“The home secretary has ordered that the radical Islamist cleric Abu Qatada be deported to Jordan at the end of the month.”
The Guardian, 17th April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Last-minute negotiations over the text of controversial British plans to reform the European court of human rights (ECHR) are focusing on the criteria for screening out cases and the leeway each country is permitted to interpret convention laws differently.”
The Guardian, 17th April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The prison authorities had acted unlawfully in restricting childcare resettlement leave to prisoners who were within two years of their release date and had been allocated to ‘open’ conditions.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 16th April 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“This piece asks whether, in the light of UK proposals for the reform of the ECtHR, and in the wake of the outcry in the UK over the Qatada decision (Othman v UK), the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) is taking an approach that looks like one of appeasement of certain signatory states.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 17th April 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Unelected judges do not take the views of politicians seriously enough in the increasingly ‘ferocious’ debate about human rights, an academic report suggests today.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th April 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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“It has been a week of victories for the UK government in deportation cases in the European Court of Human Rights. On the same day as the ECtHR found that Abu Hamza and four others could be extradited to the US on terrorism charges, it also rejected a case of a man facing deportation despite having lived in the UK since the age of three.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 15th April 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Judges have fired a warning shot against Theresa May’s plan to stop foreign criminals abusing human rights laws.”
Daily Telegraph, 15th April 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s legal advisers have secured a European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruling that will see the extradition of five alleged terrorists, prompting the lawyer representing three of them to slam the judgment.”
The Lawyer, 10th April 2012
Source: www.thelawyer.com
“The European Court of Human Rights (Fourth Section), sitting as a Chamber, has found that five men accused of serious terrorist activities can be extradited from the UK to the US to face trial.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 10th April 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“After a ruling allowing the extradition of five terror suspects, including Abu Hamza and Babar Ahmad, to the US, the barrister and Liberal Democrat peer says any appeal will be thrown out.”
Daily Telegraph, 10th April 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“In the wake of France’s apparently unencumbered expulsion of individuals on public interest grounds there has been a fresh outcry from the press about the shackles imposed by the Human Rights Convention on the UK authorities which other signatory states seem to ignore with impunity.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 7th April 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Abu Hamza, the radical cleric who became the face of violent extremism in Britain, can be extradited to the US to face terrorism charges, the European court of human rights has ruled.”
The Guardian, 10th April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Civil liberties and the coalition have been happily filling the political pages this week. The damning conclusion of the Joint Committee on Human Rights that there is no evidence to justify expanding closed proceedings (expertly dissected by Rosalind English earlier in the week) vied for column inches with leaks that the Government planned to introduce ‘real time’ monitoring of how we use the internet in the interests of national security.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 6th April 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Where adults have capacity under the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA 2005), does the ‘great safety net’ of the High Court’s inherent jurisdiction still exist to guard them from the effect on their decision making of undue influence, coercion, duress etc? In its judgment handed down on 28 March 2012, the Court of Appeal confirmed that it does.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 6th April 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“New immigration rules are to be introduced to make it more difficult for foreign criminals to resist deportation by invoking their right to a family life under the European convention on human rights.”
The Guardian, 8th April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Garden Court Prison Law Team presents the third issue of its ‘Prison Law Bulletin’.”
Garden Court Chambers, 5th April 2012
Source: www.gcprisonlaw.wordpress.com
“The Bar Council, which represents barristers in England and Wales, has called for the Government to amend further the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA) to protect civil liberties and open justice.”
The Bar Council, 4th April 2012
Source: www.barcouncil.org.uk
“Government proposals to extend the use of secret hearings in cases where evidence might compromise national security are a radical departure from the UK’s ‘traditions of open justice and fairness’, MPs and peers said today.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 4th April 2012
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“The Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights has now responded to the Government’s consultation on the proposals set out in their Justice and Security Green Paper Cm 8194. The idea is to extend ‘closed material procedures’ so as to be available in all civil proceedings, i.e. not just in some highly restricted national security contexts such as deportation appeals before SIAC (the Special Immigration Appeals Commission), control orders, and their successor regime known as TPIMs.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 4th April 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
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