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Reuven (Ruvi) Ziegler - 30th June 2020
Tel Aviv’s mayor, Ron Huldai, announced on 21 June 2020 that the city will revise its digital registers, enabling same-sex couples to register their relationship. They would then be eligible for housing allowances and registration would ease enrolment of their children in publicly funded day-cares and schools. Opposite-sex couples who either cannot get married in […]
Smita Gupta and Sehaj Singh Cheema - 30th June 2020
The Indian Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change released a draft Environmental Impact Assessment Notification, 2020 (hereinafter ‘the 2020 notification’) in March 2020. This will succeed the previous 2006 Notification, which constituted the regulatory framework for environmental impact assessments (EIA) in India. Far from being a step forward from its predecessor, the 2020 notification […]
Jefferi Hamzah Sendut - 30th June 2020
In Secretary of State for Work and Pensions v Johnson & Ors [2020] EWCA Civ 778, the England & Wales Court of Appeal took the uncommon step of holding an executive decision unlawful for Wednesbury irrationality. Johnson highlights that irrationality is not merely a desperate ground of last resort for judicial review applicants. The case […]
Louise Reyntjens - 30th June 2020
On 25 June 2020, the Strasbourg Court delivered judgement in the case of Ghoumid and others v France. An important question in the case was whether the French administrative measure of citizenship deprivation constituted a punishment in the sense of Article 4, protocol 7 ECHR. The applicants argued that their deprivation of citizenship constituted a […]
Alix Schulz - 29th June 2020
In a recent decision, the German Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof – BGH) ruled that the newly introduced section 45b and section 22(3) of the German Civil Status Act (Personenstandsgesetz – PStG) only applied to persons with a biological intersex condition and that “merely perceived intersexuality” was not covered by these provisions. The court thereby […]
andré douglas pond cummings - 27th June 2020
State sponsored killing of unarmed black men is a deeply rooted historical tradition in the United States. Those that have expressed shock, surprise or even astonishment at the ruthless police killing of George Floyd by former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin or the police execution of Rayshard Brooks by then Atlanta police officer Garrett Rolfe, […]
Paras Ahuja and Rahul Garg - 25th June 2020
On 19 May 2020, the Parliament of Hungary passed the controversial T/9934-Amendment Bill [“Amendment”], amending Act I of 2010, Civil Registration Procedure [“Act”]. The Act lays down the procedure for national registration and certification of births, deaths and marriages based on one’s gender. Article 44(3) of the Act requires registration of names based on one’s […]
Alvin Attalo - 23rd June 2020
The Rafiki case concerns the alleged violation of the right to freedom of expression due to the censorship of a film with scenes depicting women in a same-sex relationship. Upholding the censorship, the Kenyan High Court failed to apply a proportionality analysis – – sanctioning an unjustified limitation of the right to freedom of expression […]
- 23rd June 2020
Courts around the world have suspended open court hearings due to lockdown extensions amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. In May 2020, a Nigerian man who appeared remotely from prison was sentenced to death over a Zoom call by the High Court in Lagos. In a country that has some of the harshest and most regressive death […]
- 23rd June 2020
The implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for sexual and reproductive rights (SRR) protection are becoming increasingly apparent, with state lockdowns and the re-routing of resources leaving many without access to sexual and reproductive healthcare (SRH). In a joint statement, the International Planned Parenthood Federation and the European Parliamentary Forum for SRR expressed concerns over the […]
Madhulika T - 23rd June 2020
In a judgment with wide-ranging consequences, the Rajasthan High Court (“High Court”) in India has accepted the defence of Pre-Menstrual Syndrome (“PMS”) induced insanity into the criminal jurisprudence of India. At face value, it could be argued that this is a progressive development in the law. However, a close inspection of the judgement and the evidence […]
Anirudh Mandagere - 18th June 2020
America stands at the crossroads. The tragic death of George Floyd has shone a spotlight on police brutality against African-Americans. Attention has shifted to reforming the police, and punishing misconduct. A bill has been introduced in the US Congress to end the prohibition on suing police officers. Entitled the ‘Ending Qualified Immunity Act’, the proposed […]