Why Dinah Rose QC Had an Obligation to Give up the Homophobic Cayman Islands Brief: A Response to Lord Hendy QCUnited Kingdom, Access to Justice, Sexual OrientationJustice Edwin Cameron’s criticism of Dinah Rose QC for persisting in holding a brief in the Privy Council to ...
What Price Comedy? Freedom of Expression and Dignity Clash at Canada’s Supreme CourtCanada, Disability, Right to Freedom of Speech and ExpressionThe boy with a subwoofer on his head. When I complained that he sang badly, I was told “He’s dying. Let him live ...
Queensland Court to consider Australia’s first ‘climate change’ human rights caseAustralia, Business and Human Rights, Environment, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to LifeAs an increasing number of cases worldwide link climate change and human rights (for instance, see here), the ...
Shamima Begum and The Humpty Dumpty Supreme CourtUnited Kingdom, Immigration and Asylum, Role of the JudiciaryOn 26 February 2021, the Supreme Court refused permission for Shamima Begum to return to the UK. The Supreme Court ...
The Cab Rank RuleUnited Kingdom, Access to JusticeIn his blog for the Human Rights Hub, Edwin Cameron criticised Ms Dinah Rose QC, the President of Magdalen, for ...
For Whom the Bell Tolls: “Contract” in the Gig EconomyUnited Kingdom, Labour Rights, Socio-Economic RightsAre Uber drivers ‘limb (b) workers’ and so entitled to fundamental statutory rights such as the minimum wage and ...
Minority Vilification: Redress for Community MembersEuropean Court of Human Rights, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression, Right to PrivacyOn 16 February 2021, the European Court of Human Rights delivered landmark judgments against Bulgaria regarding ...
Monitoring of employees’ electronic communications: Recent case-law in TurkeyTurkey, Right to PrivacyThe Turkish Constitutional Court recently delivered a judgment in the individual application of Celal Oraj ...
The Supreme Court of India Takes Reasonable Accommodation SeriouslyIndia, Disability, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationOn 11 February 2021, a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India rendered a significant judgment in the case ...
Intra-Group Discrimination and the CJEUCourt of Justice of the European Union, Poland, Disability, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationDoes discrimination cover situations in which the differing treatment is imposed on persons within a group sharing ...
An opportunity lost for the protection of freedom of expression and LGBTI rights in JamaicaJamaica, Business and Human Rights, Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression, Sexual OrientationOn 30 October 2020, the Jamaican Court of Appeal handed down its long awaited judgment in the case of Tomlinson v ...
The Human Rights Act, 1998United Kingdom, Constitutions and Human Rights, Role of the JudiciaryA striking feature of the history of Europe since the ending of WW II has been the origin, development, ...