Dec 18, 2017 Citizens’ rights, post-Brexit By Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC The House of Lords' EU Justice Sub-Committee is undertaking further work on "the important question of citizens' rights after Brexit,"...
Dec 13, 2017 Department of Health consulting on proposed change to organ donation system to make it opt out rather than opt in By Gemma Hobcraft On Tuesday 12th December, the Department of Health launched a consultation on the proposal for organ donation to be changed from an opt...
Dec 12, 2017 Law reform for single parents using a surrogate - one step closer By Gemma Hobcraft On 29th November 2017, a non-urgent remedial order was laid before Parliament with the intention of allowing a single person to apply for...
Dec 04, 2017 Call for ‘written guarantees’ on human rights in NI post Brexit By Doughty Street Chambers In a letter published in Monday’s Irish Times, the 16 signatories from both sides of the Border, say with Brexit negotiations at “a...
Nov 06, 2017 Deprivation of liberty and the zone of parental responsibility By Sophy Miles The Court of Appeal has handed down its decision in Re D (a child) [2017] EWCA Civ 1695 D’s case has...
Oct 08, 2017 RB v UK- the end of the road By Sophy Miles The European Court of Human Rights has ruled inadmissible the claim by RB, a man of 41 who suffered an organic personality change after...
Sep 29, 2017 Citizenship, Identity and the Quagmire of Brexit Negotiations By Susie Alegre The latest round of negotiations on Brexit ended this week in Brussels with mixed reviews. Citizens’ Rights is one of the three key...
Sep 19, 2017 New resource on social welfare law in Wales By Sophy Miles With the increasing divergence in social welfare law and practice between England and Wales, all of us owe a debt of gratitude to Luke...
Sep 18, 2017 Crime and Security- a Brexit afterthought? By Susie Alegre As London was responding to it's fourth terrorist attack this year, David Davis announced that DexEU was drawing up proposals for a new...
Sep 14, 2017 Mental health support for care leavers urgently needed By Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC In March 2015 the Department for Education and the Department of Health jointly published new statutory guidance on Promoting the health...
Sep 14, 2017 Councils should make care leavers exempt from council tax - but local changes are not enough; national change is needed By Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC In December 2016 I blogged about how Hammersmith and Fulham had become the first London council to make care leavers exempt from council...
Sep 12, 2017 Interviewing Wards of Court: Updated Guidance By Angela Patrick In May, I noted a judgment of Sir James Munby in Re A Ward, which made clear that the existing practice direction on interviewing...