‘Last week, the Home Office lost a case over its controversial definition of “torture,” which the High Court ruled was unlawful.’
RightsInfo, 16th October 2017
Source: rightsinfo.org
‘Hundreds of victims of torture have been wrongly locked up in immigration detention centres, a high court judge has ruled, following a challenge by seven survivors of serious abuse.’
The Guardian, 10th October 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal today published the long-awaited judgment on human rights firm Leigh Day and three of its lawyers.’
Law Society's Gazette, 26th September 2017
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Sadistic killer Jason Marshall, who was filmed murdering a man during a bondage sex session, has been jailed for 39 years.’
BBC News, 26th September 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A high court judge has said she is “deeply concerned” about the behaviour of Amber Rudd for failing to release a survivor of torture from detention despite repeated court orders requiring her to do so.’
The Guardian, 23rd August 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The Foreign Office is asking the high court to sit in secret when former foreign secretary Jack Straw faces a damages claim over his alleged role in the abduction and torture of a Libyan dissident and his pregnant wife.’
The Guardian, 29th June 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The international director of the campaign group Cage has pleaded not guilty to a terror offence after refusing to give police the passcode to his mobile phone at Heathrow airport last year.’
The Guardian, 20th June 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Two people have been found guilty of murdering a vulnerable man who was tortured for months and forced to eat his own testicle.’
BBC News, 19th June 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Two “barbaric” men have each been given life sentences for beating a couple and dousing them with boiling water during a burglary at their home.’
BBC News, 3rd April 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Seven victims of torture who have been locked up in immigration detention are at the high court, challenging as unlawful a government policy that allows some torture survivors to be imprisoned.’
The Guardian, 7th March 2017
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The government has been accused of attempting to bury the truth about Britain’s role in the CIA’s extraordinary rendition process by seeking to have a case, brought by two men detained by the US, heard in secret.’
The Guardian, 5th March 2017
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘British prisons are holding child inmates in solitary confinement in an alleged breach of UN torture rules and British law, The Independent has found. Lawyers in one case have launched legal action against the Government in the High Court.’
The Independent, 21st February 2017
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A human rights lawyer who brought abuse claims against UK troops after the Iraq War has been struck off for misconduct.’
BBC News, 2nd February 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A disgraced human rights lawyer accused of hounding British troops earned his firm more than £1.6m from an improper deal carving up fees from pursuing abuse claims against British troops, a tribunal has heard.’
Daily Telegraph, 31st February 2017
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘This blog is the first covering the series of three important judgments given on Tuesday by the Supreme Court on issues arising out of the War on Terror and the United Kingdom’s interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan. Belhaj and another v Straw and others) and Rahmatullah (No 1) v Ministry of Defence and another [2017] UKSC 3 involved the alleged complicity of United Kingdom officials in allegedly tortious acts of the UK or other states overseas. The torts alleged include unlawful detention and rendition, torture or cruel and inhuman treatment and assault.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 20th January 2017
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘In a week when Supreme Court watchers expected to dissect the Brexit judgment, the Justices instead handed down their long awaited decision in the joined cases of Belhaj & Ors v Straw & Ors; Rahmatullah (No 1) v Ministry of Defence & Ors [2017] UKSC 3. These appeals both involved unsuccessful attempts to strike out claims based on allegations of UK complicity in international wrongs – including torture and rendition and arbitrary detention – on the basis that our domestic courts should not exercise their jurisdiction in either case.’
UK Constitutional Law Association, 19th January 2017
Source: www.ukconstitutionallaw.org
‘Ex-Foreign Secretary Jack Straw faces being sued over allegations of abduction and torture brought by a former Libyan dissident.’
BBC News, 17th January 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A man who raped and tortured a woman while keeping her prisoner for three days last February has been jailed for 23 years.’
The Guardian, 10th January 2017
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Two brothers who beat and tortured another pair of boys when they were aged 10 and 11 will remain anonymous for the rest of their lives, a court ruled on Friday.’
The Guardian, 9th December 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Hundreds of asylum seekers who are detained in UK immigration centres could be released after a high court judge ordered the government to review its policy on incarcerated torture survivors.’
The Guardian, 21st November 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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