Human rights

A legal challenge against the UK government’s decision not to order an investigation into Russian interference in UK democratic processes has cleared its first hurdle at the European Court of Human Rights.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission has published a statement on the Bill of Rights, which is currently pending a date being set for its second reading in the House of Commons. 

The Home Secretary’s policy of sending asylum seekers to Rwanda is lawful, the High Court has held.

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has published a policy paper titled, ‘Responding to human rights judgements: 2021 to 2022’, which sets out the government’s position on the implementation of human rights judgements from the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the UK domestic courts under the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA 1998). 

‘Depicting the ECHR and HRA 1998 as alien intrusions undermining British sovereignty is historically illiterate,’ Sir Geoffrey Bindman KC writes in this week’s NLJ. Bindman asks: ‘What is behind this assault on the judiciary, the ECHR and HRA 1998?’

The ongoing assault on the judiciary, the European Convention on Human Rights & the Human Rights Act is authoritarian & undemocratic, says Sir Geoffrey Bindman KC

The Court of Appeal has weighed in on the debate surrounding criminal damage & right to protest: Nicholas Dobson examines the verdict

For centuries, the judiciary has remained one of the only checks against blatant attempts to mislead, says Sir Geoffrey Bindman KC

Recent incursions by the government into the rule of law and associated citizens’ freedoms have disturbing parallels in history, and should not be ignored, Geoffrey Bindman KC writes in this week’s NLJ.

With political divisions growing ever more pronounced, demonetisation is emerging as one of the principal weapons deployed to silence debate, argues David Locke