Human rights

A recent employment appeal concerning a teacher dismissed for expressing gender-critical views on Facebook is a significant development in employment law because the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) focused on the ‘reason why’ question. In this week’s NLJ, Charles Pigott, professional support lawyer, Mills & Reeve, explains why the EAT’s approach ‘marks a significant development’ for discrimination claims, breaking new ground.

A recent Employment Appeal Tribunal ruling on gender-critical beliefs has brought human rights to the fore: Charles Pigott analyses a significant development for discrimination claims

The Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association (ILPA) has joined a coalition of 290 lawyers, justice, immigration, housing, legal advice and rights groups to collectively condemn the passing of the Illegal Migration Act 2023.

Recent judgments have highlighted the interaction between abortion time limits, criminal law & human rights, as David Walbank KC explains

Peers have inflicted a series of defeats on the Illegal Migration Bill, in a further setback for the government following the Court of Appeal’s ruling that its plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda for processing were unlawful.

The Bill of Rights has been dropped, the Lord Chancellor Alex Chalk confirmed this week

Home Office plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda to have their claims processed are unlawful, the Court of Appeal has held

A young man with autism has won his case that the cost of activities related to a daily social and life skills group should be deemed disability related expenditure (DRE) and cannot be ignored when calculating how much he should pay towards the cost of his care

This year marks the 75th anniversary of Windrush, the generation of people who responded to the government’s invitation to come from the Caribbean to post-war Britain between 1948 and 1971. In this week’s NLJ, Pauline Campbell pays tribute to some of the many people who came to the UK, pre-Windrush and as part of the Windrush Generation.

On the 75th anniversary of the arrival of HMT Windrush, Pauline Campbell reflects on West Indians’ contributions to the British war effort, to society & to the country