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The Weekly Round-Up: ‘Pyjama Injunctions’, the Rwanda Policy, and War in...
In the news Yet again, the Public Order Bill and the Illegal Migration Bill have been back in the papers this week. The latter has made it through the House of Commons by 59 votes, following...
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Protection of the public and the retrospective application of penalties
On 29 November 2019 Usman Khan attended a rehabilitation event at Fishmongers’ Hall and stabbed five people, two fatally. On 2 February 2020 Sudesh Amman attacked two passers-by in Streatham High Road...
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Law Pod UK latest episode: Navigating the Reservoir of Retained EU Law
On May the 10th the government announced that a fundamental change to the Retained EU Law Bill. As you will hear from Episode 184, I discuss with Sam Willis of the Public Law Project the so called...
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The Weekly Round-up: Scrapping the ‘sunset clause’, the Public Order Act...
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/09/world/europe/uk-police-coronation-arrests.html In the news On Wednesday, it was announced a committee of MPs will examine the Metropolitan Police’s...
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Law Pod UK latest episode: Is AI Coming for the Lawyers?
Professor Richard Susskind OBE is the IT adviser to the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, author of several books on technology and the law, and has been warning the legal profession about the...
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The Weekly Round-up: Braverman, the 14th Amendment, CPS “cherry-picking”
Source: https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/suella-braverman-braces-for-toughest-week-of-political-career_uk_646a4074e4b06749be149991 In the news Rishi Sunak is expected to be consulting his ethics...
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Trouble at the EHRC, Modern Slavery, and Gay Rights in Romania: The Weekly...
In the news The head of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, Kishwer Faulkner, is facing an independent investigation into alleged misconduct. It is reported that around 40 complaints have been...
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Torture, Restraint of Children in Care, and LGBTQ+ Rights in Uganda: The...
In the news The UK’s role in the torture of detainees following the 9/11 attacks, is in question. Last week, the investigatory powers tribunal announced that, on grounds of public interest, they will...
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A common law duty of care to issue an Osman warning?
‘There may be exceptional cases where the circumstances compel the conclusion that the absence of a remedy sounding in damages would be an affront to the principles which underlie the common law. Then...
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The Weekly Round-up: Covid Inquiry, Abortion law, Sue Carr as Lord Chief Justice
In the news: The inquiry into the government’s handling of Covid has begun hearing evidence in public. The first topic of discussion, Chair Baroness Hallett’s Module 1, is pandemic preparedness. Hugo...
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Non-Fungible Tokens: Blockchain Technology and the Legal Framework
In the latest episode of Law Pod UK, Robert Kellar KC discusses the developing law on NFTs with Victoria Walters, library learning advisor at the Bristol campus of the University of Law. We are...
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The Weekly Round-Up: Greek Migrant Boat Tragedy, Italian pushback against...
In the news Further details of the sinking of a Greek fishing boat carrying up to 800 people – including up to 100 children – have come out, placing the Greek authorities under intense scrutiny. The...
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The Supreme Court provides authoritative guidance on the application of...
Introduction The advent of the Human Rights Act 1998, and the incorporation into domestic law of the Article 2 right to life, has transformed coronial investigations and inquests over the last two...
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Unpublished policy and unlawful detention: a case note on R (MXK) v Secretary...
In R (MXK) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2023] EWHC 1272 (Admin), the Administrative Court held that: the repeated detention of the claimants – foreign nationals with limited leave to...
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Law Pod UK latest: Do the police owe potential victims a duty to warn of harm?
Traditionally, the courts have been extremely reluctant to impose a positive duty of care on the police to protect or warn members of the public who may be potential victims of crime. This sort of...
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The Weekly Round-up: the COVID-19 Inquiry, Crimes of Aggression in Ukraine,...
In the news On Thursday, the High Court dismissed a claim for judicial review brought by the Cabinet Office, regarding a notice issued by the Chair of the COVID-19 Inquiry which requested the...
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R. v. Foster: Reigniting the UK Abortion Law Debate
Last month marked one year since the startling repeal of Roe v Wade on the 24th June 2022 – the day the US Supreme Court rowed back the right of American women to obtain an abortion. Almost exactly a...
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The Weekly Round-Up: Illegal Migration Bill, Huw Edwards, Striking Regulations
In the News Concluding five days of speculation, Huw Edwards was named on Wednesday as the BBC figure at the centre of the Sun’s allegations of sexual impropriety. The newspaper claimed the presenter...
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Court of Appeal upholds challenge to Rwanda removals policy – an extended look
R ((AAA) Syria and Ors) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2023] EWCA Civ 745 The Claimants in this case are 10 individual asylum-seekers from Syria, Iraq, Iran, Vietnam, Sudan and Albania...
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Covid, the Cabinet and a tussle over disclosure: R (Cabinet Office) v The...
Introduction In a decision that may come as little surprise to those working in the fields of inquiries and public law, the Divisional Court consisting of Dingemans LJ and Garnham J dismissed the...
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