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The Decriminalisation of Marital Rape: How India Continues to Refuse Justice to its Married Women

The Decriminalisation of Marital Rape: How India Continues to Refuse Justice to its Married Women

India, United Nations, Abortion, Access to Justice, Constitutions and Human Rights, Gender, Gender Based Violence, Human Dignity, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Health, Role of the Judiciary, Sexual and Reproductive Rights

India is disappointingly one of the fewest countries in the world today that explicitly decriminalises marital ...

Taken for a Ride, Again: Deliveroo Riders in the Supreme Court

Taken for a Ride, Again: Deliveroo Riders in the Supreme Court

European Convention on Human Rights, International Labour Organization, United Kingdom, Access to Justice, Business and Human Rights, Immigration and Asylum, Labour Rights, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to work, Role of the Judiciary, Standard of Review

Last week’s ruling in Independent Workers Union of Great Britain v Central Arbitration Committee came as a great ...

Balancing Workers’ Rights and Organisational Changes: The Gray Areas of Section 9A

Balancing Workers’ Rights and Organisational Changes: The Gray Areas of Section 9A

India, Access to Justice, Business and Human Rights, Labour Rights, Right to work, Role of the Judiciary, Standard of Review

Section 9A of India's Industrial Disputes Act 1947 aims to strike a delicate balance between protecting workers' ...

In Defence of Democracy: The Pakistani Supreme Court’s Decision Against Military Trials of Civilians

In Defence of Democracy: The Pakistani Supreme Court’s Decision Against Military Trials of Civilians

Pakistan, Access to Justice, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Right to Freedom of Assembly, Role of the Judiciary

The arrest of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan in May led to a wave of protests by his supporters. The ...

Bringing the Right to Die to the British Isles (Part II): The Cautionary Experience of Australia’s Northern Territory

Bringing the Right to Die to the British Isles (Part II): The Cautionary Experience of Australia’s Northern Territory

Australia, United Kingdom, Right to Life

Part I of this blog discussed the legality of assisted dying in the Isle of Man at present and the proposed ...

Bringing the Right to Die to the British Isles (Part I): The Isle of Man’s Proposed Assisted Dying Regime

Bringing the Right to Die to the British Isles (Part I): The Isle of Man’s Proposed Assisted Dying Regime

Australia, United Kingdom, Right to Life

On 31 October 2023, a bill that would legalise assisted dying for the first time in the British Isles passed its ...

A Potential Avenue for Justice: The Possibility of International Criminal Responsibility for Gender-Based Violence caused by Climate Change

A Potential Avenue for Justice: The Possibility of International Criminal Responsibility for Gender-Based Violence caused by Climate Change

Convention on Discrimination against Women, Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, Uganda, United Nations, Environment, Gender, Human Dignity, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to healthy environment

Climate change is leading to the rapid degradation of land, forcing communities to abandon their homes in search ...

Museums and Missiles: Russia’s Attack on Ukrainian Heritage Highlights the Need to Protect Cultural Rights

Museums and Missiles: Russia’s Attack on Ukrainian Heritage Highlights the Need to Protect Cultural Rights

European Convention on Human Rights, Rome Statute, Russia, Ukraine, United Nations, Conflict and Human Rights, Constitutions and Human Rights, Cultural rights, Right against Torture, Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression, Right to Life,

Since Russian troops invaded Ukraine in February 2022, they have bombed, defaced, and looted sites of cultural ...

The Supreme Court’s Rwanda Judgment: What Now for the Government?

The Supreme Court’s Rwanda Judgment: What Now for the Government?

European Convention on Human Rights, United Kingdom, Access to Justice, Conflict and Human Rights, Constitutions and Human Rights, Immigration and Asylum, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Life, Role of the Judiciary, , Standard of Review

All eyes were on the Supreme Court last Wednesday when it handed down its ruling on the lawfulness of the ...

Combatting Femicide in Latin America: The Urgent Need for a Stronger Legal Framework

Combatting Femicide in Latin America: The Urgent Need for a Stronger Legal Framework

Argentina, Chile, Latin America, Mexico, Nicaragua, Access to Justice, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Gender, Human Dignity, Intersectionality, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination

In March 2023, an Argentine court convicted two men for the 2016 rape and murder of 16-year-old Lucia Perez, a ...

Parental Leave, Equality and Dignity in South Africa: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

Parental Leave, Equality and Dignity in South Africa: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

Canada, South Africa, Access to Justice, Constitutions and Human Rights, Gender, Human Dignity, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Socio-Economic Rights, Standard of Review, Substantive Equality

On 25 October 2023, the Johannesburg High Court of South Africa in Van Wyk v Minister of Employment and Labour ...

Community Sentencing: A Positive Shift in the Indian Criminal Justice System

Community Sentencing: A Positive Shift in the Indian Criminal Justice System

India, Singapore, Spain, Access to Justice, Children's Rights, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Human Dignity, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Role of the Judiciary

A number of alternatives to custodial sentences have been introduced in the Indian criminal justice system, with ...

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