The Trade Union Congress have sent me the full letter (download here) which Education Secretary Michael Gove sent to its leader Brendan Barber in relation to a complaint about seemingly homophobic booklets distributed to Roman Catholic schools in Lancashire. The letter which Mr Barber sent to Mr Gove is here. I complained in this post [...]
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Michael Gove’s full letter on homophobic teaching materials in schools
Posted in Art. 10 | Freedom of Expression, Art. 14 | Anti-Discrimination, Discrimination, In the news, Poor reporting, Religion, tagged Equality Act, gay discrimination, michael gove, trade union congress on February 22, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Is Strasbourg obsessively interventionist? A view from the Court – Paul Harvey
Posted in European, In the news, Judges and Juries, Politics / Public Order, Poor reporting on January 24, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Andrew Tickell in his recent post (Is the European Court of Human Rights obsessively interventionist?) makes a number of important points about the European Court of Human Rights’ approach to admissibility, in particular the application of the manifestly ill-founded criterion. Perhaps understandably, the majority of legal scholars have preferred to focus on the more substantive [...]
Is the European Court of Human Rights obsessively interventionist?
Posted in Bill of Rights, European, In the news, Poor reporting, tagged Strasbourg on January 22, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Marie-Bénédicte Dembour calls them ‘forgotten cases’. As Adam Wagner demonstrated in a blog post of last week, Eurosceptic newspapers have a particular interest in overlooking the European Court of Human Right’s decisions of inadmissibility, seeking to buttress claims that the Court is wildly interventionist, imposing alien “European” logics on Britain with gleeful abandon. Both the [...]
UK loses 3 out of 4 European human rights cases? More like 1 in 50, actually
Posted in Bill of Rights, European, International, Poor reporting, tagged daily mail, European Court of Human Rights, legal naughty step on January 12, 2012 | 17 Comments »
It is rightly said that 95% of statistics are made up. Today’s Daily Mail front page headline contained a typically exuberant statistical claim: Europe’s war on British justice: UK loses three out of four human rights cases, damning report reveals. According to journalist James Slack “Unelected Euro judges” are mounting a “relentless attack on British [...]
Are some rights to private life just not cricket?
Posted in Art. 8 | Right to Privacy/Family, Case comments, Immigration/Extradition, In the news, Poor reporting, tagged cricket, Express, immigration, Telegraph on January 9, 2012 | 18 Comments »
Mr Abdullah Manuwar and Secretary of State for the Home Department IA26/543/2010 – Read decision We have posted on this blog previously on some of the poor reporting of human rights cases. Alarm bells were ringing as the Sunday Telegraph reported student Abdullah Munawar’s appeal on human rights grounds against a refusal to grant him leave to stay in [...]
“Would Judges like to be told to eff off in court?”… what the police swearing judgment really says
Posted in Art. 10 | Freedom of Expression, Case comments, Criminal, Police, Poor reporting on December 1, 2011 | 13 Comments »
Harvey v Director of Public Prosecutions [2011] EWHC Crim B1 – Read judgment “What on earth was he thinking?” asks a Telegraph article bearing as its title another rhetorical question, “Would Judges like to be told to eff off in court?”. This is in reference to Mr Justice Bean’s judgment in Harvey v Director of [...]
Freemen of the dangerous nonsense
Posted in Media, Poor reporting on November 15, 2011 | 66 Comments »
Updated x 2 | Today, guardian.co.uk’s Comment is Free (CIF) was “taken over” by the Occupy London movement. This has led to two particularly worrying articles being published. Both purport to offer legal advice which, if followed, could lead you straight to prison. For that reason, Guardian CIF goes straight to the legal naughty step, where [...]
Can Britain “ignore Europe on human rights”?
Posted in European, Poor reporting, tagged legal naughty step on October 23, 2011 | 15 Comments »
Headlines are important. They catch the eye and can be the only reason a person decides to read an article or, in the case of a front page headline, buy a newspaper. On Thursday The Times’ front page headline was “Britain can ignore Europe on human rights: top judge”. But can it? And did Lord [...]
What the first #catgate appeal judgment actually says
Posted in Art. 8 | Right to Privacy/Family, Case summaries, Immigration/Extradition, Media, Poor reporting, tagged #catgate on October 6, 2011 | 8 Comments »
Updated |I have been sent the first appeal judgment in the political frenzy which has been termed “Catgate”. I had promised myself not to do any more Catgate posts or use any more cute pictures of kittens, but I have now broken that promise. Having read the short, 6-page judgment dated 9 October 2008 by [...]
The lessons of shaggy dogs and Catgate
Posted in Animals, European, In the news, Poor reporting, tagged human rights, Maya the Cat on October 5, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Updated x 2 | What can we learn from yesterday’s gaff by the Home Secretary Theresa May involving Maya the cat? First, when referring to a legal judgment in a speech make sure you get the outcome right. Particularly when prefaced by “I am not making this up”. Secondly, if said speech is being broadcast live, [...]
Cat had nothing to do with failure to deport man
Posted in Art. 8 | Right to Privacy/Family, Immigration/Extradition, In the news, Poor reporting on October 4, 2011 | 18 Comments »
Updated | Today the Home Secretary Theresa May gave a speech to the Conservative Party Conference in which she announced new immigration rules which would make it easier to deport foreign criminals. May also gave three examples in support of the view that the Human Rights Act “has to go”: We all know the stories [...]
Lord Justice Wall lays down law on family court privacy
Posted in Art. 10 | Freedom of Expression, Art. 6 | Right to Fair Trial, Children, Family, In the news, Poor reporting on September 20, 2011 | 16 Comments »
Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council v Watson [2011] EWHC 2376 (Fam) (01 September 2011) – Read judgment Sir Nicholas Wall, the President of the Family Division, has suspended a nine-month prison sentence for contempt of court given to Elizabeth Watson, a “private investigator” who published online sex abuse allegations which had been rejected by a series [...]
Telegraph wrong again on foreign deportation
Posted in Art. 10 | Freedom of Expression, Art. 8 | Right to Privacy/Family, Immigration/Extradition, Media, Poor reporting on September 8, 2011 | 1 Comment »
In a recent speech about the August riots, the Prime Minister bemoaned the “twisting and misrepresenting of human rights”. Unfortunately, this practice is common in the press, sometimes by accident but often by design. One common accusation against the Human Rights Act is that it prevents the state deporting some foreign criminals. This is sometimes [...]
More poor human rights reporting on Somali foreign criminals case
Posted in Art. 3 | Torture / Inhumane Treatment, European, Immigration/Extradition, In the news, Media, Poor reporting on June 30, 2011 | Comments Off
In today’s Daily Express, Stephen Pollard has written an article entitled We must regain right to kick out foreign criminals. There is a lot wrong with the article, not least the misrepresentation – not for the first time, either – of a 2007 case involving the failed deportation of headmaster Philip Lawrence’s killer. Pollard is responding [...]
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- The Mayor Commonalty and Citizens of London v Samede (St Paul's Churchyard camp representative) & Ors (Rev 1) [2012] EWCA Civ 160 (22 February 2012) February 22, 2012Court of Appeal refuses permission for Occupy London to appeal High Court eviction ruling
- Hurley & Moore, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for Business Innovation & Skills [2012] EWHC 201 (Admin) (17 February 2012) February 17, 20122 students fail in judicial review of tuition fee rises. Human rights (right to education under A2/P2) challenge failed outright; public law challenge failed despite finding that Sec of State "did not carry out the rigorous attention to" Public Sector Equality Duties
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- T, R (on the application of) v Greater Manchester Police & Anor [2012] EWHC 147 (Admin) (09 February 2012) February 9, 2012Student fails in human rights challenge to Enhanced Criminal Records Certificate with warning incurred when he was 11 for theft of 2 bicycles
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Youth restraint challenge rejected by High Court
Posted in Art. 3 | Torture / Inhumane Treatment, Art. 8 | Right to Privacy/Family, Case comments, Case summaries, Children, In the news, Poor reporting, Prisons, tagged Access to justice, Standing on January 16, 2012 | 1 Comment »
The Children’s Rights Alliance for England (CRAE) v Secretary of State for Justice and G4S Care and Justice Services (UK) Ltd and Serco plc [2012] EWHC 8 (Admin) – read judgment Although certain restraining measures had been taken unlawfully against young people in secure training centres for a number of years, the court had no jurisdiction [...]
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