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The government has announced that it is ceding sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius. When granting Mauritius’ independence in 1968, the UK unlawfully separated the Chagos Archipelago and forcibly expelled around 1500 to 2000 inhabitants
In Sammut v Next Steps Mental Healthcare Ltd and Greater Manchester Mental Health Foundation Trust [2024] EWHC 2265(KB), HHJ Bird sitting as a judge of the High Court gave summary judgment in favour of the first defendant in a claim
In Episode 201 Emma-Louise Fenelon speaks to Emma Snell of JUSTICE and Christian Weaver, a barrister at Garden North Chambers about Achieving Racial Justice at Inquests: A Practitioner’s Guide (2024), a guide recently published by JUSTICE and INQUEST.
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The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Hilary Benn, has announced a public inquiry into the killing of Pat Finucane. Mr Finucane was a solicitor working in Belfast who had represented high profile IRA prisoners. He
In The Commissioner for the British Indian Ocean Territory v. The King (on the application of VT and Others), the UK Government has lost the latest round in long-running litigation concerning a group of individuals accommodated in basic facilities
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The road to hell, so the saying goes, is paved with good intentions. While not quite as dire, well-intentioned laws can nevertheless sometimes have severe consequences. In Re Mediahuis and others’ applications for judicial review [2024] NIKB 45,
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Following May’s High Court judgment finding former Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s protest regulations unlawful, human rights organisation Liberty claimed last week that the Home Office has decided to continue its appeal. The case, spearheaded by Liberty, sought
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The Children’s Commissioner for England, Dame Rachel de Souza, has published a report which found that black children are four times more likely to be strip searched compared to national population figures. The report analysed a dataset
