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Catching up With the State of Human Rights in Poland
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Adam Bodnar of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights describes the most important human rights problem in Poland: “the intersection of the deprivation of the right to liberty, the right to defend yourself, the right to a lawyer and legal aid, plus...
Court: UK media guns take aim again
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Is a report in today’s edition of the United Kingdom Times newspaper proof that some facts are just too annoying to be allowed to get in the way of a good story? The journal claims that “tens of thousands of prisoners are in line for compensation...
Britain’s got it way its way on prisoners’ votes – so why withdraw from the ECHR?
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In yesterday’s judgment on 1,015 “legacy” applications, the European Court of Human Rights ruled once again that the legislative bar on prisoners’ voting breaches article 3 of the first protocol to the European Convention. That result was predictable...
David Harris, Michael O’Boyle, Ed Bates and Carla Buckley: UK withdrawal from the Convention? A broader view.
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In the following blog the authors of the third edition of a leading text on the Law of the ECHR (Harris, O’Boyle and Warbrick, The Law of the European Convention on Human Rights, David Harris, Michael O’Boyle, Ed Bates and Carla Buckley, OUP, 2014) look...
EU Council of Europe Committee of Ministers Adopts Recommendation on Human Rights and Business
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(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2104) Among state and intergovernmental organizations, the Member States of the European Union, acting in concert or individually, have been among the most aggressive in seeking to create incentives for its Member States to...

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A mixture of law, politics, autobiography and humour. Once described as "The Devilish Advocate" (Guardian), I do have the ability to provoke a response. Sometimes it comes from someone who uses a thou...
Jailhouselawyer's Blog: July 2011

The extent of the Government’s association with the media mogul’s companies was laid bare in official figures showing that 20 Cabinet ministers met senior Murdoch executives 130 times over the past 14...

Jailhouselawyer's Blog: June 2007

(2) PRISONER VOTING 67. In Hirst v UK, the Grand Chamber of the ECtHR noted that the current blanket ban on prisoners voting in the UK applied to a wide range of offenders, and did so in a way which w...