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The Weekly Round Up: Chemical castration, historic deportations, and excommunication
Mr Christie appealed against a suspended two-week prison sentence for contempt of court, following his breach of an ...
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Cheshire West rides again: no power for a local authority with parental responsibility to consent to detenion
J v Bath and North East Somerset Council & M [2025] EWCA Civ 478 concerns an appeal of a decision by Mrs Justice Lieven. Lieven J had held that there was no need for the High Court to make an order ...
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Weekly Round-Up: Immigration, Assisted Dying, Ukraine, Gabon, and Two Tweet Appeals
Round-Up: Immigration, Assisted Dying, Ukraine, Gabon, and Two Tweet Appeals, including the striking off of solicitor for ...
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Roll up roll up? Human rights group’s challenge to Israeli arms supply proceeds at speed
Chamberlain J has provided new guidance on when the court may order a rolled-up hearing. The procedural point arose in the context of an ongoing piece of strategic litigation, and resulted in an ...
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No, legislating to allow euthanasia would not breach the European Convention on Human Rights
There are many well-tuned arguments both for and against the liberalisation of the UK’s strict euthanasia laws, some more helpful than others. This piece is not concerned with weighing up the policy ...
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Guest Post: Assisted Suicide on the NHS would breach the ECHR
Article 2 of the ECHR protects the right to life. That article contains two distinct substantive obligations: “the general obligation to protect by law the right to life, and the prohibition of ...
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Nursing home held not to be a public authority for the purposes of an Article 2 claim
In Sammut v Next Steps Mental Healthcare Ltd and Greater Manchester Mental Health Foundation Trust [2024] EWHC 2265(KB), HHJ Bird sitting as a judge of the High Court gave summary judgment in favour ...
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Dillon and others’ applications for judicial review – a radically unradical analysis of the Legacy Act
In Dillon [2024] NIKB 11, the controversial Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023 (Legacy Act) was challenged head on. The Court disapplied a number of provisions of the Act ...
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Freedom of expression and offensive political Emails: an important assertion of a fundamental right
In a significant ruling, the Court of Appeal has quashed the conviction of the appellant for an offence contrary to Section 1 of the Malicious Communications Act 1988 based on an email written to ...
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Either not Neither: further consideration of non-binary identity by the High Court
The Divisional Court (Lady Justice Laing and Mrs Justice Heather Williams) confirmed in R (Castellucii) v The Gender Recognition Panel and the Minister for Women and Equalities [2024] EWHC 54 (Admin) ...
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The mirror crack’d from side to side: Dalton’s application for judicial review [2023] UKSC 36
In Lord Tennyson’s Arthurian ballad ‘The Lady of Shalott’, the eponymous heroine is stranded in her island castle. Continually weaving a web in her loom of the reflections of the outside world she ...