‘Police are facing calls to halt the use of facial recognition software to search for suspected criminals in public after independent analysis found matches were only correct in a fifth of cases and the system was likely to break human rights laws.’
The Guardian, 3rd July 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A devout Christian thrown off a university social work course after being accused of posting derogatory comments about gay and bisexual people on Facebook has won the latest round of a legal battle.’
The Guardian, 3rd July 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The Supreme Court will this week (3 July) hear an appeal on whether social security tribunals have the power or duty to calculate entitlement to housing benefit without making deductions for under-occupancy, where the application of regulations would breach claimants’ rights under the Human Rights Act.’
Local Government Lawyer, 2nd July 2019
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The High Court judgment in the Heathrow third runway case is arguably the most extensive judicial reasoning on current UK climate change law to date.’
Six Pump Court, 25th June 2019
Source: www.6pumpcourt.co.uk
‘A lack of funding gives councils “no excuse” for failing to meet their legal duty to children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), a court has heard.’
Rights Info, 27th June 2019
Source: rightsinfo.org
‘Police forces are pushing ahead with the use of facial recognition systems in the absence of clear laws on whether, when or how the technology should be employed, a watchdog has said.’
The Guardian, 27th June 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The parents of a gambling addict who took his own life have launched a legal bid to hold the government liable for his death, potentially opening the floodgates to multiple compensation claims citing lax regulation by the state.’
The Guardian, 28th June 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘An EU agency has highlighted the heightened risk of foreign domestic workers in the UK enduring slavery-like conditions but conceded its pan-European study of labour conditions had been impeded by “mafia networks”.’
The Guardian, 25th June 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘On Thursday 20 June, the Court of Appeal issued its open judgment in the appeal concerning the lawfulness of the grant by the UK Government of export licences for arms sales to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (“KSA”), for possible use in the conflict in Yemen. In their judgment, Sir Terence Etherton MR, Irwin LJ and Singh LJ allowed the appeal by the Campaign Against Arms Trade (“CAAT”), remitting the decision to issue said licences by the Secretary of State for International Trade for reconsideration in accordance with the correct legal approach.’
Oxford Human Rights Hub, 26th June 2019
Source: ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk
‘The government is “leaving thousands of children in limbo” and breaching their human rights by underfunding education for those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), a court will hear.’
Rights Info, 26th June 2019
Source: rightsinfo.org
‘Victims of discrimination were being denied access to justice and offenders going unchallenged as a result of a ‘failing’ legal aid system, as reported in the Justice Gap.’
Legal Voice, 21st June 2019
Source: legalvoice.org.uk
‘The Court of Appeal has rejected a challenge to the abolition of most oral permission-to-appeal hearings before it.’
Litigation Futures, 26th June 2019
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘Birmingham City Council v Afsar and Others (2019) EWHC 1560 (QB) is a case about a protest which has been carried on outside a primary school. Warby J granted interim injunctions, on the basis that the Council was likely to succeed at trial in showing that restraint on the way that protests were being conducted was justified.’
Panopticon, 20th June 2019
Source: local-government-law.11kbw.com
‘MA, BB v Secretary of State for the Home Department (The Equality and Human Rights Commission intervening) [2019] EWHC 1523.
The High Court has held that an effective Article 3 investigation by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (“PPO”) into allegations of serious physical and mental abuse in an Immigration Removal Centre requires the PPO to have powers are to compel witness attendance, hold hearings in public and ensure that the claimants have properly-funded representation to enable them to review and comment on witness evidence and provide lines of enquiry.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 19th June 2019
Source: ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘Children recruited to spy on drug dealers, gangs, terrorists and paedophiles have fewer safeguards when handled by investigators than those arrested for minor offences such as shoplifting, the high court has heard.’
The Guardian, 11th June 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘MI5 has been unlawfully holding people’s data collected through surveillance or hacking programmes, the high court has been told.’
Daily Telegraph, 11th June 2019
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘New counter-terrorism measures which could see people who travel or stay in certain areas overseas jailed for up to 10 years are a “serious abuse of civil liberties”, a campaign group has warned.’
Rights Info, 7th June 2019
Source: rightsinfo.org
‘One of Britain’s most senior judges has called into question Sajid Javid’s decision to strip Isil bride Shamima Begum of her British citizenship.’
Daily Telegraph, 9th June 2019
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Reported rapes have soared, but cases reaching court have plummeted. Our coalition of women’s groups won’t stand for it.’
The Guardian, 10th June 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
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