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The Weekly Round-Up: High Court looks at section 3C leave; Biden imposes...
In UK news A group of UN experts has expressed concern regarding deception and exploitation faced by migrants coming to work in the UK. The Seasonal Worker Scheme, put in place to cover labour...
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European Court of Human Rights rules that climate change mitigation is an...
This article was first published in Edition 33 of the Journal of Environmental Law and Management. It is reproduced here with the kind permission of the editors at Lawtext Publishing Limited On Monday...
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The Weekly Round-Up: UK’s wrongful imprisonment compensation scheme is legal...
In UK News A report published by the Runnymede Trust on Monday found that black people, and especially black children, are subject to disproportionate rates of strip search across all police forces in...
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Law Pod UK 200th Episode
Our 200th episode is the second of our International Women’s Day series exploring gender at the Bar. In this series, Lucy McCann and Rajkiran Arhestey speak to Lady Justice Whipple, Sally Smith KC,...
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The Weekly Round Up: OHCHR Report on Israeli Airstrikes & the 76th...
In UK News On Thursday, representatives from Liberty, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Inclusion London addressed journalists at a briefing in Westminster to call for politicians and the...
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The Weekly Round-up: Russian human rights abuses in Ukraine, climate...
In UK news Julian Assange has been released from HM Prison Belmarsh after accepting a plea deal with American prosecutors. Assange pleaded guilty to one charge of conspiracy to violate the Espionage...
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Planning authorities must take account of global emissions in approvals for...
R (on the application of Finch on behalf of the Weald Action Group) (Appellant) v Surrey CountyCouncil and others (Respondents) A detailed summary of the issues and the facts in this case can be found...
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The (inadvertent) perils of a strictly formal equality: Re Mediahuis and...
Introduction The road to hell, so the saying goes, is paved with good intentions. While not quite as dire, well-intentioned laws can nevertheless sometimes have severe consequences. In Re Mediahuis...
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UK Government loses latest round in long-running Diego Garcia litigation
In The Commissioner for the British Indian Ocean Territory v. The King (on the application of VT and Others), the UK Government has lost the latest round in long-running litigation concerning a group...
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The Weekly Round-up: Cumbria coal mine quashed, Finucane public inquiry...
In UK news The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Hilary Benn, has announced a public inquiry into the killing of Pat Finucane. Mr Finucane was a solicitor working in Belfast who had represented...
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Law Pod UK latest: Raising Racism at Inquests
In Episode 201 Emma-Louise Fenelon speaks to Emma Snell of JUSTICE and Christian Weaver, a barrister at Garden North Chambers about Achieving Racial Justice at Inquests: A Practitioner’s Guide (2024),...
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The Weekly Round-Up: Explosions in Lebanon, Paterson loses in ECtHR, Huw...
In the News At least 39 people were killed and over 3000 injured last week following a series of attacks in Lebanon and Syria in which electronic pagers and radios were remotely programmed to explode....
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In Sammut v Next Steps Mental Healthcare Ltd and Greater Manchester Mental Health Foundation Trust [2024] EWHC 2265(KB), HHJ Bird sitting as a judge of the High Court gave summary judgment in favour...
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The Weekly Round-up: UK cedes Chagos sovereignty, vote on assisted dying, and...
In UK news The government has announced that it is ceding sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius. When granting Mauritius’ independence in 1968, the UK unlawfully separated the Chagos...
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Paterson v UK: Parliament and Human Rights in Strasbourg
The name ‘Chris Pincher’ has become synonymous with Boris Johnson’s downfall, but it was the case of Owen Paterson that precipitated the unrest in the Conservative Party that ultimately led to the...
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The Weekly Round-Up: Gender Recognition in Europe, Employment Rights, & ECHR...
In UK News Last week, the Government published the new Employment Rights Bill – a bill Deputy PM Angela Raynor has said seeks to “turn the page on an economy riven with insecurity, ravaged by dire...
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Husband who escorted his wife to Switzerland not denied access to her estate...
Philip Morris v James Morris, Kate Shmuel and Gregory White [2024] EWHC 2554 (Ch) These proceedings concerned the forfeiture rule under section 2(2) of the Forfeiture Act 1982 as it applies to the...
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The Weekly Round-up: The Kaba acquittal, proposed Anonymity for police...
In UK news This week police firearms officer Sgt Martyn Blake was acquitted of the murder of Chris Kaba, after shooting Mr Kaba through the windscreen of his car. Mr Kaba was unarmed and driving with...
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Law Pod UK New Episode: The Judge Over Your Shoulder
Over 30 years ago, the Pergau Dam affair, linking aid to trade with Malaysia burst into the papers as one of Britain’s biggest aid scandals. The government promised to supply aid to build a...
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Guest Post: Assisted Suicide on the NHS would breach the ECHR
In this guest post, Rajiv Shah argues that the provision of assisted suicide in the England and Wales via the NHS would constitute a substantive breach of the negative obligation imposed on the State...
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