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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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 |
Judge: Telegraph reporting of family case was “unbalanced, inaccurate and just plain wrong”
Posted in Art. 10 | Freedom of Expression, Art. 8 | Right to Privacy/Family, Children, Family, In the news, Media, Poor reporting on May 6, 2011 | 14 Comments »
L (A Child: Media Reporting), Re [2011] EWHC B8 (Fam) (18 April 2011) – Read judgment The thought of being personally criticised in a reported judgment would make most lawyers break into a cold sweat. Some journalists wear such treatment as a badge of honour. But surely it is professionally embarrassing for a high court [...]
Ban on religious couple adopting?.. On the naughty step
Posted in Art. 9 | Thought/Conscience/Religion, Defamation / Libel, Family, In the news, Poor reporting on April 26, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Human rights and discrimination law are often criticised in the press. Sometimes the criticisms are justified, but the level of anger which a system of universal rights can generate is sometimes surprising. Unfortunately, some of that anger is caused by inaccurate reporting of judgments. In yesterday’s Telegraph online, Cristina Odone blogged on a recent “scandal” [...]
Unelected judges dictating our laws etc. etc.
Posted in In the news, Poor reporting on February 11, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Much has been made in the prisoner voting debate of the fact that out laws should not be made by, as The Sun puts it, “unelected dictators”. Similarly, the Daily Mail says “the time has come for Britain to tell unelected Strasbourg judges that they have overstepped their authority“, and the Daily Express poses a [...]
Daily Mail back on naughty step over low-IQ sex ban case
Posted in In the news, Poor reporting, tagged legal naughty step, sex ban low IQ on February 8, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I posted last week on the interesting and morally complex case in which a judge in the Court of Protection ruled that a 41-year-old man with a mild learning disability did not have the mental capacity to consent to sex and should be prevented by a local council from doing so. The Daily Telegraph and Daily [...]
Daily Mail on the naughty step over domestic violence case
Posted in In the news, Poor reporting on January 30, 2011 | 5 Comments »
In an entertaining post which also raises the serious issue of journalistic responsibility, the Nearly Legal blog has put a Daily Mail “family law expert” on the naughty step in relation an article on a recent Supreme Court decision on the meaning of domestic violence in housing cases. According to the respected housing law blog, [...]
“Asylum seeker death driver” case was misunderstood
Posted in Art. 8 | Right to Privacy/Family, Case law, Children, Immigration/Extradition, Poor reporting, tagged asylum seeker death driver on December 22, 2010 | 7 Comments »
The Secretary of State for the Home Department v Respondent [2010] UKUT B1 – Read judgment There has been public outrage over the ruling of two Senior Immigration Judges that it would be unlawful to deport Aso Mohammed Ibrahim, an Iraqi Kurd, who has been labelled an “asylum seeker death driver” The fury has not [...]
Failure to deport Philip Lawrence killer was not about human rights
Posted in Art. 10 | Freedom of Expression, Art. 8 | Right to Privacy/Family, Features, Immigration/Extradition, Poor reporting, tagged Chindamo, Philip Lawrence on November 29, 2010 |
It has been widely reported that Learco Chindamo, who was convicted of killing headmaster Philip Lawrence in 1995, has been rearrested only months after being released from jail. The story has reopened a debate over the Human Rights Act, on the basis that it prevented Chindamo from being deported to his native Italy. But did [...]
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More poor human rights reporting in “killer of Gurkha’s son” deportation case
Posted in Art. 8 | Right to Privacy/Family, Case comments, Immigration/Extradition, In the news, Poor reporting on January 17, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Immigration and deportation decisions are regularly used to attack the Human Rights Act, and are raised as examples of why it must be amended or replaced. But a recent deportation case shows that such decisions are often poorly reported and articles ignore crucial details. Yesterday’s Sunday Telegraph reported on the case of a man who killed [...]
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