Human Trafficking in Scotland
Following on from her previous post on forced labour in Britain Mei-Ling McNamara takes a closer look at the specific challenges facing Scotland. Scotland is a unique case on the...
Labour Rights
The Hidden Face of Forced Labour in Britain
As previous posts on the OxHRH Blog have highlighted, trafficking for forced labour remains a hot-button issue in the UK. A new report by the Office of International Migration (IOM),...
Redfearn v United Kingdom and an Integrated Approach to Labour Rights
Following on from Alan Bogg’s analysis of Redfearn v United Kingdom, this post by Anjoli Maheswaran Foster focuses on a different aspect of the case- the ‘integrated approach’ to social...
Redfearn v United Kingdom: Hard Case Makes Good Law- Part 2
In Redfearn v United Kingdom, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) held that the UK was under a positive obligation to enact legislation to protect employees from dismissal on...
Redfearn v United Kingdom: Hard Case Makes Good Law-Part 1
On 6 November 2012, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) handed down judgment in Redfearn v United Kingdom. In a two-part post, Alan Bogg argues that the ECtHR reached...
Identifying forced labour
Following her recent post on the OxHRH Blog, Gwendolen Morgan returns with a post highlighting the issue of modern day slavery, and the need for the rights of those subject...
From Slavery to Strasbourg: The ECtHR makes the first Article 4 finding against the UK
By Gwendolen Morgan In November 2012, the European Court of Human Rights handed down judgment in the case of CN v. UK. The court unanimously held that there had been...
Dismissal and the Band of Reasonable Responses; an unconventional approach to Convention rights?
By Heather Williams QC The Court of Appeal recently decided in Turner v East Midlands Trains Ltd [2012] EWCA Civ 1470 that the band of reasonable responses test (“BORR”), applied...
Pay Equality: When is there a right to claim?
By Betsan Criddle The important decision of the Supreme Court in Birmingham City Council v Abdulla establishes that a claimant who is out of time to pursue an equal pay...
Sex Workers Have Human Rights Too
By Stacey-Leigh Manoek and Gcobisa Silwana South African law criminalises sex work. In terms of the law both the sex worker and the client commit offences, yet it is sex...
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