“Three high court judges have said there is room for improvement in the operation of counter-terror powers used by police special branch officers to stop, question and detain 70,000 people a year passing through Britain’s airports and ports.”
The Guardian, 28th August 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A Muslim woman who says she was stopped at an airport ‘without reasonable suspicion’ is awaiting a court ruling on whether her rights were breached.”
BBC News, 28th August 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A triple murderer has become the first UK citizen to mount a legal challenge against his ‘life means life’ tariff after a controversial ruling from European judges that it breaches human rights.”
The Independent, 21st August 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Women’s prison in Surrey criticised for ‘inhumane and degrading treatment’ of a prisoner.”
The Guardian, 21st August 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“This week, judicial review continued to take a beating, the Home Office backed down over their ‘Go Home’ campaign and the legal implications behind the twitter threat debacle were considered. And, finally, the immigration and asylum tribunal launched a useful online search service.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 19th August 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Peake v LB Hackney is another cautionary tale about the importance of lodging statutory homelessness appeals within the 21 day limit.”
NearlyLegal, 18th August 2013
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk/blog/
“Tabbakh, R (on the application of) v Staffordshire and West Midlands Probation Trust and others [2013] EWHC 2492 (Admin). The claimant, a Syrian national, was serving the non-custodial part of a seven year sentence imposed for an offence of preparing a terrorist act. He was released automatically on licence on 23 June 2011, having served half his sentence. He took proceedings for judicial review contending that he had had no meaningful opportunity to participate in the process when his licence conditions were determined and that this constituted a breach of the procedural guarantees under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 15th August 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Ministers are powerless to deport a convicted foreign terrorist who has lived in Britain for 12 years even though he has lost a long-running legal battle for refugee status.”
Daily Telegraph, 15th August 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The House of Commons Health Committee has published a report (PDF) following its inquiries into the Mental Health Act 2007. The MHA 2007 introduced several amendments to the Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA, as amended), some of which were very controversial at the time and continue to be so now. The Health Committee’s report follows post-legislative scrutiny of the legislation by its parent department.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 14th August 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Tens of thousands of vulnerable people are being detained unlawfully due to the complexity of the Mental Capacity Act (MCA), lawyers have told a House of Lords committee.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 12th August 2013
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“Britain needs to look at scrapping the Human Rights Act, David Cameron has said.”
The Guardian, 8th August 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“BT and Vodafone are among seven large telecoms firms which could be pulled into a legal challenge under human rights law for cooperating with GCHQ’s large-scale internet surveillance programs.”
The Guardian, 8th August 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The morally and politically charged area of assisted suicide has many of the hallmarks of an insoluble problem. This has not prevented courts in some jurisdictions considering how they might ‘legalise’ assisted suicide without really legalising it. In doing so, they have raised manifold challenges in the minds of administrative and constitutional lawyers, including, in some jurisdictions, whether the prohibition on assisted suicide is itself constitutional, such as Rodriguez in Canada, Fleming in Ireland and Pretty in the ECtHR.”
UK Constitutional Law Group, 7th August 2013
Source: www.ukconstitutionallaw.org
“The Orthodox Archbishop of Craiova in Romania, that is, not the Archbishop of Canterbury. The European Court of Human Rights recently handed down an interesting ruling on Article 11 (freedom of assembly and association) that could also have more far-reaching consequences for the application of Article 9 (freedom of religion).”
UK Human Rights Blog, 1st August 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“The family of a Royal Military Police officer killed by a crowd of Iraqis is suing the Ministry of Defence for negligence.”
The Guardian,
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Court of Appeal has today unanimously dismissed appeals by Jane Nicklinson and Paul Lamb challenging the legal ban on voluntary euthanasia.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 31st July 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“The High Court has unanimously dismissed an application for a declaration that the so-called ‘bedroom tax’ discriminates unlawfully against disabled claimants.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 31st July 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“The headline here, as has been widely tweeted/flashed etc, is that the challenge to the bedroom tax contained in Regulation B13, Housing Benefit Regulations (both generically and specifically in relation to households with a disabled person) was unsuccessful in the Divisional Court (R(MA) Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2013] EWHC 2213 – not on Baili yet, but available to download from Adam Wagner’s site); but the Court came close to granting injunctive relief against the Secretary of State to make regulations bringing Burnip/Gorry into effect, as opposed to relying simply on a Circular. The DWP had argued that they were entitled to rely on guidance by way of Circular ‘pending a decision on whether and at what point in time to introduce regulations’ (Laws LJ’s emphasis). On that point, rarely have I read such strong words as appear in Laws LJ’s judgment at [91]-[92]. That is an ouch moment for the DWP which, I bet, will not be widely reported, so let me headline the quote here: ‘The Secretary of State has no business considering whether to introduce regulations to conform HB provision with the judgment in Gorry. He is obliged to do so.’ The only thing which stopped injunctive relief was that their drafting was ‘under consideration’ after 14 months (!).”
NearlyLegal, 3oth July 2013
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk
“A couple who spent their retirement savings on a caravan only to see it stolen were astounded when police said the travellers who are living in it could not be removed as it would breach their ‘human rights’.”
Daily Telegraph, 30th July 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The family of late locked-in syndrome sufferer Tony Nicklinson and paralysed road accident victim Paul Lamb have lost their right-to-die challenges.”
BBC News, 31st July 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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