Women and Poverty: A Human Rights PerspectiveGender, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Socio-Economic RightsDespite a renewed global commitment to reduce extreme poverty and achieve gender equality, women throughout the ...
The Least Dangerous Branch: Whose Role is it to Protect Parliamentary Sovereignty? Miller and the Human Rights Implications of BrexitUnited Kingdom, Brexit, Constitutions and Human RightsOne of the extraordinary outcomes of the Brexit referendum has been the insistence that the Government is entitled ...
Miller: Winning Battles and Losing WarsUnited Kingdom, Brexit, Constitutions and Human RightsThe claimants in Miller won the first round of the legal battle, since the High Court concluded that Parliament’s ...
A First Take on Miller – with a Note on the Human Rights PerspectiveUnited Kingdom, Brexit, Constitutions and Human RightsThe High Court today handed down its decision in Miller v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union. As ...
An English Duty to Have ‘Due Regard’ – An Effective Means of Upholding Children’s Rights?United Kingdom, Children's RightsIn its Third Report of Session 2016–17, scrutinising the Children and Social Work Bill, the Joint Committee on ...
Having Regard to the UN Convention on the Rights of the ChildUnited Kingdom, Children's RightsThe Third Report of the Joint Committee on Human Rights for the Session 2016-7 has recommended the inclusion of a ...
Brexit: Foundational Constitutional and Interpretive Principles: IIEuropean Union, United Kingdom, BrexitThis should be read with the previous posting. They are both designed to reveal underlying issues of ...
Brexit: Foundational Constitutional and Interpretive Principles: IEuropean Union, United Kingdom, Brexit, Constitutions and Human RightsThe post-referendum discourse has been marked by vibrant political and legal exchange in Parliament and the ...
Six months later: a reflection on what has changed since the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea ordered an end to detention on Manus IslandAustralia, Papua New Guinea, Immigration and AsylumOn 26 April 2016, the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea (PNG) ruled that the detention of asylum seeker and ...
Ahmed v United Kingdom: European Court of Human Rights Still Skirting Around Jury BiasEuropean Convention on Human Rights, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Race, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationThe European Court of Human Rights (“ECtHR”) recently handed down its long-awaited admissibility decision in Ahmed ...
Ending the Perverse Culture of Mob Justice in NigeriaNigeria, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Right to LifeThe failure of Nigerian criminal justice institutions and agencies to prevent mob justice or punish those who ...
Law of Peace(making) and the Promise of a New Beginning for ChildrenUnited Nations, Children's Rights, Conflict and Human RightsThe act of peacemaking may be viewed as the promise of a new beginning. It is latent within the sui generis legal ...