The Mass-Surveillance Cases We Might Not Want Our Courts to Hear: Big Brother Watch and Centrum för Rättvisa
The ECtHR’s 25.5.21 judgments in the two “bulk interception of communications and intelligence sharing” cases, Big ...
Role of the Judiciary
Respecting Subsidiarity While Guaranteeing the Right to a Tribunal Established in Accordance with National Law: From Astradsson to Xero Flor
International bodies like the ECtHR should not easily substitute their assessment for that of national judges who ...
Human Rights-Based Climate Litigation in Latin America
As in other regions of the Global South, groups and individuals in Latin America have engaged in litigation to ...
The Government’s Radical Theory of the Constitution
In its response to the Independent Review of Administrative Law, the Government has set out a theory of the ...
The Independent Review of Administrative Law: The Government Response and Consultation Exercise
In two earlier blogs I considered the IRAL Panel’s Report and a central feature of the government response, which ...
The Independent Review of Administrative Law-The Government Response
The government’s response to the Panel’s report was brief, Judicial Review: Proposals for Reform - Ministry of ...
The Independent Review of Administrative Law-The Panel Report
The Report of the Independent Review of Administrative Law (IRAL) was made public on 16 March. It stretches to 195 ...
Shamima Begum and The Humpty Dumpty Supreme Court
On 26 February 2021, the Supreme Court refused permission for Shamima Begum to return to the UK. The Supreme Court ...
The Human Rights Act, 1998
A striking feature of the history of Europe since the ending of WW II has been the origin, development, application
Setting the Record Straight on Socio-Economic Rights Adjudication: Kenya Supreme Court’s Judgment in the Mitu-Bell Case
On 11 January 2021, the Kenyan Supreme Court delivered the judgment in Mitu-Bell Welfare Society. The case ...
Kenyan Supreme Court on Structural Interdicts and Application of UN Guidelines on Evictions
The Kenyan Supreme Court has overturned a Court of Appeal decision which found that the forceful eviction of the ...
The Genocide Amendment: Why is the UK Government dragging its feet? (Part I)
On 7 December 2020, the House of Lords debated the Trade Bill that defines the UK’s post-Brexit trade relationships
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