1 Crown Office Row barristers' chambers

Website: https://www.1cor.com/london/
Follow:

1 Crown Office Row barristers' chambers Blogs

UK Human Rights Blog

Blog Authors

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
Gideon Barth
Benchristman

Latest from 1 Crown Office Row barristers' chambers

https-i2-wp-com-ukhumanrightsblog-com-wp-content-uploads-2020-09-unknown-2-jpgresize225%2c225ssl1
For a while, 6 Portuguese citizens, between the ages of 8 and 21, have been on the brink of starting proceedings in the European Court of Human Rights. Now it has happened. On 3 September 2020, they sent their claim to the ECtHR. They have been helped in its preparation by the Global Legal Network, which has helpfully put up here a summary as well as the salient parts of the documents sent to the…
https-upload-wikimedia-org-wikipedia-commons-1-19-official_portrait_of_brandon_lewis_crop_2-jpg
In the news The Prime Minister has courted controversy yet again this week with a new Brexit bill that appears to violate international law. The proposed Internal Markets Bill would give ministers certain powers relating to Northern Ireland in respect of customs rules and state aid. In particular, it would give them powers to modify or “disapply” rules relating to the movement of goods which will come into force from 1st January 2021, if the…
https-i1-wp-com-ukhumanrightsblog-com-wp-content-uploads-2020-09-eu-withdrawal-agreement-jpgresize1024%2c614ssl1
The UK Internal Market Bill has caused huge controversy. Much has been written about the UK Government’s decision to propose this legislation which, as conveyed by the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Brandon Lewis MP, in Parliament, would openly flout international law (see, for example, Raphael Hogarth’s piece here, Mark Elliot’s here and discussion between Adam Wagner and David Allan Green here). A major argument offered in defence is the one…
https-i1-wp-com-ukhumanrightsblog-com-wp-content-uploads-2020-09-brook-house-irc-jpgresize1024%2c614ssl1
In Soltany and Others v SSHD [2020], the High Court dismissed a challenge to the conditions at Brook House Immigration Removal Centre (IRC), which at the material times in 2017 and 2018, was run by G4S. The claim for judicial review, which was brought by three individuals of Afghan origin, principally contended the night-time lockdown regime, pursuant to which detainees were locked in their rooms overnight from 9pm to 8am, was both “unnecessary and unduly…
https-i1-wp-com-ukhumanrightsblog-com-wp-content-uploads-2020-09-home-4950567_1280-pngresize245%2c271ssl1
This article was first published on the UK Labour Law Blog ( @labour_blog). We repost it with the kind permission of Dr Philippa Collins (@DrPMCollins at Exeter University) and the editors of the Labour Law Blog One of the lasting impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic upon the world of work is likely to be a move away from the traditional workplace. In some sectors, such as academia, IT, and administration, remote work or home working is…
https-i0-wp-com-ukhumanrightsblog-com-wp-content-uploads-2020-09-unknown-jpgresize275%2c183ssl1
This article was originally published on Sarjeants’ Inn Chambers UK Police Law Blog. They have kindly given us permission to repost it here. In Y v Bulgaria [2020] ECHR 163, the European Court of Human Rights set out the minimum requirements for criminal investigations where a person has been subjected to ill-treatment contrary to article 3 and held that those principles were properly derived from cases involving breaches of article 2, despite their different…
https-i1-wp-com-ukhumanrightsblog-com-wp-content-uploads-2020-09-lawpodlogo-1-jpgresize301%2c301ssl1
The Russian political dissident Alexei Navalny is still in an induced coma in a hospital in Berlin after being poisoned with the nerve agent Novichok on a flight from Siberia to Moscow on the 20th of August. The last time we heard of this lethal organophosphate was two years ago when two Russian residents in Salsibury, Wiltshire, survived an assassination attempt. Dawn Sturgess, who lived eight miles away, was not so lucky. She died…
https-i1-wp-com-ukhumanrightsblog-com-wp-content-uploads-2020-09-rohingya_refugees_entering_bangladesh_after_being_driven_out_of_myanmar_2017-jpgresize1024%2c576ssl1
In this article, Prachiti Venkatraman and Ashley Jordana of Global Rights Compliance analyse the case before the International Court of Justice relating to the persecution of the Rohingya people by the Myanmar authorities. Readers are encouraged to read the previous articles about this topic published on the blog here and here. To read more about Global Rights Compliance’s work with the Rohingya, please see: https://www.globalrightscompliance.com/en/projects/the-rohingya-accountability-project. The perilous situation of the Rohingya in Myanmar…
https-i2-wp-com-ukhumanrightsblog-com-wp-content-uploads-2020-08-enemies-of-people-1-jpgresize400%2c665ssl1
After a summer hiatus, Law Pod UK returns with an interview with Joshua Rozenberg who will be well known to listeners as a legal commentator, journalist, and presenter of the BBC’s Law in Action. In Episode 123 Joshua addresses attacks on judges and lawyers by the media and the government, and discusses his new book Enemies of the People? How Judges Shape Society This interview was recorded the day after the Home Office released…
https-i2-wp-com-ukhumanrightsblog-com-wp-content-uploads-2020-08-skynews-activist-lawyers-tweet_5079159-jpgresize574%2c323ssl1
Image: Screenshot of the Home Office’s twitter feed (now deleted). It was not an overly exerting bank holiday weekend for the author of this week’s round-up. The influence of the summer holiday appears to have resulted in relatively few judgments from the senior courts, with particularly little in the field of human rights law. However, the week was not wholly without incident… In response to the growing numbers of migrants seeking to cross the English…