One of the things that sometimes concerns me is what in the past I’ve called “human rightsism“: the tendency to think all social problems should be cast and resolved in terms of human rights. It’s related I think to […]

BBC Radio 4’s Law in Action this week discussed human rights law – the pluses and minuses of the Human Rights Act, what changes the Bill of Rights Commission might agree on, and what reforms to the European Court […]

The Guardian is reporting today that Home Office legal advisers think Brodie Clark, the former senior civil servant at the Border and Immigration Agency, will win his employment tribunal claim against the Home Office. I find this slightly strange, […]

A few weeks ago Adam Wagner at the UK Human Rights Blog told us the ECHR had changed the stance it took in July on a series of religious discrimination claims currently being pursued in the European Court […]

Sir Nicholas Wall has published his judgments in these cases involving Vicky Haigh, the woman John Hemming named in Parliament as a potential “secret prisoner” back in April after she spoke at a public meeting about the court […]

I was listening to the Proms last night, when the concert was rudely interrupted. As most readers will know, protesters disrupted the concert because the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra was playing.

I’m attracted by Norman Lebrecht’s view (expressed in response […]

An interesting discrimination law judgment came the Court of Appeal on Friday in Grant v H.M Land Registry.

Chris Grant worked for the Land Registry, initially at Lytham, where he was “out”; but when he got promoted to a […]

In the latest Without Prejudice podcast, Charon QC, Timothy Pitt-Payne QC, Amanda Bancroft of Beneath The Wig and I discuss

• Lady Hale’s comments on legal aid
• the law on checking out potential employees
• the Milly Dowler murder […]

I took part in Decision Time on BBC Radio 4, first broadcast last night, in a discussion about the European Court of Human Rights – specifically whether the UK could denounce the European Convention on Human Rights, […]

In this week’s Without Prejudice podcast, Financial Times General Counsel Tim Bratton joins Charon QC, David Allen Green and me to talk about:

• contempt of court in the week Twitter typed two fingeredly to the courts
• privacy law, […]