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Posts on the UK Human Rights Blog that you may have missed in the last week: Case law - Claims against the police still difficult, and no help from human rights law May 17, 2010 (reprinted via the...
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Calls for murder law reform may be ignored
Keir Starmer The Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer QC, has stated his support for a reform of the law of homicide that would see the introduction of different degrees of murder in this...
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The Stig revealed: why, and does it matter?
British Broadcasting Corporation v Harpercollins Publishers Ltd & Anor [2010] EWHC 2424 (Ch) – Read judgment As has been widely reported, the BBC has failed in its attempts to obtain an injunction...
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Gurkha defeat in claim for equal pension rights
No victory this time R (British Gurkha Welfare Society and ors) v Ministry of Defence [2010] EWCA Civ 1098 - read judgment The Court of Appeal has rejected a fresh attempt, based on Article 14 of the...
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When, and when not, to prosecute victims of human trafficking
R v M(L) and others [2010] EWCA Crim 2327; [2010] WLR(D) 266 – Read judgment The Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) has provided further guidance to prosecutors on whether or not they should bring...
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Courts reluctant to intervene over care for elderly and disabled
Updated | R (McDonald) v Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, [2010] EWCA Civ 1109 - read judgment The Court of Appeal has held that a local authority was entitled to reduce the care package...
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NHS must treat patients despite their personal injury settlements
R (Booker) v NHS Oldham and Direct Line Insurance PLC [2010] EWHC 2593 (Admin)- read judgment The High Court has held that where a claimant agrees a damages settlement that includes an indemnity to...
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Protecting child claimants from “fortune hunters and thieves”
Updated | JXF (a child) v York Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust [2010] EWHC 2800 (QB) – Read judgment Mr Justice Tugendhat has held that the High Court should withhold the identity of a child claimant...
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The Redfern Inquiry: the latest investigation into the removal and retention...
November saw the publication of the report of the Redfern Inquiry into human tissue analysis in UK nuclear facilities (read the report, here). The inquiry was the latest in a number of investigations...
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Unlawful mental health detention – who is to blame?
TTM (By his Litigation Friend TM) v London Borough of Hackney, East London NHS Foundation Trust; Secretary of State for Health – Read judgment The Court of Appeal has ruled that the local authority,...
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Does “bringing rights home” mean bringing problems home too?
McCaughey & Anor, Re Application for Judicial Review [2011] UKSC 20 (18 May 2011)- Read judgment The Supreme Court has followed the European Court of Human Rights in ruling that an inquest into the...
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Should more trials be held in secret? Part 2: A Special Advocate’s comment
This is an expanded version of a comment made on Adam Wagner’s post: Should more trials be held in secret? Our recent post highlights the Government’s consultation on the Justice and Security Green...
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The democratic legitimacy of human rights
Why should we bother with the European Convention on Human Rights? Many of those that would never contemplate leaving the ECHR still question whether we should abide by controversial decisions such as...
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Dignity, Death and Deprivation of Liberty: Human Rights in the Court of...
What: Dignity, Death and Deprivation of Liberty: Human Rights in the Court of Protection When: 6pm on Wednesday 10th October 2012 You are invited to join 1 Crown Office Row for an event to mark the...
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VIDEO: Dignity, Death and Deprivation of Liberty – Human Rights in the Court...
Last month 1 Crown Office Row hosted a fascinating panel debate on the Court of Protection and the incredibly difficult issues surrounding assisted dying. The panel included Philip Havers QC, the...
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“Lamentable”, “egregious” and “wholly indefensible”: High Court lambasts...
Northamptonshire County Council v AS, KS and DS [2015] EWFC 7 – read judgment A Family Division judge has awarded damages under the Human Rights Act against a local authority in what he described as an...
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Grayling’s legacy, naked rambling and the benefits cap: It’s the Round-up!
Laura Profumo brings us up to speed with the latest human rights happenings. In the News “It seems hard to believe that Grayling will remain Lord Chancellor for long”. Joshua Rozenberg delivered a...
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Je suis James: Pianist finally allowed to tell his story of sexual abuse
Guardian: James Rhodes and friends including Benedict Cumberbatch outside Court James Rhodes v OPO (by his Litigation Friend BHM) and another, [2015] UKSC 32 The Supreme Court has handed down its...
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Phone hacking: massive privacy damages
Gulati v. MGN Ltd [2015] EWHC 1482 (Ch), Mann J – judgment here For some years in the early and mid 2000s, a routine form of news-gathering in the Mirror Group was phone hacking – listening to...
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The Long Shadow of the Troubles
Photo: The Guardian In Finucane’s (Geraldine) Application [2015] NIQB 57 the Northern Ireland High Court dismissed a challenge to the decision by the British Government to carry out a ‘review’ by Sir...
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