Why the UK Should Embrace the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights
The UK evinces a certain amount of skepticism for both human rights and for Europe. There has been much publicity about the plans of a Conservative government to repeal the...
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The Uncertain Status of Child Rights in the UK
This November marks the 25th Anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). An atypical fusion of both civil and political, and economic, social and cultural rights,...
Government Lodges Plans to More Than Double Oxfordshire Immigration Removal Centre
The Home Office recently submitted plans for major expansion of Campsfield House, an Immigration Removal Centre situated just outside Oxford. Local political, religious and charitable organisations are coming together to...
The UK's Widening Gender Pay Gap – What Must be Done
The Geneva based World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Equality Index 2014 has ranked the United Kingdom) 26th out of 142 countries. Last year the WEF ranked the UK 18th, and...
The UK’s Widening Gender Pay Gap – What Must be Done
The Geneva based World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Equality Index 2014 has ranked the United Kingdom) 26th out of 142 countries. Last year the WEF ranked the UK 18th, and...
UK Efforts to Criminalize Revenge Porn: Not a Scandal, but a Sex Crime
International headlines were made in August when hackers stole from private devices and online accounts naked images of celebrities such as Jennifer Lawrence, Rihanna and Kate Upton and published them...
Human Rights in the UK Media: Representation and Reality
On 19 September, the Human Rights and International Law Unit of the School of Law and Social Justice at the University of Liverpool hosted a one day seminar – part...
Cutting Corners: The Procedural Illegality of Legal Aid Cuts
In R (London Criminal Courts Solicitors Association & another) v Lord Chancellor [2014] EWHC 3020 (Admin), the High Court ruled that the consultation process adopted by the Government in reducing...
The Impact of Fees in the Tribunal
Fees for bringing claims in the employment tribunal were introduced in August 2013. Since then, the Ministry of Justice’s statistics have revealed a huge decline in the number of claims....
Hounga v Allen: Trojan Horse Comes to the Rescue of ‘Illegal’ Migrants
In Hounga v Allen [2014] UKSC 47 the Supreme Court took the opportunity to overrule one of the most controversial Court of Appeal decisions on employment rights in recent times,...
Clinical Legal Education as an Access to Justice Innovation
Imagine you got grant funding to develop an access to justice research agenda. Your grant application proposes the appointment of a team of law graduates to conduct research within a...
Searching for the "T" in LGBT Advocacy
On August 30, 2014, the prominent UK lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) rights group, Stonewall, held a workshop with representatives from Britain’s transgender community to consider whether that organization could,...
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