Kimathi and Others v Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Kimathi and Others v Foreign & Commonwealth Office [2018] EWHC 2066 (also known as the ‘Mau Mau litigation’, ...
United Kingdom
Scrapping s 21: The need for secure private tenancies in England and Wales
In a victory for tenants’ rights campaigners, the UK Government has announced it will consult on repealing s 21 of ...
UK Supreme Court’s Vedanta Case – Hope for Zambian Communities Affected by Mining Pollution
The recent UK Supreme Court case, Vedanta Resources Plc and another v Lungowe and others, affirms the principle ...
Capping Economic Inequalities
Last week, the UK Supreme Court in DA, DS and others v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions upheld a series of ...
Privacy International: Reaffirming the Rule of Law
On Wednesday, the UK Supreme Court delivered its judgment in Privacy International. The issue was whether the ...
The socio-economic duty: A powerful idea hidden in plain sight in the Equality Act
Section 1 of the Equality Act 2010 asks public authorities to actively consider the way in which their policies ...
Asylum Applications Should be Judged on the Basis of Law not Religious Doctrine
In March 2019, a Home Office letter rejecting an asylum application made the headlines of the biggest media ...
Gym Use and Changing Rooms: the illegality and chilling effect of (trans)gender segregation
A recent, high-profile article published on HuffPost claimed that the popular leisure group – David Lloyd Leisure ...
Why Depriving Shamima Begum of her UK Citizenship Breaches International Law
Shamima Begum, the British teenager who left the UK to marry an ISIS fighter, was recently found in Syria and ...
Human Rights in Scotland
On 10th December 2018 the First Minister’s Advisory Group on Human Rights Leadership set out its vision for the ...
Successful Judicial Review of Benefits Payment in the UK
R (Johnson and others) and Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2019] EWHC 23 (Admin) is an English High ...
Lessons from Sir Henry Brooke: Making Rights Real (II)
In my last post, I argued that the judgment in Gareth Lee v Ashers Bakery is the consequence of the failure to ...
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