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 […]
Religious freedom cases to be heard by European Court of Human Rights
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 […]
The right to decide about the right to die
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) […]
A right not to be offended?
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 […]
Social networking and freedom of speech
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 […]
Asylum-seekers, political opinions and exotically coloured cocktails
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 […]
Free speech, fair trial and the August riots
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 […]
Bad reporting, human rights and criticising judges
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 […]
Should prisoners have the right to vote?
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 […]
A British Bill of Rights?
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 […]
