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Supreme Court finally weighs in on the Tate’s viewing platform
In a headline-grabbing decision, the Supreme Court has decided that an observation platform at the Tate Modern Art Gallery (“the Tate”), which overlooks a number of nearby luxury apartments, gives...
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Surrogacy, IVF and equality: JR176(2)’s application for judicial review
Introduction Two men are in a relationship and want to have a child. They approach a female friend who is happy to be their surrogate. She has previously had a voluntary sterilisation procedure, so...
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Covid and Free Speech in the High Court
Introduction On 5 April 2023 the High Court handed down judgment in Adil v General Medical Council [2023] EWHC 797 (Admin). The case examined the extent to which a professional regulator can interfere...
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Unpublished policy and unlawful detention: a case note on R (MXK) v Secretary...
In R (MXK) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2023] EWHC 1272 (Admin), the Administrative Court held that: the repeated detention of the claimants – foreign nationals with limited leave to...
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R. v. Foster: Reigniting the UK Abortion Law Debate
Last month marked one year since the startling repeal of Roe v Wade on the 24th June 2022 – the day the US Supreme Court rowed back the right of American women to obtain an abortion. Almost exactly a...
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Court of Appeal upholds challenge to Rwanda removals policy – an extended look
R ((AAA) Syria and Ors) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2023] EWCA Civ 745 The Claimants in this case are 10 individual asylum-seekers from Syria, Iraq, Iran, Vietnam, Sudan and Albania...
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Mermaids v LGB Alliance: Tribunal rejects attempt to deregister controversial...
Despite what the parties and their supporters hoped, this case (Mermaids v The Charity Commission of England and Wales & LGB Alliance [2023] ULKFTT 563 (GRC)) was not – said the Tribunal – about...
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Coronial powers and the rights of the unborn (Part 1)
In this two-part article, Maya Sikand KC, Tom Stoate, and Ruby Peacock, explore two difficult questions arising from the inquest into the ‘harrowing circumstances’ of the death of a baby, Aisha...
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Coronial powers and the rights of the unborn (Part 2)
In this two-part article, Maya Sikand KC, Tom Stoate and Ruby Peacock, explore two difficult questions arising from the inquest into the ‘harrowing circumstances’ of the death of a baby, Aisha Cleary,...
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The Good Friday Agreement and the European Convention on Human Rights
Introduction On 11 August, a piece from Professor Richard Ekins KC (Hon) set out a case for the UK denouncing the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and leaving the treaty system altogether....
View ArticleLet’s talk about sex: case note on For Women Scotland Limited v The Scottish...
In For Women Scotland Limited v The Scottish Ministers [2023] CSIH 37 (“For Women Scotland 2”), the Inner House of the Court of Session has confirmed (for Scotland, at least) the relationship between...
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The mirror crack’d from side to side: Dalton’s application for judicial...
In Lord Tennyson’s Arthurian ballad ‘The Lady of Shalott’, the eponymous heroine is stranded in her island castle. Continually weaving a web in her loom of the reflections of the outside world she...
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Financial Sanction and Free Speech in the High Court
Background Graham Phillips, the Claimant, is a British national and video blogger who posts content from the Donbass dressed in Russian military fatigues. He says he is a journalist who provides a...
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Top Cases of 2023: the good, the bad and the legally complicated
As the dust settles on another year, it is (just about still) time to look back over the year gone to review some of the most dramatic, legally interesting or impactful cases of the year gone by. As...
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Double Feature: Article 6 and extradition in Bertino and Merticariu
Introduction On 6 March 2024 the Supreme Court handed down two separate judgments in the cases of Bertino v Public Prosecutor’s Office, Italy [2024] UKSC 9 and Merticariu v Judecatoria Arad, Romania...
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