Legal but harmful content, ministerial breaches, and...
Source of photograph: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/world-first-online-safety-laws-introduced-in-parliament In the news The proposed requirement for social media platforms to delete ‘legal but...
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Prof Brice Dickson: The UK’s Engagement With International Human Rights...
The UN human rights council on 13 March 2018 in Geneva, Switzerland. Photograph: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images We are pleased to welcome this guest post from Prof Brice Dickson, Emeritus Professor...
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Law Pod UK latest episode: Do we need laws against SLAPPs?
Strategic litigation against public participation has been very much in the news lately, with calls from anti-SLAPPs campaigners for such abusive litigation to be banned by statute, or by amendments...
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Law Pod UK Latest Episode: Permacrisis in Public Law? With Sir Jonathan Jones
In Episode 174 Emma-Louise Fenelon speaks to Sir Jonathan Jones about recent developments in public law and the Constitution, including recent political turbulence, the Union, the Northern Ireland...
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