Jan 29, 2024 · As the dust settles on another year, it is (just about still) time to look back over the year gone to review some of the most dramatic, legally interesting or impactful cases of the year gone by. As ever, this is only a selection of the top cases of the year, but as a whole […]

Dec 31, 2024 · Join Rosalind English in Episode 211 as she discusses with Lucy McCann and Jonathan Metzer of 1 Crown Office Row the cases that have been decided at all levels in the courts in 2024 that have had, or will have, important implications for practitioners and litigants in fields ranging from children in care through anonymity in medical negligence to the forfeiture of property under the Suicide ...

In Episode 213 of Law Pod UK, Alasdair Henderson of 1 Crown Office Row joins Labour MP Henry Tufnell (formerly of 1 Crown Office Row) to discuss some of the salient and problematic proposals in Labour’s most sweeping changes to employment law in decades. They consider the proposed restrictions on zero hours contracts, the radical reduction of the qualifying period for unfair dismissal and ...

Nov 1, 2024 · 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 under Article 2 of the ECHR. Introduction Article 2 of the ECHR protects the right to life. That article contains two […]

10 cases that defined 2020. 24 December 2020 by Jonathan Metzer. The Christmas decorations at Middle Temple. Photo by the author. This time last year I wrote that 2019 had been “perhaps the most tumultuous period in British politics for decades”.Little did I …

Nov 3, 2024 · McKleenon, re Application for Judicial Review (Northern Ireland) 2024 UKSC 31. Following our recent Law Pod UK episode on judicial review, this case contains some useful guidelines to the differences between the kinds of remedy available via judicial review versus statutory appeal, private civil actions, private prosecutions and other avenues for compensation.

Jan 21, 2011 · Court of Human Rights: five recent Article 10 cases – Hugh Tomlinson QC. 21 January 2011 by Guest Contributor. Over the past month, the Court of Human Rig hts has handed down judgment in six Article 10 cases. We have already posted about the most recent, MGN v United Kingdom. Of the other five, two involved civil defamation claims in domestic cases.

Article 8 | Right to private and family life Read posts on this Article Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights provides as follows: (1) Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence. (2) There shall be no interference by a public authority with […]

Article 10. Article 10 | Right to freedom of expression Read posts on this Article. Article 10 of the Convention provides: (1) Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers.

Oct 28, 2020 · The Court of Appeal has delivered a judgment in R (Officer W80) v Director General of the Independent Officer for Police Conduct [2020] EWCA Civ 1301 regarding the applicable conduct standard and provisions governing police in cases of use of force. The Court ruled against the police officer W80, holding that his honest, but mistaken, […]