Proposals to End Free Travel for Most Post-16 Special Educational Needs and Disability students in Oxfordshire Limits Right to Education
On 19th June, Oxfordshire County Council will decide whether to end free travel for most Post-16 Special ...
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The UK Supreme Court Decision on Abortion in Northern Ireland: A Pyrrhic Defeat?
In the wake of the Irish referendum vote to end the country’s ban on abortion via the repeal of the eighth ...
Fighting for the Right to Donate Blood: Reviewing Changes to the UK’s Separate, but Equal, Policy Towards LGBT+
The UK’s current policy guidelines on donating blood have a complex history of misassumptions and homophobic ...
Failing to Prioritise Religious Burials in London: Equal Treatment or Equality?
In R (ota Adath Yisroel Burial Society) v HM Senior Coroner for Inner North London [2018] EWHC 969, the High Court ...
Valuing Dignity of the Windrush Generation
In listening to the experiences of the Windrush generation and their treatment by the UK Home Office, what stands ...
Cakes and the Conscience Wars
Last week, the U.K. Supreme Court heard argument in Lee v. Ashers Baking Company. The case involves a baker whose ...
Discriminatory changes to UK disability benefits: some hope from judicial intervention?
Welfare benefit law and policy has seen considerable controversy over the last few years, as existing benefits are ...
The future of law clinics: Part 2 – The Law Clinic in the University
Earlier, I wrote about the role of law clinics as agents of social justice in a democracy. In this post, I will ...
The future of law clinics: Part 1 – Social Justice, Human Rights and Law Clinics
It was clear from an excellent workshop in Tel Aviv University last month that an impressive number and variety of ...
Falling into gaps and getting stuck in traps: Post-18 transition for young people with learning difficulties
Connor Sparrowhawk, a young man of 18 with autism and epilepsy, was admitted to Slade House after he became ...
Reflections On The Rhodes University Travelling Fellowship
As one of two holders of the inaugural Oxford Human Rights Hub Travelling Research Fellowship, I have had the ...
Law and Disability: How The UK Is Still Reinforcing The Medical View Of Disability
In 2009, when the UK ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), it seemed to ...
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