The Two Child Tax Limit Perpetuates the Myth of Poverty as a Moral Failing
Families who have a third child born after 6 April 2017 will not receive child tax credits for the third child ...
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Business and Human Rights: A Tale of Two Duties
With effect from 29 March 2017, the French Loi de la Vigilance introduced into the Commercial Code a duty on ...
Socio-Economic Rights and Land Reform in Scotland: Learning from South Africa
Balancing the property rights of landowners with the socio-economic rights of communities and tenants has ...
UK Reform of Gender Recognition and the Commission for Equality and Human Rights
The UK Government’s consultation on reforming the Gender Recognition Act 2004 proposes making it easier for trans ...
Austerity Policies in the UK an Impermissible Retrogressive Measure
Under the umbrella of austerity, the UK has pursued a punishing regime of cuts to social welfare benefits and ...
The Consequences of the Ashers Cake Judgment
The Supreme Court has allowed the appeal by Belfast bakery Ashers Bakery and its managers Mr and Mrs McArthur in ...
Gender Recognition Reform – The Current Debate is Misconceived
The Gender Recognition Act 2004 ('GRA') allows transgender people in England and Wales to be legally recognised in ...
The Long and Winding Road of Caste Legislation in the UK
The power to make caste discrimination an aspect of race discrimination, originally contained in s.9(5) of the ...
Grenfell: Human Rights and a Ban on Combustible Cladding?
A number of key human rights issue arise following the Grenfell Tower Tragedy in which 72 people died, and many ...
A Human Right to Divorce?
The case of Owens v Owens rocked the legal world in late July, when the Supreme Court decided that Tini Owens ...
Landmark judgment on PSPO Regime has Significant Repercussions for Freedom of Expression
On 2 July 2018, the High Court handed down judgment in Dulgheriu v London Boroughof Ealing [2018] EWHC 1667 ...
Women’s Rights and the Proposed Changes to the Gender Recognition Act
In this post we use the word women to refer to individuals born as women (also known as ‘natal women’). The ...
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