Brushing off moral case for pardon of Alan Turing may well turn into a legal caseUnited Kingdom, Sexual OrientationIn this post human rights specialists and Alex Bailin QC of Matrix Chambers and John Halford of Bindmans LLP warn ...
Corporate Gods: can a company claim protection for religious beliefs?United States of America, Right to Freedom of ReligionDoes a profit making company owned and operated by people with strong religious beliefs fully share their right to ...
An Initial Reaction to the Commission on a Bill of Rights Final ReportUnited Kingdom, Constitutions and Human RightsDavid Feldman, Rouse Ball Professor of English Law at the University of Cambridge and former Legal Adviser to the ...
Redfearn v United Kingdom and an Integrated Approach to Labour RightsEuropean Convention on Human Rights, Labour Rights, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Freedom of AssociationFollowing on from Alan Bogg's analysis of Redfearn v United Kingdom, this post by Anjoli Maheswaran Foster focuses ...
A prelude to Fisher v Texas from the US Court of Appeal Sixth Circuit?United States of America, Race, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationIn the latest contribution to our affirmative action themed series of post, Karl Laird looks at a recent decision ...
The Ironies of Gay Divorce in IsraelIsrael, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Sexual OrientationBy Dr Amir Paz-Fuchs It is a rare occasion that decisions by Family Courts in Israel receive front page ...
Redfearn v United Kingdom: Hard Case Makes Good Law- Part 2European Convention on Human Rights, Labour Rights, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Freedom of AssociationIn Redfearn v United Kingdom, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) held that the UK was under a positive ...
Release of the Commission on a Bill of Rights Final ReportUnited Kingdom, Constitutions and Human RightsThe Commission on a Bill of Rights released its final report today. The Report is available on the Commission's ...
Redfearn v United Kingdom: Hard Case Makes Good Law-Part 1European Convention on Human Rights, Labour Rights, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Freedom of AssociationOn 6 November 2012, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) handed down judgment in Redfearn v United Kingdom. ...
Book Review: Laurie Ackermann, Human Dignity: Lodestar for Equality in South Africa (Cape Town: Juta and Co., 2012)South Africa, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationLaurie Ackermann “Human Dignity: Lodestar for Equality in South Africa” (Cape Town: Juta and Co., 2012) This ...
US Supreme Court grants certiorari in Windsor v United States – what comes next?United States of America, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Role of the Judiciary, Sexual Orientation, Standard of ReviewFollowing on from his previous post considering the recent US Second Circuit Court of Appeal decision to widen the ...
Parents’ sexual orientation and children rights– coming out in Chile and the ICHR: Atala Riffo v ChileAmerican Convention on Human Rights, Children's Rights, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Privacy, Sexual OrientationAtala Riffo e hijas vs. Chile, a case in which the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (ICHR) condemned the ...