A Successful First Instance Challenge to Bedroom Tax
The Liverpool first tier tribunal (“FTT”) has recently overturned the decision of a Local Authority to reduce the housing benefit of Mr Carmichael, the husband of one of the claimants...
Disability
P v Cheshire West and Chester Council: Shaping Deprivations of Liberty
The case of P v Cheshire West and Chester Council considered whether living arrangements for mentally incapacitated people necessarily constitute a deprivation of their liberty. Its significance lies in the...
Nigerian Standup Comedians and Differently Abled Persons from a Human Rights Lens
The Nigeria popular art space came to life about a decade ago with the coming of Nollywood. Standup comedy followed closely with various shows in Abuja, Lagos, Port Harcourt and...
Is There a Hierarchy of Human Rights and Human Rights Reporting?
I believe that just as there is a hierarchy of rights, as discussed by human rights scholars, there is also a hierarchy of human rights reporting. War reporting and the...
The More, the Murkier: Of Several Draft Laws on Disability in India
India has finally been taken over by the wave of legislative engagement with the rights of persons with disabilities (PwDs), several years after ratifying the United Nations Convention on the...
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