04 Nov, 2024 Mediate now or be told to do so; changes to the CPR By Amelia Nice New changes to the CPR mean that courts in England and Wales can now order parties to engage in alternative dispute resolution (“ADR”)...
23 Oct, 2024 Draft New IMO Guidelines on the Fair Treatment of Seafarers – an international human rights law perspective By Alex Tinsley The Legal Committee of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) has recently produced a draft new version of its Guidelines for the...
11 Oct, 2024 An update on the law of infanticide: a review of cases over the past 20 years by the Cambridge Pro-Bono Project By Karlia Lykourgou Last year I wrote an article highlighting a number of high-profile prosecutions pursued against women for causing the death of a foetus...
12 Sep, 2024 The Artificial Intelligence Framework Convention: What Impact on Human Rights? By Cian Murphy The Council of Europe has achieved a world first with the opening for signatures of the Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence...
06 Sep, 2024 Legal Toolkit: Representing pregnant women and mothers in the criminal justice system By Maya Sikand KC Pippa Woodrow Hannah Smith On the 5th September 2024 Doughty Street Chambers hosted the launch of a legal toolkit ‘Representing pregnant woman and mothers in the...
28 Aug, 2024 Derivative residence rights and the EU Settlement Scheme By Michael Spencer Derivative residence rights and the EU Settlement Scheme: R(Akinsanya and Aning-Adjei) v Secretary of State for the Home department...
26 Jun, 2024 Stella Creasy MP, erasing malicious complaints and Article 17 of the UK GDPR By Stephen Cragg KC What can be done when a public authority hold personal information about a person which that person knows to be wrong – is there an...
18 Jun, 2024 A common law approach to agency under section 109(2) of the Equality Act 2010 By Mukhtiar Singh For discrimination lawyers, agency and principal considerations may arise when an alleged discriminator or harasser is not employed by...
20 May, 2024 Illegal Migration Act 2023: disapplied in Northern Ireland and incompatible with the ECHR By Adam Straw KC In Re The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission [2024] NIKB 35, the High Court in Northern Ireland held that a number of central...
22 Apr, 2024 RESTRAINT ORDERS: Is Complexity of Financial Structures an Indicator of Dishonesty? By Jonathan Lennon KC Solicitors dealing with complex fraud, money-laundering and corruption cases are very well used to having clients who are particularly...
02 Apr, 2024 Interim Measures at the European Court of Human Rights - Form, Substance, Future By Cian Murphy Interim measures – steps that a court indicates to maintain the status quo until it decides the dispute – can be a key feature of...
22 Mar, 2024 ‘Failure to remove’ claims and Article 3: SZR v Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council [2024] EWHC 598 (QB) By Sam Jacobs Sam Jacobs, Doughty Street Chambers; Anna Moore, Leigh Day Solicitors For claims concerning alleged failures by social services...