In a landmark decision handed down on Tuesday, the High Court ruled that discretionary leave to remain should be granted to recognised modern slavery victims seeking asylum based on the fear of being re-trafficked upon return to
Continue Reading The Weekly Round-up: Human trafficking, climate protest and algorithmic discrimination
One of the most keenly-awaited judgments from the Northern Ireland High Court, Gallagher’s application [2021] NIQB 85 is a roughly-300-paragraph deep-dive into some of the abiding legal controversies surrounding the Omagh bombing of 15 August 1998. The bombing, for which
Continue Reading Omagh revisited
In Episode 150 Rosalind English talks to Professor Ryan Abbott about the recent ruling in the Court of Appeal on whether an invention made by Artificial Intelligence without a traditional human inventor is entitled to a patent. The Court (with
Continue Reading Law Pod UK latest episode: Can AI receive patent protection?
Henrietta Lacks was a young Black woman who in 1951 was diagnosed with a particularly agressive form of cervical cancer. Her treating doctors at the Johns Hopkins hospital took a sample from the tumour and that was the birth of
Continue Reading Henrietta Lacks and her immortal cells: Lacks estate sues pharmaceutical company
In Dove v HM Assistant Coroner to Teeside and Hartlepool & Anor [2021] EWHC 2511, the High Court considered the State’s obligations under article 2 ECHR with respect to those in receipt of welfare benefits as well as the
Continue Reading High Court refuses fresh inquest in welfare benefits case
The Sunday Times, now committed to its campaign to change the law on assisted dying, has shared the story of Len and Karen Williamson, who spent £45,000 travelling to Switzerland with the assistance of private ambulances and
Continue Reading The Weekly Round-Up: Assisted dying, the Human Rights Act ‘overhaul’, and the limits of Scottish legislation
R (Cornerstone) v Ofsted [2021] EWCA Civ 1390
In this claim for judicial review, the issue was whether it was lawful for the claimant independent fostering agency (Cornerstone) only to accept heterosexual evangelical Christians as potential carers under the Equality
Continue Reading Court of Appeal rules on the legality of Christian requirement by fostering agency
The relationship between women’s rights and the police has been at the forefront of the news again this week, with shocking new revelations in the Sarah Everard case increasing concerns about institutional sexism in the police force,
Continue Reading The Weekly Round-Up: Women and the Police
Thaler v Comptroller General of Patents Trade Marks and Designs [2021] EWCA Civ 1374
The Court of Appeal has ruled that an artificial intelligence machine cannot qualify as an “inventor” for the purposes of Sections 7 and 13 of the
Continue Reading Can AI qualify as an “inventor” for the purposes of patent law?
The appeal by Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust was allowed. Image: The Guardian
In Bell and A v Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust and others [2021] EWCA Civ 1363 the Court of Appeal advised judges to avoid formulating policy in
Continue Reading “Let the Doctors Decide”
