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Miranda case shows we need more secrecy laws… or does it? 26 Aug 2013 | 02:20 pm
As the August news lull continues, the David Miranda controversy is still troubling commentators – see Daniel Isenberg’s superb roundup. In the past week or so, an interesting symmetry has arisen betw...
David Miranda Special Edition – The Human Rights Roundup 26 Aug 2013 | 01:53 pm
Welcome back to the UK Human Rights Roundup, your regular airport departure board of human rights news and views. The full list of links can be found here. You can also find our table of human rights ...
They paved Plantagenet ‘n put up a parking lot 22 Aug 2013 | 04:21 pm
The Plantagenet Alliance Ltd (R o.t.a) v. Secretary of State for Justice and others, Haddon-Cave J, 15 August 2013 read judgment I spent long hot summers in the 1970s digging up the remains of Saxon...
David Miranda – Remember his name. 21 Aug 2013 | 02:28 am
Our attitude to anti-terror policing is very strange indeed. In many ways, it is like a magician’s trick. We (the public) turn up at the show with the full intention of suspending our disbelief so as ...
High Court upholds autonomy over fatherhood for learning disabled man 20 Aug 2013 | 04:27 pm
NHS Trust v DE [2013] EWHC 2562 (Fam) 16 August 2013 - read judgment For the first time a UK court has permitted non therapeutic sterilisation of a male individual who, through learning disabilities,...
Twitter Trolls, Tribunal Online (Finally), Don’t go Home – The Human Rights Roundup 19 Aug 2013 | 01:19 pm
Welcome back to the UK Human Rights Roundup, your regular menagerie of human rights news and views. The full list of links can be found here. You can also find our table of human rights cases here and...
Imposing strict conditions on release of terrorist offender did not breach Article 8 15 Aug 2013 | 03:01 pm
Tabbakh, R (on the application of) v Staffordshire and West Midlands Probation Trust and others [2013] EWHC 2492 (Admin) – read judgment The claimant, a Syrian national, was serving the non-custodi...
Mental health detention powers must be reviewed urgently, says Parliamentary Committee – Lucy Series 14 Aug 2013 | 02:19 pm
The House of Commons Health Committee has published a report (PDF) following its inquiries into the Mental Health Act 2007. The MHA 2007 introduced several amendments to the Mental Health Act 1983 (M...
No obligation enforceable within the UK to oblige government to comply with Strasbourg 12 Aug 2013 | 05:37 pm
Navarathnam v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2013] EWHC 2383 (QB) - read judgment There was no unfairness in the Secretary of State for the Home Department refusing a Sri Lankan asylum s...
European Commission fines and their compliance with Article 6 12 Aug 2013 | 05:16 pm
C-501/11P Schindler v. European Commission, CJEU, 18 July 2013 – read judgment Two things of general interest to the human rights lawyer in this unsuccessful attempt by Schindler to challenge a fine ...
