2/13/2025 3:09:57 PM Law of the sea & human rights – Improvements achieved in draft IMO Guidelines – but some opportunities missed By Alex Tinsley For the context of this post, see this previous post. In short, there is an ongoing initiative to set out new international standards to...
2/6/2025 2:14:02 PM Is it Madness? By Anselm Eldergill Professor Anselm Eldergill examines the government’s Mental Health Bill. The government’s Mental Health Bill is currently before...
1/29/2025 9:15:00 AM The McDonald's Model: What happens next following a McFlurry of harassment complaints? By Lameesa Iqbal Initial Complaints of Sexual Harassment In 2019, the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union said it had received around 1,000 complaints...
1/28/2025 11:53:50 AM The need to plead a positive case in defence if you have a positive case in defence By Cara Hall In Man v St George’s University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust [2024] EWHC 1304 (KB), the High Court exercised its case management powers...
12/16/2024 4:51:30 PM The Budget and the Right to Buy By Cara Hall The Autumn Budget announced on 30 October 2024 made many major changes. One particularly striking change was to the right to buy. The...
11/27/2024 2:50:13 PM Cutting workplace conflict and barriers to resolution By Camilla Palmer KC Conflict is everywhere. Conflict can be good - when the aim is to debate a way forward, and the means is constructive dialogue. Most...
11/25/2024 3:14:49 PM Anonymity and reporting restriction orders: PMC (a child by his mother and litigation friend FLR) v A Local Health Board [2024] EWHC 2969 (KB) By Frederick Powell The High Court has handed down a significant judgment on applications for anonymity and reporting restriction orders. It is likely to...
11/4/2024 11:52:21 AM 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”)...
10/23/2024 1:58:49 PM 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 version of proposed new Guidelines for...
10/11/2024 12:53:34 PM 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...
9/12/2024 2:14:39 PM 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...
9/6/2024 1:27:55 PM 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...