Introduction Until the Brexit referendum, the Conservative Party had been committed to repealing the HRA for a decade. During the Brexit process, political discussion about the...
The law of human rights is rather difficult to fathom and is often portrayed in the media as ‘protecting the wrong people’. In Gäfgen, the applicant...
Article 2(1) of the ECHR protects the right to life whilst article 2(2) sets out the circumstances in which force resulting in the loss of life,...
When consulting this issue, there are three main matters that one has to focus on. Firstly, whether parliamentary sovereignty was undermined by the European Communities Act...
The Human Rights Act 1998 has extended the legal protection afforded to human rights and has therefore been a key driver of the shift from a...
Let me make a mildly shocking factual statement. Human Rights do not exist. They have no objective foundation which requires us to acknowledge that they are...
The CPA 2004 and MSSCA 2013 allow same-sex couples the freedom to choose the way in which they formalise their relationship, whether that be as civil...
The question raised in the title of this essay could find a very easy and straightforward answer: Capital Punishment is prohibited by European law in times...
The essence behind the calls for the ban of religious symbols is a misguided calculation: secularism can only be achieved through the absence of different viewpoints...
This right of privacy is broad enough to encompass a woman’s decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy. The detriment that the State would impose...