Development of Disability Rights in the Indian Supreme Court
Image description: A picture of the Supreme Court of India. Development of Disability Rights in the Indian Supreme Court is a series of blog posts by the Oxford Human Rights...
Disability
Ward: A Missed Opportunity for the Supreme Court of Canada to Denounce Bullying of Children with Disabilities and to Promote Substantive Equality
On October 29, 2021, the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) rendered a 5-4 judgement that strengthens protection for freedom of expression while eroding the right of persons with disabilities to...
Disability-Selective Abortions – A Double-Edged Sword? High Court of England and Wales Gives Ruling on the Conflict Between Rights of Disabled Persons and Women’s Reproductive Choice
In Crowter & Ors, R (On the Application Of) v Secretary of State for Health And Social Care [2021] EWHC 2536 the High Court of England and Wales was faced...
Indian Supreme Court Strengthens Right to Education for Children with Disabilities
In a judgment delivered on 28 October 2021, the Indian Supreme Court took an important step in the direction of improving meaningful access to quality education for children with disabilities....
Assessing Vulnerability: Asylum Seekers with Disabilities in Direct Provision in Ireland
Asylum seekers with disabilities are largely invisible in the international protection system in Ireland. They face multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination as asylum seekers in Ireland’s Direct Provision system,...
Long-Awaited Realisation of the Right of Access to Materials Under Copyright of Persons with Visual and Print Disabilities in South Africa
For over 25 years, people with visual and print disabilities in democratic South Africa have been denied their basic rights of access to educational and cultural materials on grounds of...
Algorithms and Education: A New Frontier of Discrimination?
In this brief post, I want to demonstrate how ostensibly neutral and efficient algorithms can cause discrimination in education. Last year, the national advanced level qualifications (‘A-levels’) exams in the...
Supreme Court of Pakistan prohibits execution of condemned prisoners with mental illnesses: A promising start towards reforming Pakistan’s death penalty problem?
On 10 February, 2021, a five-judge bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan (SC) delivered its landmark judgement in Safia Bano v. Home Department (along with 2 consolidated cases). This...
What Price Comedy? Freedom of Expression and Dignity Clash at Canada’s Supreme Court
The boy with a subwoofer on his head. When I complained that he sang badly, I was told “He’s dying. Let him live his dream.” It’s been five years…and he’s...
The Supreme Court of India Takes Reasonable Accommodation Seriously
On 11 February 2021, a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India rendered a significant judgment in the case of Vikash Kumar v Union Public Service Commission. The judgment...
Intra-Group Discrimination and the CJEU
Does discrimination cover situations in which the differing treatment is imposed on persons within a group sharing a protected characteristic? The Court of Justice of the European Union (the Court)...
Installing Reasonable Accommodation as part of Equality in India
In an earlier post on this blog, I had demonstrated the exclusionary effect of an ableist interpretation of law. I had argued that the judgment of the Supreme Court of...
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