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, Sexual OrientationAtala Riffo e hijas vs. Chile, a case in which the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (ICHR) condemned the ...
Identifying forced labourUnited Kingdom, Labour RightsFollowing her recent post on the OxHRH Blog, Gwendolen Morgan returns with a post highlighting the issue of ...
Class actions for South Africa: Children’s Resource Centre Trust v Pioneer FoodSouth Africa, Access to JusticeAlthough the South African Constitution makes provision for class actions, the requirements for instituting a ...
Access to Justice for Self-Represented Litigants?United Kingdom, Access to JusticeRobin Knowles CBE QC and Natasha Holcroft-Emmess add to the voices on the OxHRH Blog warning of the threat to ...
‘He Believed in People’: Remembering Arthur ChaskalsonSouth Africa, Access to Justice, Constitutions and Human Rights, Role of the Judiciaryby Geoff Budlender Arthur Chaskalson, former Chief Justice of South Africa and a champion of human rights, ...
From Slavery to Strasbourg: The ECtHR makes the first Article 4 finding against the UKEuropean Convention on Human Rights, Labour RightsBy Gwendolen Morgan In November 2012, the European Court of Human Rights handed down judgment in the case of CN ...
Dismissal and the Band of Reasonable Responses; an unconventional approach to Convention rights?United Kingdom, Labour RightsBy Heather Williams QC The Court of Appeal recently decided in Turner v East Midlands Trains Ltd [2012] EWCA ...
US Decision Widens Suspect Class to Afford Protection to Same-Sex CouplesUnited States of America, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Sexual Orientation, Standard of ReviewBy Karl Laird In an important judgment, Windsor v United States the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ...
Unkind Cuts: UK Refugee Lawyers Cite Grave Concerns over Impending Legal Aid RestrictionsUnited Kingdom, Access to Justice, Immigration and AsylumBy Stephen Meili Following on from Jo Renshaw's piece on this blog about the impact of the legal aid cuts on ...
The Universality of Human Rights Norms: Why the UK should stay with StrasbourgUnited Kingdom, Constitutions and Human RightsThe view is often heard in discussions in anticipation of the report of the Commission on a British Bill of Rights ...
James, Wells and Lee v UK: Indefinite Detention and Arbitrary Deprivations of LibertyEuropean Convention on Human Rights, Criminal Justice and Fair TrialMore than 6000 UK prisoners are currently subject to indefinite detention without means of progressing towards ...
Fisher v University of Texas: What the Judges AskedUnited States of America, Race, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Standard of ReviewThe third installment in our affirmative action series looks at the oral arguments presented and questions asked ...