United Kingdom, Time for you to Vote for Gender Equality
The voting period for the Gender Justice Uncovered Awards is open until May 31st. Voting is fast and easy. You can vote for several cases on the same day and...
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Caste Discrimination under UK law: Chandhok v Tirkey
The extent to which the Equality Act 2010 (EqA) protects against discrimination on grounds of caste was a vexed question, which finally reached an appellate court in Chandhok v Tirkey...
The Future of the HRA 1998 Under the Conservative Party
2015, much like 1992, will go down as a General Election for the UK pollsters to forget. After months of predicting that no single party would win an outright majority,...
The Legal Implications of a Repeal of the Human Rights Act 1998 and Withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights
The return of a majority Conservative government in last week’s general election in the UK has made the Conservative Party’s plans for reforming human rights law in the United Kingdom...
Does Islamic Law Deny a Right to Vote?
On April 22nd, British born radical cleric, Anjem Choudary declared Muslim MPs and voters to be “apostates” since he believes voting to be a “sin” against Islam. Allah, Mr. Choudary...
‘Zero-hours Contracts’: Zero Problem, or Zero Choice?
In our previous post, attention was drawn to the growing concern about the spread and regulation of ultra-casual employment known as ‘zero-hours contracts’ (ZHCs). Together with our colleague Dr Abi...
Britain’s Human Rights Agenda – Bringing Rights into the Home
In a speech to the UN in 1958, Eleanor Roosevelt famously remarked, “Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home… they are the world...
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 that the proportionality exercise for a discrimination defence to a possession claim under the Equality...
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 lead up to the election. Last October, the Conservative party...
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 surveillance operations by UK intelligence agencies. While these demonstrate that the security services...
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 interests of children in analysing whether the benefits cap was justified...
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 privacy? Such a matter was recently considered by the...
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