“A former postal worker has been awarded undisclosed compensation after an employment tribunal ruled he had faced discrimination.”
The Independent, 31st July 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Two high court judges have dismissed a fresh attempt by the radical Islamist preacher Abu Qatada to be released from a maximum-security prison on bail pending his deportation back to Jordan.”
The Guardian, 31st July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“For many insolvency practitioners (in the wider sense), the European Convention on Human Rights (‘ECHR’) and the Human Rights Act 1998 (‘HRA’) are pieces of legislation having little impact upon day to day insolvency practice.”
Hardwicke Chambers, 27th July 2012
Source: www.hardwicke.co.uk
“The judgment in the #twitterJoketrial is an important one for Paul Chambers who has been acquitted and can now get on with his life without the stain of criminal conviction hanging over his head.”
Charon QC, 28th July 2012
Source: www.charonqc.wordpress.com
“Charon QC” is the blogging pseudonym of Mike Semple Piggot, editor of insitelaw newswire.
“The famous ‘Twitter joke’ conviction of Paul Chambers has been overturned on appeal, bringing welcome clarity to what is and what is not an offence of this type. On discovering a week before he was due to take a flight that the airport was closed due to adverse weather conditions, he tweeted that ‘I am blowing the airport sky high!!’ unless the situation was resolved by the time of his flight. He was convicted of sending a message of a ‘menacing character’, but has had the conviction quashed on appeal, on the basis that, as it was a joke, it was not of a menacing character.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 27th July 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Killers and rapists serving long jail terms could be released earlier following a High Court ruling that their strict parole terms may breach their human rights.”
Daily Telegraph, 27th July 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Monday night’s fascinating seminar on Article 9, ‘Outlawing God’, saw Dinah Rose QC, John Bowers QC, Dr Evan Harris (Liberal Democrat former MP) and Rabbi Michael Laitner (solicitor and Orthodox rabbi) square off over the relationship of the courts to religious belief and believers, refereed (and sometimes stoked) by Joshua Rozenberg in the chair.“
UK Human Rights Blog, 25th July 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Swift v. Secretary of State for Justice [2012] EWHC 2000 (QB) Eady J, read judgment. This decision involves the intersection of Articles 8 (family) and 14 (discrimination) of the ECHR with the law governing who can recover damages for the death of a relative. This law is the Fatal Accidents Act 1976 (for the text see [10] of the judgment – embarrassingly, the one freely available on the internet is out of date). One does not to think for very long before realising that the FAA is underpinned by an idea that one ought to respect the rights of the family, and to pay the family when one has negligently caused the death of a family member. But like all such laws, there is the problem of where to stop – where does the family stop for these purposes?”
UK Human Rights Blog, 24th July 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“A father who was denied access to his children for three years because it upset their mother suffered a breach of his parental rights, the Court of Appeal ruled yesterday.”
Daily Telegraph, 25th July 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Pre-emptive arrests, confinement by kettling and the gathering of personal data give police officers ‘excessive and disproportionate’ control over public protests, a report by a coalition of police monitoring groups has warned.”
The Guardian, 24th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Women who say they were let down by the Metropolitan police when they reported rape and sexual assault, including two who were attacked by the taxi driver John Worboys, are suing the force. The women are attempting to establish that police who fail to investigate such crimes properly are violating victims’ human rights.”
The Guardian, 20th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Jeremy Bamber, who murdered five members of his family, have been granted an appeal by the Grand Chamber of Europe’s human rights court.”
Daily Telegraph, 19th July 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Just over a week since far-reaching new immigration rules took effect – which will permanently separate many British citizens or settled residents from their non-European spouses, children and ageing relatives – the home secretary has suffered a severe defeat in the supreme court. In the case of Alvi [2012] UKSC 33, handed down today, the court struck down a previous attempt by the Home Office to introduce substantive immigration requirements through the back door of policy, guidance or instructions, rather than in the body of the immigration rules themselves.”
The Guardian, 18th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Last week, a number of media commentators, politicians and others sought to subvert the second consultation of the Bill of Rights Commission. This consultation invites views on a number of key issues that form part of the Commission’s mandate. In the Daily Mail’s correspondent’s view, the Commission has committed an appalling transgression by asking potential respondents whether the UK Bill of Rights should include additional rights, referring amongst other things to socio-economic rights. This is echoed by the Sun which argues that the Commission has ‘suggested’ (which it clearly has not) that ‘all Brits be given handouts as a birth right’, and the Daily Express which suggests ‘Spongers can Sue to Claim Benefits’.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 17th July 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“The UK Border Agency has reacted with fury to a court ruling allowing a Sudanese asylum seeker who raped a 12-year-old girl to remain in Britain.”
The Independent, 15th July 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The government has ‘painted itself into a corner’ over its refusal to grant prisoners’ voting rights, according to Europe’s most senior human rights official.”
The Guardian, 15th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The UK must change its arms export policy to prevent weapons and other military equipment being sold to authoritarian regimes because the Arab spring has shown the system is fundamentally flawed, a Commons report warns.”
The Guardian, 13th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“EU law is based on a central principle of mutual confidence. It therefore flies in the face of this trust to impose a legal duty on one member state to monitor whether another Member State was complying with its obligations under that law, including its obligation to respect fundamental human rights.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 11th July 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“The Commission on a UK Bill of Rights has today (11 July) published a second Consultation Paper.”
Ministry of Justice, 11th July 2012
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“Last year, the troubled Commission on a Bill of Rights consulted the public on whether the UK needed a new human rights instrument. Many, including me, commented that the consultation document was a little sparse on detail. In any event, the consultation closed in November 2011.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 11th July 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
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