European Legal Aid in a Domestic Framework – Part Two
As hinted in yesterday’s post, under section 4 of LASPO, The Lord Chancellor provided guidance on how to decide ...
European Convention on Human Rights
A European Right to Legal Aid? Part One
A key aspect of the Government’s reform agenda regarding civil legal aid is the restriction, set out in Schedule 1 ...
McDonald v UK: The ECtHR on Social Care Provision
So did Ms McDonald OBE, former ballerina, win her case in the European Court of Human Rights (McDonald v UK) or ...
Cyprus v Turkey: Arming the European Court against States’ Complacency?
The European Court of Human Rights (“ECtHR”) recently handed down judgment in Cyprus v Turkey. This case, the ...
RMT v United Kingdom: Sympathy Strikes and the European Court of Human Rights
In RMT v United Kingdom the European Court of Human Rights held that the ban on secondary action in the United ...
Inspiring Change Through Law for International Women’s Day
March 8th is International Women’s Day, formally observed by the United Nations in recognition of the fact that ...
Migrant ‘Push Backs’ at Sea are Prohibited ‘Collective Expulsions’
In the early hours of 20 January 2014, a boat coming from Turkey carrying twenty-seven Afghan and Syrian ...
Judicial Review of Migrant Detention in Europe: In Search of Effectiveness and Speediness
Detention has been highlighted in recent years by a number of international and non-governmental ...
Jones and Others v UK: Immunity or Impunity?
The recent decision of the European Court of Human Rights in Jones and Others v UK represents a missed opportunity ...
Respect for Private Life under Article 8 and Covert Filming – Söderman v Sweden
The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (“GC”) found Sweden had breached its obligations under ...
Lord Sumption on ‘The Limits of Law’
In the 27th Sultan Azlan Shah Lecture, given in Kuala Lumpur on 20th November, Lord Sumption, Justice of the UK ...
X v Latvia: Creative Harmony, Fortunate Result
In X v Latvia the ECtHR held that a domestic Latvian order requiring the applicant to return her daughter to ...
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