Category: human rights

Is the European Court of Human Rights obsessively interventionist? – Andrew Tickell – UK Human Rights Blog

Posted January 23rd, 2012 in admissibility, human rights, jurisdiction, news by sally

“Marie-Bénédicte Dembour calls them ‘forgotten cases’. As Adam Wagner demonstrated in a blog post of last week, Eurosceptic newspapers have a particular interest in overlooking the European Court of Human Right’s decisions of inadmissibility, seeking to buttress claims that the Court is wildly interventionist, imposing alien ‘European’ logics on Britain with gleeful abandon.”

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UK Human Rights Blog,

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Bigamist wins ‘family life’ human rights case – Daily Telegraph

Posted January 23rd, 2012 in bigamy, deportation, families, human rights, news by sally

“A foreign drug-dealing bigamist has won the right to stay in Britain because of his human right to ‘family life’.”

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Daily Telegraph, 21st January 2012

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Extradition of murder accused to US not breach of human rights – UK Human Rights Blog

Posted January 20th, 2012 in extradition, human rights, murder, news by sally

“The European Court of Human Rights has found that there would be no breach of Article 3 ECHR (prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatment) in extraditing two men accused of murder to the US.”

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UK Human Rights Blog, 19th January 2012

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No deportation for Abu Qatada, but where are we now on torture evidence? – Professor Adam Tomkins – UK Human Rights Blog

Posted January 19th, 2012 in deportation, evidence, human rights, news, torture by sally

“On 17 January 2012 the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) handed down its judgment in Othman (Abu Qatada) v UK. In a unanimous ruling the Court held that the UK could not lawfully deport Abu Qatada to his native Jordan, overturning the House of Lords (who had unanimously come to the opposite conclusion in RB (Algeria) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2009] UKHL 10, [2010] 2 AC 110).”

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UK Human Rights Blog, 19th January 2012

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Everything’s free in America (copyrighted material not included) – UK Human Rights Blog

Posted January 19th, 2012 in copyright, extradition, human rights, news by sally

“It seems appropriate, on the day when Wikipedia shut down for 24 hours to protest against US anti-piracy legislation, to talk about piracy (in the copyright sense) and what role human rights law has to play in the perpetual battle against it.”

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UK Human Rights Blog, 18th January 2012

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Suspected terrorist may not be deported to Jordan – Strasbourg rules – UK Human Rights Blog

Posted January 17th, 2012 in deportation, evidence, human rights, news, terrorism, torture by sally

“The Strasbourg Court has ruled today that whilst diplomatic assurances may protect a suspected terrorist from torture, he cannot be deported to Jordan while there remains a real risk that evidence obtained by torture will be used against him.”

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UK Human Rights Blog, 17th January 2012

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Ruling still allows Britain to deport other foreign nationals – The Guardian

Posted January 17th, 2012 in deportation, evidence, human rights, news, torture by sally

“Although Abu Qatada has persuaded the European Court of Human Rights that he would not get a fair trial if he is sent back to Jordan, the ruling is not as serious a defeat for the British government as it might have been.”

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The Guardian, 17th January 2012

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“Whole life” sentences for murder not in breach of Convention, says Strasbourg – UK Human Rights Blog

Posted January 17th, 2012 in human rights, murder, news, sentencing by sally

“The Strasbourg Court has found three British murderers’ imprisonment for life is not inhuman or degrading and therefore not in violation of Article 3.”

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UK Human Rights Blog, 17th January 2012

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Abu Qatada deportation blocked in European court – The Guardian

Posted January 17th, 2012 in deportation, evidence, human rights, news, terrorism, torture by sally

“The European court of human rights has blocked the deportation to Jordan of Abu Qatada – who been called Osama bin Laden’s right-hand man in Europe – because he risks facing a trial based on torture-tainted evidence.”

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The Guardian, 17th January 2012

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Murderers lose appeal against whole life tariffs – BBC News

Posted January 17th, 2012 in appeals, human rights, murder, news, sentencing by sally

“Britain’s most dangerous criminals can be kept behind bars for the rest of their lives, judges at the European Court of Human Rights have ruled.”

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BBC News, 17th January 2012

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Sharia law compatible with human rights, argues leading barrister – The Guardian

Posted January 16th, 2012 in human rights, islamic law, news by sally

“A leading barrister has called for the UK to become more sharia-literate, while arguing that Islamic law can be compatible with the toughest human rights legislation.”

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The Guardian, 16th January 2012

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UK loses 3 out of 4 European human rights cases? More like 1 in 50, actually – UK Human Rights Blog

Posted January 13th, 2012 in human rights, news, statistics by sally

“It is rightly said that 95% of statistics are made up. Today’s (12 January) Daily Mail front page headline contained a typically exuberant statistical claim: Europe’s war on British justice: UK loses three out of four human rights cases, damning report reveals. According to journalist James Slack ‘Unelected Euro judges’ are mounting a ‘relentless attack on British laws laid down over centuries by Parliament’.”

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UK Human Rights Blog, 12th January 2012

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ECHR: Britain loses 3 in 4 cases at human rights court – Daily Telegraph

Posted January 12th, 2012 in courts, human rights, news, reports by sally

“Britain has lost three out of four cases taken to the European Court of Human Rights, new figures have shown.”

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Daily Telegraph, 12th January 2012

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BBC wins right to broadcast prisoner interview – BBC News

Posted January 11th, 2012 in detention, freedom of expression, human rights, media, news, public interest, terrorism by sally

“The High Court has ruled that Justice Secretary Ken Clarke was wrong to stop the BBC filming a terrorism suspect held for seven years without trial.”

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BBC News, 11th January 2012

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Is internet access a human right? – UK Human Rights Blog

Posted January 11th, 2012 in freedom of expression, human rights, internet, news by sally

“A recent United Nations Human Rights Council report examined the important question of whether internet access is a human right.”

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UK Human Rights Blog, 11th January 2012

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Are some rights to private life just not cricket? – Legal Week

Posted January 10th, 2012 in human rights, immigration, judgments, news, tribunals by sally

“Given previous poor reporting of human rights cases, alarm bells began to ring when the Sunday Telegraph recently reported student Abdullah Munawar’s appeal on human rights grounds against a refusal to grant him leave to stay in the UK, citing his playing cricket as a reason he had a private life under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.”

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Legal Week, 10th January 2012

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Private: Keep Out – Hardwicke Chambers

Posted January 10th, 2012 in human rights, news, repossession by sally

“Since the cases of Manchester CC v. Pinnock [2010] UKSC 45 and LB Hounslow v. Powell [2011] UKSC 8 it is clear that the County Court must have, and does have, the power to assess in every case whether the making of a possession order in respect of a person’s ‘home’ is ‘proportionate’ for the purposes of art.8 of the European Convention on Human Rights. However, this is in the context of a local authority land owner seeking an order for possession.”

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Hardwicke Chambers, 20th December 2011

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Why Stephen Lawrence killers were sentenced as juveniles and under old law – UK Human Rights Blog

Posted January 5th, 2012 in human rights, murder, news, sentencing, young offenders by sally

“There has been surprise, from the Daily Mail amongst others that Dobson and Norris, now in their mid-30s, were sentenced as juveniles. Curiously, they have also been sentenced under historic law dating back to around 1993, which means they cannot be sentenced under harsh new guidance for racially aggrevated crimes.”

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UK Human Rights Blog, 4th January 2012

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Smells and mosquitoes but no extra damages under the Human Rights Act – UK Human Rights Blog

Posted January 3rd, 2012 in damages, human rights, negligence, news, nuisance, water companies by sally

“An operator carrying out activities authorised by legislation is immune from common law nuisance liability unless the claimant can prove negligence. Any damages for such a nuisance will constitute ‘sufficient just satisfaction’ for the purpose of the Human Rights Act; even if breach of a Convention right is proved, no further remedy will be available.”

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UK Human Rights Blog, 2nd January 2012

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No human right to an hour’s minimum in the open air for “lifer” – Court of Appeal – UK Human Rights Blog

Posted December 21st, 2011 in appeals, human rights, misfeasance in public office, news by sally

“The Court of Appeal has decided that a failure to provide a life sentence prisoner with a minimum of one hour in the open air each day did not constitute a breach of his human rights under Article 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights (‘ECHR’).”

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UK Human Rights Blog, 20th December 2011

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