‘A protester has been ordered to pay more than £7,500 after failing to comply with a public space protection order (PSPO), which created a designated safe zone outside a reproductive health clinic in Ealing.’
Local Government Lawyer, 23rd January 2025
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A man and woman who were accused of buying pills to induce an illegal abortion have been sentenced to community orders.’
The Guardian, 18th December 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A man has been jailed for 12 years for sexually assaulting a pregnant woman and giving her medication to cause a miscarriage.’
BBC News, 6th December 2024
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Kuljit Bhogal KC and Sarah Salmon explain why a defendant was recently convicted of breaching a PSPO near an abortion clinic.’
Local Government Lawyer, 15th November 2024
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Safe access zones are now in force around abortion clinics in England and Wales to protect women accessing these services.’
Home Office, 31st October 2024
Source: www.gov.uk
‘A man who gave orange juice to a woman that he spiked with an abortion-inducing drug has been found guilty of administering a poison to procure a miscarriage.’
Crown Prosecution Service, 30th October 2024
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
‘On 21 October 2024, the Secretary of State made The Public Order Act 2023 (Commencement No. 5) (England and Wales) Regulations 2024 which extend to England and Wales; this provides that Section 9 of the Public Order Act 2023 (offence of interference with access to or provision of abortion services) will come into force on 31 October 2024.’
Law & Religion UK, 23rd October 2024
Source: lawandreligionuk.com
‘Buffer zones will soon be introduced outside abortion clinics to stop women seeking abortions from being harassed by protesters.’
The Independent, 18th September 2024
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘This article adds to the still limited scholarship on the impact of abortion laws and policies on people with disabilities and those with diminished capacity who seek abortion. We argue that neither the legal nor policy framework currently operating in England and Wales adequately incorporates and protects the rights of people with disabilities or those experiencing mental ill-health. Rather, the law and policy framework jeopardizes their reproductive agency. We argue that greater attention to and incorporation of standards contained within the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (including the sources produced by its Committee) and implementation of guidelines produced by the World Health Organization would result in a rights-affirming framework that supports disabled women’s reproductive agency, enhances their effective enjoyment of human rights, and supports them in accessing quality abortion care.’
Medical Law Review, 17th July 2024
Source: academic.oup.com
‘The jury in the trial of a teenager charged with arranging her own illegal abortion has been discharged for legal reasons.’
The Independent, 20th May 2024
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘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 asked to determine whether a termination of pregnancy is in a woman’s best interests. Any case about a termination engages the pregnant woman’s Article 8 rights. But where the woman also lacks capacity to decide for herself whether to have a termination, there must be a particularly careful analysis to ensure that her rights are respected. While previous decisions have frequently accorded weight to the wishes and feelings of the pregnant woman at the heart of the case, Mr Justice Hayden’s decision goes further in handing the decision over to the pregnant woman herself.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 25th April 2024
Source: ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘A cross-party group of MPs is proposing to make abortion access a human right in England and Wales, putting forward legislation that would decriminalise abortion up to 24 weeks and introduce protections against access being stripped back.’
The Guardian, 8th April 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A judge sitting in the Court of Protection has declared that a care plan setting out the arrangements for the termination of a woman’s pregnancy was lawful.’
Local Government Lawyer, 14th March 2024
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘As the dust settles on another year, it is (just about still) time to look back over the year gone to review some of the most dramatic, legally interesting or impactful cases of the year gone by. As ever, this is only a selection of the top cases of the year, but as a whole they reveal yet another year in which the courts have been drawn into the centre of the most important social and political debates of the society in which they find themselves.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 29th January 2024
Source: ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘Medical staff in the UK should not report women to the police if they believe their patients may have illegally ended their own pregnancy, a professional body has said. The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) has said it is never in the public interest to report women who have abortions to law enforcement agencies, according to the BBC.’
The Guardian, 22nd January 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Ministers have been accused of watering down guidance around new buffer zones outside abortion clinics in England and Wales, after it emerged campaigners could still be allowed to conduct silent prayers and approach women attending clinics to discuss the issue.’
The Guardian, 17th January 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A woman charged with carrying out an illegal abortion on herself has been found not guilty on the eve of her trial after the prosecution dropped the case due to “evidential difficulties”.’
BBC News, 9th January 2024
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Women using abortion clinics are still being harassed despite MPs voting a year ago to create buffer zones to stop protesters intimidating them, medical and abortion groups say.’
The Guardian, 18th October 2023
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A senior court has said jailing women for abortion-related crimes was “unlikely” to be a “just outcome” after a mother’s sentence was reduced.’
BBC News, 18th October 2023
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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