“The Home Secretary Theresa May was lambasted last week for an inaccurate reference to cats, but the more general view expressed by her and most of the media that the Human Rights Act is routinely getting in the way of national security interests is also arguably misleading.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 12th October 2011
Source: http://ukhumanrightsblog.com
“With good reason, the supreme court has declared unlawful a ban on under-21-year-old spouses coming to the UK.”
The Guardian, 13th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“An immigration rule designed to deter forced marriages, which prevented the granting of leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom as a spouse if either of the parties to the marriage was aged under 21, was an unjustified interference with the right to family life.”
WLR Daily, 12th October 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The British Army wilfully used illegal methods of interrogation against Iraqi prisoners after military leaders ignored advice from their top lawyer, it was claimed last night.”
Daily Telegraph, 13th October 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
HM Advocate v P [2011] UKSC 44; [2011] WLR (D) 290
“There was no absolute rule that evidence which had been obtained from an accused who had been questioned by police when he had not been given access to legal advice, but which existed independently of his answers, was inadmissible.”
WLR Daily, 6th October 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“A government ban on non-EU foreign spouses under the age of 21 entering the UK is unlawful, judges have ruled.”
BBC News, 12th October 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Parts of a proposed civil rights law threaten the UK’s compliance with human rights obligations and infringe on individuals’ rights, Parliament’s Human Rights Joint Committee has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 11th October 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“The founding president of the UK’s Supreme Court, Lord Phillips, has defended the Human Rights Act as he announces his retirement.”
BBC News, 11th October 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The UK Supreme Court has backed the right of people in Scotland to claim damages for the asbestos-related condition pleural plaques.”
BBC News, 12th October 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A proposal to retain DNA samples taken from people who have been arrested but not charged with a crime for up to five years has come under criticism from the Joint Committee on Human Rights.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 10th October 2011
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“The Conservatives want to replace the Human Rights Act with a British version. Liberty director Shami Chakrabarti and Tory MP Dominic Raab go head to head.”
The Guardian, 7th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Reliance on evidence that emerged from questioning a person without access to a lawyer did not invariably breach the right to a fair trial under Article 6. The principle established by Salduz v Turkey (36391/02) (2009) 49 EHRR 19 did not apply to questioning outside a police station.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 7th October 2011
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“In principle the line as to when access to legal advice had to be provided before a person suspected of a criminal offence was questioned by police should be drawn as from the moment when he had been taken into police custody, or his freedom of action had been significantly curtailed.”
WLR Daily, 6th October 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The Home Secretary’s plan to retain the DNA of people charged but then cleared of offences may breach human rights law, a group of MPs and peers have said.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th October 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“As we await the latest court judgment, Marina Sergides analyses the legal and social aspects of the Dale Farm case.”
Garden Court Chambers Blog, 6th October 2011
Source: www.gclaw.wordpress.com
“The Attorney General has reignited Tory tensions over the Human Rights Act by insisting it had been beneficial for Britain and condemning the ‘hysterical untruths’ printed by newspapers about its perverse effects. Dominic Grieve was speaking after Theresa May, the Home Secretary, mounted an attack on the Act, telling the Manchester conference that a Bolivian immigrant had successfully resisted deportation because of his pet cat.”
The Independent, 6th October 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The home secretary is wrong,the decision not to deport an illegal immigrant had nothing to do with the pet cat.”
The Guardian, 4th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Related link: Theresa May’s twisted tale of a Bolivian’s cat
“Britain’s immigration rules are to be amended to curb the ability of foreign criminals to resist deportation by invoking their right to a family life under the Human Rights Act, the home secretary, Theresa May, is to announce on Tuesday.”
The Guardian, 3rd October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The hooding of prisoners or terror suspects by Britain’s armed forces has been totally banned following a High Court judgement.”
The Independent, 4th October 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The Home Secretary Theresa May’s has told the Sunday Telegraph that she would ‘like to see the Human Rights Act go’.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 2nd October 2011
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
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