Retiring Supreme Court president defends human rights – BBC News
“The founding president of the UK’s Supreme Court, Lord Phillips, has defended the Human Rights Act as he announces his retirement.”
BBC News, 11th October 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Category: human rights
Supreme Court Court backs asbestos compensation law – BBC News
“The UK Supreme Court has backed the right of people in Scotland to claim damages for the asbestos-related condition pleural plaques.”
BBC News, 12th October 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Big Brother or crime fighting? DNA evidence under the microscope – UK Human Rights Blog
“A proposal to retain DNA samples taken from people who have been arrested but not charged with a crime for up to five years has come under criticism from the Joint Committee on Human Rights.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 10th October 2011
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
The conversation: Judging rights from wrong – The Guardian
“The Conservatives want to replace the Human Rights Act with a British version. Liberty director Shami Chakrabarti and Tory MP Dominic Raab go head to head.”
The Guardian, 7th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Self-incrimination and the fruit of the poisonous tree: the Cadder rule – UK Human Rights Blog
“Reliance on evidence that emerged from questioning a person without access to a lawyer did not invariably breach the right to a fair trial under Article 6. The principle established by Salduz v Turkey (36391/02) (2009) 49 EHRR 19 did not apply to questioning outside a police station.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 7th October 2011
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Ambrose v Harris (Procurator Fiscal, Oban) ; HM Advocate v M; HM Advocate v G – WLR Daily
“In principle the line as to when access to legal advice had to be provided before a person suspected of a criminal offence was questioned by police should be drawn as from the moment when he had been taken into police custody, or his freedom of action had been significantly curtailed.”
WLR Daily, 6th October 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Right to private life ‘at risk’ in plan to store DNA of innocent people – Daily Telegraph
“The Home Secretary’s plan to retain the DNA of people charged but then cleared of offences may breach human rights law, a group of MPs and peers have said.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th October 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
The Dale Farm Evictions – Garden Court Chambers Blog
“As we await the latest court judgment, Marina Sergides analyses the legal and social aspects of the Dale Farm case.”
Garden Court Chambers Blog, 6th October 2011
Source: www.gclaw.wordpress.com
Grieve: stop spreading lies about Human Rights Act – The Independent
“The Attorney General has reignited Tory tensions over the Human Rights Act by insisting it had been beneficial for Britain and condemning the ‘hysterical untruths’ printed by newspapers about its perverse effects. Dominic Grieve was speaking after Theresa May, the Home Secretary, mounted an attack on the Act, telling the Manchester conference that a Bolivian immigrant had successfully resisted deportation because of his pet cat.”
The Independent, 6th October 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Catgate: another myth used to trash human rights – The Guardian
“The home secretary is wrong,the decision not to deport an illegal immigrant had nothing to do with the pet cat.”
The Guardian, 4th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Related link: Theresa May’s twisted tale of a Bolivian’s cat
Theresa May plans clampdown on criminals who resist deportation – The Guardian
“Britain’s immigration rules are to be amended to curb the ability of foreign criminals to resist deportation by invoking their right to a family life under the Human Rights Act, the home secretary, Theresa May, is to announce on Tuesday.”
The Guardian, 3rd October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
British forces ordered to stop the hooding of terror suspects – The Independent
“The hooding of prisoners or terror suspects by Britain’s armed forces has been totally banned following a High Court judgement.”
The Independent, 4th October 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Reports of the Human Rights Act’s death have been greatly exaggerated – UK Human Rights Blog
“The Home Secretary Theresa May’s has told the Sunday Telegraph that she would ‘like to see the Human Rights Act go’.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 2nd October 2011
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Ferdinand v MGN – a “Kiss n’ Tell” public interest defence succeeds – Lorna Skinner – UK Human Rights Blog
“In the first ‘misuse of private information’ trial against a newspaper since Max Mosley in 2008, Mr Justice Nicol dismissed a claim brought by England and Manchester United footballer Rio Ferdinand against the Sunday Mirror.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 2nd October 2011
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Home Secretary May ‘wants Human Rights Act scrapped’ – The Independent
“Home Secretary Theresa May risked angering Liberal Democrat Cabinet colleagues today by throwing her weight behind calls for the Human Rights Act to be scrapped.”
The Independent, 2nd October 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Detention of mentally ill foreign national violated Convention rights – Daniel Sokol – UK Human Rights Blog
“The High Court has found that the Secretary of State unlawfully detained a mentally ill foreign national who was awaiting deportation. By failing to notify the claimant of the deportation order in good time or to follow the Home Office’s own published policies on the detention of mentally ill persons, and by detaining the claimant in degrading conditions, the Secretary of State had breached Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatment) and Article 5 (right to liberty and security of person) of the Convention.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 29th September 2011
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Max Mosley loses privacy law appeal bid – The Independent
“Human rights judges have rejected an appeal by ex-Formula One boss Max Mosley against his failed bid to force a change in UK privacy laws.”
The Independent, 27th September 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Prison ‘slopping out’ case goes to high court – The Guardian
“The Prison Service is fighting a legal case that could force the government to spend millions of pounds upgrading old jails.”
The Guardian, 26th September 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Deporting prisoners: efficacy of the prison system – Halsbury’s Law Exchange
“The European Court of Human Rights has held in AA v United Kingdom (no. 8000/08) that a young Nigerian man cannot be deported back to his country of birth after serving almost half of a four year sentence for the rape of a 13-year-old girl. The applicant was 15 at the time of the offence, and had shown exemplary conduct during his time in custody and beyond, studying for his A levels and completing undergraduate and postgraduate degrees. However the government had argued that the applicant had been involved in luring the victim, showing a degree of planning and sophistication, and pointed out that his original plea of not guilty had forced the victim to relive the ordeal at trial. Some may feel that the seriousness of the crime warranted automatic deportation after the completion of sentence, and provision is made for this in the UK Borders Act 2007.”
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 22nd September 2011
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
