Human rights

Susan Nash provides an update on recent human rights cases

Alison Pickup analyses the changing nature of detaining foreign prisoners

The government should heed advice to reduce terrorism detention, Ali Naseem Bajwa & Beth O’Reilly

Confusion at the newly created Equality and Human Rights Commission was the last thing that human rights needed.

Eddie Craven & Rowan Pennington-Benton examine the judicial pecking order

The Chilcot team has completed the first phase of its Inquiry. It has revealed few new facts, but has reminded us of those already known. They confirm what ought to be Chilcot’s blunt conclusion: our leaders took us into a war that was illegal, immoral, unnecessary, and hugely destructive.

The General Council of the Bar has publicised the possibility of litigation against the government and the Legal Services Commission.

Religious bodies need to temper emotion & abide by the general law, says Geoffrey Bindman

Since last April many hospitals and care homes have had the power to deprive people of their liberty.

The tragic case of Rom Houben, the 46-year-old Belgian man who was mistakenly and wrongly assumed to be in a persistent vegetative state (PVS) for 23 years, raises a number of profound legal medical and ethical issues, including the accuracy of diagnosing the condition, the desirability of keeping patients alive in this “twilight” existence, and the implications of continuing to treat such patients.