R ((AAA) Syria and Ors) v Secretary of State for the Home Department UKSC 42 The Government’s flagship policy of removing individual asylum seekers to Rwanda for their claims to be decided und...
https://ukhumanrightsblog.com/2023/11/15/unanimous-supreme-court-rwanda-removals-are-unlawful/
Conor Monighan brings us the latest updates in human rights law In the News: A landmark piece of legislation was passed this week, with significant consequences for civil liberties. The Coronavir...
https://ukhumanrightsblog.com/2020/03/30/the-round-up-terrorism-the-parole-board-and-covid-19/
Conor Monighan reviews the Administrative Law Bar Association (ALBA) Summer Conference 2018 This year’s ALBA conference featured an impressive list of speakers and they did not disappoint. Dele...
https://ukhumanrightsblog.com/2018/09/13/alba-summer-conference-2018-a-review-part-1/
In a landmark moment for women’s rights, the Irish electorate has voted in favour of abolishing the 8th Amendment by a stunning two-thirds majority of 1,429,981 votes to 723,632. Whilst abortio...
R (o.t.a. Western Sahara Campaign UK) v. HMRC and DEFRA, Court of Justice of the European Union, opinion of Advocate-General Wathelet, 10 January 2018 – read here The A-G has just invited the ...
Four Seasons Holdings v. Brownlie UKSC 80, 19 December 2017, read judgment Professor Ian Brownlie Q.C., an eminent international lawyer, and members of his family were killed in a road accid...
Dover District Council v. CPRE Kent UKSC 79, 6 December 2016, read judgment The Supreme Court has just confirmed that this local authority should have given reasons if it wished to grant permis...
https://ukhumanrightsblog.com/2017/12/20/reasons-and-planners-again-supreme-court/
R (o.t.a. Oakley) v. South Cambridgeshire District Council EWCA Civ 71, 15 February 2017, read judgment There is, I am glad to say, an insistence these days in the Court of Appeal that the gi...
https://ukhumanrightsblog.com/2017/02/21/thinking-about-reasons-again/
In the news The oversight of the conduct of British soldiers in Iraq has been subject of two recent developments. The first is political, as Prime Minister Theresa May has renewed criticism of...
R (o.t.a. CPRE Kent) v. Dover District Council EWCA Civ 936, 14 September 2016, read judgment The Court of Appeal has just given us a robust vindication of the importance of giving proper rea...
https://ukhumanrightsblog.com/2016/09/16/hard-cases-need-better-reasons/
R (o.t.a. Western Sahara Campaign UK) v. HMRC and DEFRA EWHC 2898 (Admin) Blake J, 19 October 2015 read judgment Not primarily about migration, but a case arising out of the long-running conf...
https://ukhumanrightsblog.com/2015/10/23/western-sahara-goes-to-europe/
A Political Decision Disguised as Legal Argument: Opinion of CJEU 2/13 – and other things Over the summer an interesting article was published by Graham Butler, on his interview with David ...
Quite a lot has happened in the 6 months since my post here on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). TTIP is a proposed trade agreement between the US and the EU, with negot...
The Supreme Court of the United States has decided that same-sex couples have a constitutionally protected right to marry. In the history of American jurisprudence, there are a handful of cases w...
This week’s Round-up is brought to you by Alex Wessely. In the news: Military chiefs have criticised the influence of Human Rights law in a report published this week, arguing that the “need ...