New Bill Shifts Focus to Survivors of Human TraffickingScotland, Immigration and Asylum, Labour RightsEarlier this year, I interviewed a group of young Bangladeshi men who had been trafficked into Scotland to work in ...
The Tasmanian Dams Case, 30 Years On – Unfulfilled PromisesAustralia, Constitutions and Human Rights, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationThe landmark Australian Tasmanian Dams case celebrated its 30th anniversary in August 2013. This case was a ...
Disenfranchising the Disenfranchised? – Appeal Rights in the Immigration Bill 2013United Kingdom, Access to Justice, Immigration and AsylumThe first immigration bill to be published in four years was introduced in the House of Commons on 10 October ...
Al-Jedda: Judicial Commitment to the Universal Application of the Right to a NationalityUnited Kingdom, Immigration and AsylumThe Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006 provides that the Secretary of State may, as a general rule, ...
The Bedroom Tax: the First Six MonthsUnited Kingdom, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Housing, Socio-Economic RightsEditor's Note: Over the past few weeks we have featured posts on various aspects of the controversial 'bedroom ...
Indian Supreme Court Upholds the Right to Negative VotingIndia, Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression, Right to VoteIn late September, the Indian Supreme Court, in PUCL v. Union of India, upheld the constitutional right of ...
German Federal Constitutional Court Says No Civilian War Damages for NATO Air Strike in SerbiaGermany, Conflict and Human RightsThe German Federal Constitutional Court has rejected constitutional complaints lodged by Serbian citizens in ...
Waking Up On The Wrong Side Of The Bedroom TaxUnited Kingdom, Right to Housing, Socio-Economic RightsTo politicians and lawyers, the ‘bedroom tax’ is just media shorthand for statutory rules relating to housing ...
The Price of Rights: Regulating International Labor MigrationImmigration and Asylum, Labour RightsThere are trade-offs in the labour immigration policies of high-income countries between openness to admitting ...
Ten Thousand Miles from Wall Street: Muldoon v. Melbourne City CouncilAustralia, Right to Freedom of Speech and ExpressionMelbourne is ten thousand miles from Wall Street. And yet, as a Federal Court of Australia decision demonstrated ...
Quashing Legislation Mandating Lengthy Detention of Asylum-seekers: A Resolute yet Cautious Israeli Supreme Court JudgmentIsrael, Immigration and AsylumThe Israeli Supreme Court, sitting as a High Court of Justice, handed down a unanimous judgment quashing the 2012 ...
R v D: an Imperfect, yet Promising, Approach to the Treatment of the Niqaab in CourtUnited Kingdom, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Right to Freedom of ReligionDebate has recently been ignited in the UK about whether Muslim veils can be accommodated in court, stemming from ...