
Human Rights Act campaign
The British Institute of Human Rights is running a campaign against the repeal of the Human Rights Act 1998 – a prospect that is arguably more likely following the appointment […]
The British Institute of Human Rights is running a campaign against the repeal of the Human Rights Act 1998 – a prospect that is arguably more likely following the appointment […]
Tomorrow (4 September 2012) the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg will hear four cases concerning the right to freedom of religion and its limits. Two of the applicants […]
It was impossible to feel anything but sympathy for Tony Nicklinson, who died a few days ago of pneumonia. Nicklinson suffered from “locked-in syndrome”: left almost entirely paralysed (but intellectually unimpaired) […]
The “Twitter joke case” – on which I posted earlier in the week – prompted an interesting article in yesterday’s Guardian. In it, John Kampfner, former chief executive of Index on […]
The case of Paul Chambers raises an interesting question about freedom of expression in the internet age. When Chambers discovered that the airport from which he was due to fly […]
Earlier today, the UK Supreme Court gave judgment in RT (Zimbabwe) v Home Secretary. The appellants were challenging the government’s refusal to grant them asylum in the UK. It is […]
A lot of human rights law is concerned with deciding on the balance that can lawfully be struck between an individual’s right, on the one hand, and the interests of […]
Here’s an interesting post from the Free Movement blog, concerning a recent story in the Daily Mail. The story concerned a tribunal decision about whether human rights law prevented the deportation of an […]
It is reported today that the UK has been taken to task by the Council of Europe’s new human rights commissioner for failing to implement a ruling by the European […]
The Commission on a Bill of Rights is considering whether the Human Rights Act 1998 should be replaced, or supplemented, by a “British Bill of Rights”. Today, it issued a […]