UN sanctions: possible changes?United Nations, Counter-terrorism, Criminal Justice and Fair TrialIn the last 20 years, the UN Security Council has adopted numerous sanctions not involving the use of armed ...
Presumptive Costs Orders: A Threat to Public Interest Interventions (Part I)United Kingdom, Access to JusticeThe Criminal Justice and Courts Bill received its second reading in the House of Lords on 30 June 2014 and has now ...
Religious anti-gay refusal – valuing dissent without making it lawfulUnited Kingdom, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Freedom of Religion, Sexual OrientationAccording to Supreme Court judge, Lady Hale, the law has yet to find the right balance between accommodating ...
The Problem of Progressive Realization – Protecting the Rights of the Disabled in JamaicaJamaica, Disability, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Socio-Economic RightsJamaica boasts of being the first country in the world to both sign and ratify the United Nations Convention on ...
Malawi's Electoral FiascoMalawi, Right to VoteClose to midnight on 30 May 2014, Prof Peter Mutharika was declared the winner of the fifth presidential elections ...
Malawi’s Electoral FiascoMalawi, Right to VoteClose to midnight on 30 May 2014, Prof Peter Mutharika was declared the winner of the fifth presidential elections ...
Professor Frances Raday Comments on SAS v FranceEuropean Convention on Human Rights, Gender, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Freedom of ReligionIn the Grand Chamber judgment in the case of S.A.S. v. France, the European Court of Human Rights held, by a ...
SAS v France in Context: the margin of appreciation doctrine and protection of minoritiesEuropean Convention on Human Rights, Right to Freedom of ReligionIn SAS v France the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) found that a French law ...
Establishing Aboriginal Title in Canada: Tsilhqot’in Nation v British ColumbiaCanada, EnvironmentThe declaration of Aboriginal title by the Supreme Court of Canada on June 26, 2014—a first in Canada—is a ...
The Irrelevance of Residence: The Unlawful ‘Residence Test’ for Legal AidUnited Kingdom, Access to Justice, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationIn R (Public Law Project) v Secretary of State for Justice, the Administrative Court held that the Government’s ...
Why Should Anyone Care About The UN? The UN Forum 2014United Nations, Constitutions and Human RightsThe UN Forum 2014, orchestrated by the United Nations Association-UK on 28 June, was the largest public event on ...
Mind the values gap: do we really believe in the Constitution?South Africa, Constitutions and Human RightsSouth Africans often proudly proclaim that our Constitution is one of the most progressive in the world. Yet if ...