Comparative Human Rights Law Book Launch: Sandy Fredman in Conversation with Colm O’Cinneide
Law, as a starting point for global conversation around the role of law, lawyers, courts, and judges in forwarding ...
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JCHR Report: The Right to Privacy (Article 8) and the Digital Revolution
On 3 November 2019, the Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) published a report on The Right to Privacy (Article ...
The Future Could Be Accessible, But Only If All Disability Shortlists Are Made Legal
Tuesday 3 December marked the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPWD), but with only one week to ...
Intersectional Barriers Hindering the Effectiveness of the UK’s Draft Domestic Abuse Bill, 2019
The UK’s Draft Domestic Abuse Bill, 2019 has been described as a ‘landmark’ piece of legislation. This recognition ...
The Grenfell Tower Fire as a Breach of the Right to Life
Considered one of the worst man-made disasters in post-World War II Britain, the Grenfell Tower fire of June 14th, ...
New UK Ministry of Defence proposals risk impunity
In July 2019, the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) made a series of proposals on Legal Protections for Armed Forces ...
From contract to role: using human rights to widen the personal scope of employment protections
The UK Supreme Court’s judgment in Gilham demonstrates how human rights can be used to widen the class of ...
The UK Supreme Court’s “One Off” Judgment
It was a "one off". A conclusive determination on a series of seismic constitutional clashes: representative ...
The Four Categories of Risk to Rights in the Brexit Process
Writing only weeks before the (re)scheduled date of UK withdrawal from the EU, there seems little of which to be ...
Organ Donation: New Law, New Horizons
The Organ Donation (Deemed Consent) Act 2019 became law on 15th March 2019 and introduces a new system of organ ...
Police Use of Automated Facial Recognition Technology: an Emerging Challenge for Human Rights
Earlier this week, the High Court at Cardiff held that police use of automated facial recognition technology (AFR) ...
Prorogation: Three Assumptions
Litigation is often predicated on certain assumptions. These may be the result of argumentation of the parties, ...
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