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Pre-trial detention after expiry of the custody limit does not breach right...
Kevin O’Dowd v UK (application no. 7390/07) [2010] ECHR 1324 (21 September 2010) – Read judgment The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that a man’s pre-trial detention did not breach his right...
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Sexual orientation removed from UN resolution condemning executions
The Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Affairs Commitee of the United Nations has narrowly voted to remove sexual orientation from a draft resolution against extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary...
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Harsher sentences for modern day slavers
R v Khan [2010] EWCA Crim 2880 - Read judgment The Court of Appeal has increased the sentences of two human traffickers from 3 to 4 years and upheld the 3 year sentence of a third trafficker (despite...
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United Nations restores sexual orientation clause to extrajudicial killings...
Updated | The reference to sexual orientation in a resolution on extrajudicial, summary and arbitrary executions has been restored. The General Assembly voted 93 in favour of the US proposal, with 55...
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Unlawful mental health detention – who is to blame?
TTM (By his Litigation Friend TM) v London Borough of Hackney, East London NHS Foundation Trust; Secretary of State for Health – Read judgment The Court of Appeal has ruled that the local authority,...
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Beware the poor lawyer: the legal aid reform responses
The consultation on the Government’s proposed reforms of legal aid closed on Monday 14th February. The reforms amount to a substantial reduction in the scope of and eligibility for legal aid. When...
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Child’s identity to remain a secret
A (A Child) v Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust [2011] EWHC 454 (QB)- read judgment A High Court judge has ruled that a seven-year-old child with severe disabilities caused by medical...
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No quick fix for the child protection system
The Department of Education today published the final report of Professor Eileen Munro into the child protection system in England. After extensive consultation, the report concludes that the social...
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Closing the escape hatch for foreign criminals?
AP (Trinidad & Tobago) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2011] EWCA Civ 551 Read Judgment In the ongoing controversy over the deportation of foreign offenders, the Court of Appeal...
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When deporting foreign criminals is in the public interest
RU (Bangladesh) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2011] EWCA Civ 651 - Read Judgment Further to our recent post on the deportation of foreign criminals, the matter has once again come to...
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Full internet ban for sex offenders ruled unlawful
Regina v Smith & Others [2011] EWCA Crim 1772 Read Judgment In a detailed judgment, the Court of Appeal has emphasised the importance of a sentencing court considering whether making a Sexual...
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First they came for the journalists…
News of the deaths of Sunday Times reporter Marie Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik and the serious injuries of photographer Paul Conroy and Edith Bouvier, a freelance journalist reporting for...
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Failure to stop disability harassment is inhuman treatment, rules Strasbourg
Attitudes changing, slowly DORDEVIC v. CROATIA – 41526/10 – HEJUD [2012] ECHR 1640 – read judgment The European Court of Human Rights has declared in Đorđević v Croatia that the failure of the Croatian...
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