“Family members from outside Europe who come to join close relatives settled in Britain are expected to be denied access to welfare benefits for up to five years under further plans to cut annual net migration to be detailed on Wednesday.”
The Guardian, 13th July 2011
source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Four British Christians with religious discrimination claims at the European Court of Human Rights have been backed by the UK’s equality watchdog.”
BBC News, 12th July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A former police officer is taking his legal battle over a health trust’s refusal to fund obesity surgery to the Court of Appeal.”
The Independent, 11th July 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Britain was an occupying power following the invasion of Iraq and failed to carry out effective investigations into the killing of civilians, the European court of human rights has ruled in a landmark judgment.”
The Guardian, 7th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Related links: AL-JEDDA v. THE UNITED KINGDOM – 27021/08 [2011] ECHR 1092 (7 July 2011)
AL-SKEINI AND OTHERS v. THE UNITED KINGDOM – 55721/07 [2011] ECHR 1093 (7 July 2011)
“Taxpayers are funding almost £70,000 a day on legal aid for prisoners after a 25-fold increase in the last decade.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th July 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A former prima ballerina left disabled after a stroke has lost her supreme court battle for an overnight carer to give her ‘dignity and independence’.”
The Guardian, 6th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Metropolitan police officers illegally detained children as young as 11 for more than six hours during a ‘kettling’ operation against tuition fee protesters, the high court has been told.”
The Guardian, 5th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A former ballerina from west London left disabled by a stroke is to learn the outcome of her legal battle to get an overnight carer.”
BBC News, 6th July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A British judge has been appointed to the highest post at the European Court of Human Rights.”
BBC News, 5th July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Human Rights Act applies in the UK. That much is clear. Whether it applies outside of UK territory is a whole other question, and one for which we may have a new answer when the grand chamber of the European court of human rights (ECtHR) gives judgment in the case of Al-Skeini and others v the United Kingdom & Al-Jedda v the United Kingdom this week.”
The Guardian, 4th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Home Office is to review a central plank of human rights law in an admission that it is causing serious damage to Britain’s border controls.”
Daily Telegraph, 2nd July 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A high court judge has blocked attempts by families of soldiers killed in Iraq to seek compensation from the government under human rights legislation.”
The Guardian, 30th June 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Short speech to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg
Attorney General Dominic Grieve QC MP
Attorney General’s Office, 23rd June 2011
Source: www.attorneygeneral.gov.uk
“Undesirable or dangerous immigrants who may face ill-treatment at home cannot be deported, no matter how bad their crimes in Britain, human rights judges have ruled.”
Daily Telegraph, 28th June 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“In national security deportation and exclusion cases before the Special Immigration Appeals Commission foreign nationals were entitled to the standard of procedural fairness contained in the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (Procedure) Rules 2003, neither more nor less.”
WLR Daily, 21st June 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The biggest winding back of access to justice in the legal aid system’s history is not getting the attention it deserves.”
The Guardian, 22nd June 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The UK’s extradition arrangements with the US and the EU must be overhauled to better protect rights of individuals, a committee of MPs and peers is arguing.”
BBC News, 22nd June 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“British Gurkhas are taking their battle for equal pension rights to the European Court of Human Rights, it was announced today.”
The Independent, 20th June 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Miguel v State of Trinidad and Tobago [2011] UKPC 14; [2011] WLR (D) 198
“A constitutional provision which exempted both existing laws and enactments which altered existing laws from its protection did not extend to an enactment which altered a law that had existed before the Constitution came into force but had since been abolished. It followed that a mandatory sentence of death for a murder conviction in Trinidad and Tobago under the ‘arrestable offence murder’ rule in section 2A of the Criminal Law Act, based on an earlier-abolished ‘felony murder’ rule, was outside the exemption and so unconstitutional.”
WLR Daily, 15th June 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Please note that once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“A number of senior ministers are ready to back calls for changes in the law which could prevent foreign criminals from claiming the right to a family life to avoid being deported, it can be revealed.”
Daily Telegraph, 19th June 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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