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 ...
The Queen v D(R): Wearing a Veil During Proceedings in Crown CourtUnited Kingdom, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Right to Freedom of ReligionIn a recent Crown Court case The Queen v. D(R), His Honour Judge Murphy had to rule on whether a defendant charged ...
Guantanamo Military Commissions: Reflections from a Legal Observer – Part 3United States of America, Counter-terrorism, Criminal Justice and Fair TrialEditor’s note: This is the third and final post of a multi-part blog. To view earlier posts on this subject, ...
Provoking Debate: The UN Special Rapporteur and the Right to Housing in the UKUnited Nations, Right to Housing, Socio-Economic RightsThe right to housing seldom captures the public imagination or the media spotlight. Yet the visit of the UN ...
The Need for ‘Hard Evidence’ of Public Sector Equality Duty OutcomesUnited Kingdom, Business and Human Rights, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationThe Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED) Review report, published 6th September, was met with cautious relief. ...
Guantanamo Military Commissions: Reflections from a Legal Observer – Part 2United States of America, Counter-terrorism, Criminal Justice and Fair TrialThere is perhaps no more controversial space in the world than the U.S. Naval Station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. For ...
Mmusi Ruling a Watershed Moment for Gender and Customary Law in Botswana and BeyondBotswana, Gender, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationOn September 3rd, the Court of Appeal in Botswana decided that Edith Mmusi’s parents’ home belonged to her and her ...