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Law Pod new episode: Human rights embrace climate change
Yesterday (Tuesday 9th of April) the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg handed down three judgments from the Grand Chamber. Two of the applications were rejected on admissibility grounds....
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The Weekly Round-Up: Climate Inaction Breaches Human Rights, EU Asylum Pact...
In the News Dr Hilary Cass, Chair of the Independent Review of gender identity services for children and young people, submitted her final report last Wednesday to NHS England. The Cass Review was...
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Substantively orthodox: three takeaways from the ECHR climate change decisions
By Professor Stefan Theil Introduction On 9 April 2024 the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) handed down its decision in three climate change cases: Carême v France, Duarte...
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The Weekly Round-up: School Prayer Ban and Further Debates on Rwanda Bill
In UK news The House of Lords has once again delayed the passage of the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill. The Bill returned to the House of Lords for consideration of Commons amendments...
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Termination of pregnancy and wishes and feelings in the Court of Protection
Introduction The decision of the Court of Protection in Rotherham and Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust and NR [2024] EWCOP 17 is the latest in a line of cases where the Court has been...
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Law Pod UK latest: Punching a window on the world of family law
In January this year, the Transparency Implementation Group Reporting Pilot was rolled out to 16 more courts across England. The pilot works on the basis of a presumption that journalists and legal...
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The Weekly Round-Up: Coroner criticises indeterminate prison sentences and...
In UK News At the conclusion of the inquest into the death of Scott Rider, the coroner described Rider’s treatment in prison as “inhumane and indefensible”. Rider died by suicide in June 2022 after...
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Negligence in football: A claim of two halves
Football fans everywhere will be familiar with reckless tackles, whether from their own Sunday league experience or as followers of the professional game. But when will a tackle amount to negligence...
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James Robottom: The Safety of Rwanda Act, Slavery and the Common Law
The following piece was first published on the UK Constitutional Law Blog on 25 April 2024 and is reproduced here with their permission, for which the editors are grateful Commentary on the Safety of...
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The Weekly Round-Up: Single Sex Spaces & More Challenges to Rwanda Scheme
In the News Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu reaffirmed Israel’s rejection of Hamas’ offer for the return of all hostages in return for the end of the war in Gaza on Sunday, claiming such a deal would...
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Secret Justice: the system for closed proceedings is in melt-down
A substantial majority of Special Advocates has felt driven to decline to accept new appointments to the role. This is a result of the Government’s continuing failure to provide proper support for...
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The Weekly Round-up: Rafah military offensive, Rwanda policy challenges, and...
In international news This week Israel began military operations in Rafah, a town at the south of the Gaza strip where 1.4 million displaced Palestinians are sheltering. Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu...
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Banning prayer in school: a lawful interference?
By Rebekah Lee The case of R (TTT) v Michaela Community Schools Trust [2024] EWHC 843 (Admin) in the High Court before Mr Justice Linden concerned a claim brought by a pupil referred to as a TTT (“the...
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Law Pod UK new episode – Small Data: damage, distress and the development of...
Personal data is intimately connected to privacy (art 8, ECHR) but is regulated by specific data protection regimes, such as the UK GDPR. Attention-grabbing legal issues arising out of Big Data...
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The Weekly Round-Up: Georgia Protests, Military Whistleblower Jailed, &...
In the News A bill in Georgia demanding that all foreign entities and NGOs which receive more than a fifth of their funding from international sources must be labelled as ‘bearing the interests of a...
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The Weekly Round-up: Public inquiries, protest powers ultra vires, ICJ and...
In UK news On 20 May, the Infected Blood Inquiry, chaired by Sir Brian Langstaff, published its final report. The inquiry was set up to investigate the circumstances in which people treated by the NHS...
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Law Pod New Episode No.199
Following the Strasbourg Court’s dismissal of Kosher and Halal groups’ challenge to the ban on no-stun slaughter of food animals, Rosalind English talks to animal welfare campaigner Paula Sparks about...
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The Illegal Migration Act and its inevitable fate in Northern Ireland: Re...
Just a little over 2 months ago, Professor Colin Murray and I said on this Blog ‘The disapplication of any part of an Act of the UK Parliament is infrequent enough to be notable‘. Just a little over a...
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Washed-up: Angus McCullough KC comments on the long-awaited HMG response to...
The Government’s response to the delayed Ouseley report was finally published on 29 May 2024, the last day before the dissolution of Parliament. In this piece a leading Special Advocate describes...
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The Weekly Round-Up: Northern Ireland strikes down anonymity law and...
A demonstrator holds photos of the ‘NSL47’ in September 2021. © Peter Parks/AFP/Getty Images In UK news The High Court in Belfast struck down sections 12 to 16 of the Justice (Sexual Offences and...
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