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Challenge to export of military parts that might be used by Israel fails in the High Court: military decisions like this not ...
Law Pod UK latest: the role of the Attorney General in upholding the rule of law; parliamentary sovereignty v international ...
By guest contributor Saira Turner In U3 (AP) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2025] UKSC 19, the Supreme Court has unanimously dismissed an appeal against a decision taken by the Special ...
When adoption without parental consent breaches human rights 1 October 2013 by Martin Downs Re B-S (Children) [2013] EWCA Civ 1146 – Read judgment is the latest Judgment of the Court of Appeal on ...
In this guest post, Rajiv Shah argues that the provision of assisted suicide in the England and Wales via the NHS would constitute a substantive breach of the negative obligation imposed on the State ...
Anurag Deb and Colin Murray This is not a post about the conflict between the provisions of the Illegal Migration Bill and the European Convention on Human Rights (an issue which has already attracted ...
Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust v AB [2020] EWCOP 40 In this carefully nuanced judgment, the Court of Protection has ruled that although a patient with a chronic eating disorder would ...
Leigh & Ors v (1) The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis and (2) Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (Interested Party) [2022] EWHC 527 A year after the kidnap, rape and murder of ...
This was a very simple case that illustrates in a nutshell the courts’ approach to the principle of “ex turpi causa”: the notion that prevents a claimant from seeking a legal remedy if the claim ...
Use of force by police: what is the standard for determining misconduct? 28 October 2020 by Guest Contributor Jermaine Baker was shot dead in December 2015. Image: The Guardian The Court of Appeal has ...
But one curious argument has recently emerged which is of serious concern to both authors: the argument that liberalising euthanasia laws, in line with the proposed changes in Leadbeater’s Bill, ...