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admin - 21st August 2012
This week we feature news on recent education rights litigation in South Africa and India. In this piece, Chris McConnachie discusses the emergence of the education adequacy movement in South Africa, which is increasingly using litigation in an attempt to improve conditions in schools. South Africa is a pioneer in the recognition and enforcement of […]
Reuven (Ruvi) Ziegler - 17th August 2012
In her recent post, Natasha Holcroft-Emmess critiques the European Court of Human Rights Grand Chamber (GC) judgment in Scoppola (no. 3); she rightly notes that the GC has taken a step backwards in terms of protecting prisoners’ voting rights. Unbound by constraints of Strasbourg jurisprudence, I have made elsewhere ‘the case for letting prisoners vote’, arguing […]
Natasha Holcroft-Emmess - 13th August 2012
In Scoppola v Italy (No. 3) (Application no. 126/05, 22 May 2012) the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights once again engaged with the vexed issue of prisoners’ voting rights. Italian legislation permanently disenfranchised prisoners convicted of specific offences against the State and those sentenced to more than five years’ incarceration. The […]
Adelaide Remiche - 12th August 2012
On the 24thApril 2012, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) elected the new Belgian judge to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), Paul Lemmens, from an all male short list presented to PACE by the Belgian Government, in contravention of its Council of Europe obligations. Although the European Convention does […]
Claire Overman - 9th August 2012
The recent judgment of Swift v Secretary of State for Justice [2012] EWHC 2000 (QB) raises some interesting questions regarding the operation of article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights (“ECHR”). The case concerned a claim for tortious damages under s1(3)(b) Fatal Accidents Act 1976. As the claimant, the deceased’s unmarried partner, had not […]
Laura Hilly - 6th August 2012
On 24 July 2012, Professor Sandra Fredman delivered the 9th annual Joan Fitzpatrick Memorial Lecture. In light of an austere economic climate, Professor Fredman delivered a timely call for a new understanding of substantive equality that can cast light on the experience of poverty and the ways law can address it. She argued that the […]
Dennis Davis - 26th July 2012
The wave of constitutional democracy, which was generated during the latter part of the previous century, has ensured that the enforcement of socio-economic rights have become central to contemporary constitutional debates. At the most obvious level of justification for the inclusion of these rights within a constitution lies the argument that they enhance democracy by […]
Timothy Endicott - 25th July 2012
The Oxford Human Rights Hub Blog officially launches this week. Timothy Endicott, Dean of the Oxford Faculty of Law, expresses his support and reflects on the Hub’s potential to advance the understanding of human rights. I would like to add my welcome, and my congratulations to the director, Sandra Fredman, and the editorial team of […]