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 fact the latest ‘poverty statistics’ for the UK, published...
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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 practical significance) has been the implementation of a cap on the benefits (including those relating...
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 Human Rights here in the UK, sharing a different perspective to the...
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 England and Wales and introduced ‘enhanced’ court fees – enhanced in the...
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 issues posed by the drastic reduction in the Equality and...
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 impact of the recent introduction of employment tribunal fees. What might...
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 the general election? In this three part blog-series, Professor Sir Bob...
Recognising Travellers’ Needs: The Courts Begin to Move
Are courts beginning to recognize the duty of equality law to respect and protect the rights of minorities to be different? A recent important High Court decision in Moore &...
What Traffickers Know that the Court of Appeal Does Not
In Reyes and Suryadi v Al-Malki [2015] EWCA Civ 32 and Benkharbouche and Janah v Embassy of the Republic of Sudan and Libya [2015] EWCA Civ 33 the Court of...
The Legality of Mass Surveillance Operations
A court which isn’t a court in name rules on the legality of a government mass surveillance program that may or may not exist. That about sums up the Kafkaesque...
Whole Life Sentences in Hutchinson v UK – Compromise or Concession?
In Hutchinson v UK, the ECtHR again addressed the vexed question of the compatibility of whole life sentences with human rights law. This post analyses the Chamber decision, recognising the...
Reporting Restrictions in Criminal Cases Involving Juveniles
On 3 November 2014 Will Cornick was sentenced to a minimum of 20 years imprisonment for the murder of his teacher Ann Maguire, after stabbing her in front of her...
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