This blog summarises care home visiting rules across the UK’s four nations of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. It was...
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The Government has provided additional guidance on looking after those who may lack capacity in the pandemic. You can read it here....
When the new legal term started in Australia in February, no one could have foreseen the impact of COVID-19 on our courts. Judges and...
Behind glass, and flanked by guards, Adolf Eichmann faced the judgment, of audiences around the world. On 11 April 1961, live from the...
The current Covid-19 pandemic has starkly highlighted the fact that the majority of the world’s population is dependent on globalised and...
This article, written by two members of Doughty Street Chambers’ Children’s Rights Group, sets out recent guidance issued by UN bodies on...
Open justice. “The words express a principle at the heart of our system of justice and vital to the rule of law… open justice lets in the...
Theo Huckle QC updates on current advice from the Chief Coroner, HHJ Lucraft... An Inquest is not a foregone conclusion, since death by...
In a sense, we are all “victims” of the 2020-1 Coronavirus pandemic. Our lives have been changed dramatically by its effects at the...
Submission to the UK Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights Inquiry into the human rights implications of the Government’s...
A number of unprecedented powers to restrict and control our behaviour and freedom of movement have been introduced by the government in...
The Coronavirus Act 2020 was given royal assent by the Queen on 25 March 2020, and so it is now on our statute books. The 329-page...