Welcome back to the UK Human Rights Roundup, your weekly bulletin of human rights news. The full list of links can be found here. You can also find our table of human rights cases here and previous roundups here. The biggest news of the week this week was the decision of the European Court of Human Rights in the [...]
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Prisoner voting, Bratza’s replacement and peaceful protest – The Human Rights Roundup
Posted in Roundup on May 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Sumption’s Speech, Settling and Secret Justice – The Human Rights Roundup
Posted in Roundup, tagged human rights on May 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Welcome back to the UK Human Rights Roundup, your weekly bulletin of human rights news. The full list of links can be found here. You can also find our table of human rights cases here and previous roundups here. This week saw some commentary on Lord Sumption’s latest speech, which may indicate further advances into [...]
Queen’s Speech, Abu Qatada and the NHS risk register – The Human Rights Roundup
Posted in Roundup, tagged human rights on May 13, 2012 |
Welcome back to the UK Human Rights Roundup, your weekly bulletin of human rights news. The full list of links can be found here. You can also find our table of human rights cases here and previous roundups here. This week saw the Queen’s Speech set out a number of legislative reforms, the veto of the release of the [...]
Democracy dangers, freedom of speech and a Leveson update – The Human Rights Roundup
Posted in Roundup, tagged human rights on May 6, 2012 |
Welcome back to the UK Human Rights Roundup, your weekly bulletin of human rights news. The full list of links can be found here. You can also find our table of human rights cases here and previous roundups here. In the news This week, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office published its Report on Democracy and [...]
More Brighton analysis, tweeting in court, and vulnerable defendants – The Human Rights Roundup
Posted in Roundup on April 30, 2012 |
Welcome back to the UK Human Rights Roundup, your weekly buffet of human rights news. The full list of links can be found here. You can also find our table of human rights cases here and previous roundups here. In the news A mixed bag this week: Theresa May remained in the news over Abu Qatada, a [...]
Brighton rock, Abu Qatada and the democratic deficit – The Human Rights Roundup
Posted in Roundup on April 22, 2012 |
Welcome back to the UK Human Rights Roundup, your weekly bulletin of human rights news. The full list of links can be found here. You can also find our table of human rights cases here and previous roundups here. In the news This week saw the final Brighton Declaration, containing the Council of Europe states’ [...]
Brighton begins, gay cures and information access – The Human Rights Roundup
Posted in Roundup on April 16, 2012 |
Welcome back to the UK Human Rights Roundup, your weekly dose of human rights news. The full list of links can be found here. You can also find our table of human rights cases here and previous roundups here. In the news This week, the debate about extradition rages on following the Strasbourg Court’s decision [...]
Hamza (almost) out, secret justice and government snooping – The Human Rights Roundup
Posted in Roundup on April 10, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Welcome back to the UK Human Rights Roundup, your weekly helping of human rights news. The full list of links can be found here. You can also find our table of human rights cases here and previous roundups here. In the news The big news of today is that Abu Hamza, Babar Ahmad and 3 [...]
Reforms, flooding, and deckchairs – The Human Rights Roundup
Posted in Roundup on April 2, 2012 |
Welcome back to the UK Human Rights Roundup, your weekly bulletin of human rights news. The full list of links can be found here. You can also find our table of human rights cases here and previous roundups here. In the news This week we have further developments in freedom of information (both in terms [...]
Free expression, privacy injunctions and gay marriage – The Human Rights Roundup
Posted in In the news, Roundup, tagged human rights on March 26, 2012 |
Welcome back to the UK Human Rights Roundup, your weekly bulletin of human rights news. The full list of links can be found here. You can also find our table of human rights cases here and previous roundups here. In the news It’s been an interesting week for freedom of expression issues, and its Article [...]
Rights and wrongs – The Human Rights Roundup
Posted in Roundup, tagged human rights on March 18, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Welcome back to the UK Human Rights Roundup, your weekly summary of human rights news. The full list of links can be found here. You can also find our table of human rights cases here and previous roundups here. In the news Human rights continue to be big news this week, with Andrew Neil’s Rights [...]
Shaping Strasbourg, gay marriage and free speech – The Human Rights Roundup
Posted in Roundup, tagged human rights, Religion on March 12, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Welcome back to the UK Human Rights Roundup, your weekly summary of human rights news. The full list of links can be found here. You can also find our table of human rights cases here and previous roundups here. In the news It’s been another big week for human rights, with the draft Brighton Declaration [...]
Brighton bombshells, Justice vs Security, Legal Aid U-turns – The Human Rights Roundup
Posted in Roundup, tagged government, human rights, Politics, Religion on March 4, 2012 |
Welcome back to your weekly helping of human rights news. The full list of links can be found here. You can also find our table of human rights cases here and previous roundups here. In the news The biggest news of the week was the leak of the Draft Brighton declaration, the UK’s proposals for the [...]
Student fees, access to justice and Leveson Part II – The Human Rights Roundup
Posted in In the news, Roundup, tagged human rights, immigration rules on February 26, 2012 |
Welcome back to the human rights roundup, your weekly buffet of human rights news. The full list of links can be found here. You can also find our table of human rights cases here and previous roundups here. In the news Legal aid reforms The proposed reforms to legal aid are divisive: they are either [...]
Keeping it controversial: Religion, deportation and open justice – The Human Rights Roundup
Posted in Roundup, tagged Equality Act, human rights, human rights news, intelligence services act, michael gove on February 20, 2012 |
Welcome back to the human rights roundup, your recommended weekly dose of human rights news. The full list of links can be found here. You can also find our table of human rights cases here and previous roundups here. In the news Religion and the State Following on from last week’s ruling from the High Court [...]
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- SCOPPOLA v. ITALY (No. 3) - 126/05 [2012] ECHR 868 (22 May 2012) May 23, 2012ECtHR Grand Chamber: automatic and indiscriminate disenfranchisement of prisoners unlawful but up to individual states how to implement changes were such a ban exist
- Dishonesty in entry clearance applications May 21, 2012An Upper Tribunal (UT) decision confirms that, where an application for entry clearance is “marred by dishonesty” – whether in the applicant’s knowledge or not and even where the applicant is presently eligible for entry – it is not a disproportionate response for the Home Secretary to refuse the application, even in light of Article 8
- MM and AO (A Child), R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2012] EWCA Civ 668 (18 May 2012) May 18, 2012Secretary of State acted lawfully in not ordering independent inquiry into 2009 protest at Immigration Detention Centre. Challenge by children separated from parents during protest and claiming pschiatric damage as result.
- British Sky Broadcasting Ltd & Ors, R (on the application of) v Chelmsford Crown Court [2012] EWHC 1295 (Admin) (17 May 2012) May 17, 2012Sky, BBC, ITN etc. succeed in JR of decision by court to order production of 100+ hours of video footage to Essex Police of Dale Farm protesters: "... there were no reasonable grounds for believing that the footage of over 100 hours included material likely to be of substantial value to the investigation"
- Humphreys v Revenue and Customs [2012] UKSC 18 (16 May 2012) May 16, 2012Supreme Court: paying child tax credit to "main" care giver not discriminatory under art.14 ECHR to father caring for child 3 days per week. The specific test for justifying discrimination in the context of state benefits is that with questions of social and economic strategy the Court will generally respect the legislature’s policy choice unless i […]
- Hounga v Allen & Anor [2012] EWCA Civ 609 (15 May 2012) May 16, 2012Court of Appeal: Person knowingly working illegally cannot bring racial discrimination claim against "employers"
- SCOPPOLA v. ITALY (No. 3) - 126/05 [2012] ECHR 868 (22 May 2012) May 23, 2012
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- Police denied TV footage of Dale Farm evictions May 24, 2012 Rosalind English
- Time extended for appeals under Extradition Act May 23, 2012 Rosalind English
- Why no public appointment hearings for UK’s new European Court of Human Rights judge? May 23, 2012 Adam Wagner
- Don’t rely on human rights in a dismissal claim May 22, 2012 Martin Downs
- European Court of Human Rights retreats but doesn’t surrender on prisoner votes May 22, 2012 Adam Wagner
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