Disability Defence to Possession can Rarely be Decided Summarily: Akerman-Livinsgtone v Aster Communities Ltd
This note considers the procedural implications of the Supreme Court’s decision in Akerman-Livingstone, which held ...
United Kingdom
ConstitutionUK – What Role for Human Rights in a New Constitution?
The role of human rights in our political and constitutional order has been something of a burning issue in the ...
Tentative Reform of State Surveillance Powers in the UK
Rumblings of discontent have been heard from the supervisory bodies that are entrusted with providing oversight of ...
Damaged and Disregarded: Children’s Interests in the Benefit Cap Decision
Following on from Paul Scott’s post, this contribution will consider how the Supreme Court in SG dealt with the ...
Privacy, Data Protection and Police Records
Can the retention of records by the police relating to acts that occurred in public be contrary to the right to ...
To Tackle Poverty Effectively, See it Through the Lens of Gender
Everyone knows that women hold up half the sky but are nonetheless much more likely to live in poverty. Yet in ...
The Benefits Cap and the Enforcement of Unincorporated Human Rights Treaties
A prominent element of the UK coalition government’s deficit-reduction strategy (in rhetorical terms, if not ...
Why we need to start saying I’m Alright with Human Rights
Sanchita discusses British Institute of Human Rights' new initiative to give voice to those who are Alright With ...
Grayling’s Enhance Court Fees: how to pay lip-service to Magna Carta
On 9th March 2015, the Civil Proceedings and Family Proceedings Fees (Amendment) Order 2015 came into force in ...
The Equality Agenda in 2015: Part III- Advancing Equality
In the final post of this ‘Equality Agenda in 2015’ blog-series, Professor Sir Bob Hepple QC returns to confront ...
The Equality Agenda in 2015: Part II- Access to Justice
In the second instalment of Professor Sir Bob Hepple’s ‘Equality Agenda in 2015’ series, the focus turns to the ...
The Equality Agenda in 2015: Part I- The Constitutional Issues
This will be a year of political and constitutional turbulence for equality law. What changes can we expect after ...
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