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...
22 Dec, 2023 A Guide to Sexual Risk Orders By Karlia Lykourgou Sexual Risk Orders (SROs) are a pain to the uninitiated. To be frank, they are a pain to the initiated too. They are civil orders that...
19 Dec, 2023 Data Protection and Digital Information Bill - downgrading the protection of personal data? By Stephen Cragg KC The Data Protection and Digital Information Bill is to be debated in the House of Lords on 19 December 2023. Those concerned with the...
13 Sep, 2023 DSC CRIMINAL APPEALS BULLETIN By Paul Taylor KC The September issue of the Doughty Street Chambers Criminal Appeals Bulletin is now live. In this edition we analyse a selection of the...
24 Nov, 2021 Capacity, sex and consent – the Supreme Court decision in Re JB By Mary-Rachel McCabe The Supreme Court has today handed down judgment in A Local Authority v JB (by his litigation friend, the Official Solicitor) [2021] UKSC...
07 May, 2021 Trespassers won’t be prosecuted? What the acquittal of XR protestors tells us about the future of policing protests By Doughty Street Chambers The policing of protests has come under increasing focus this year. Last week’s acquittal of XR protestors in Liverpool Magistrates’...
05 Jan, 2021 Visiting care home residents - the rules By Oliver Lewis This blog summarises care home visiting rules across the UK’s four nations of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. It was...
07 Dec, 2020 Mental Health Data and Targeted Advertising By Susie Alegre 2020 has put the spotlight on many aspects of our lives as individuals and societies. Covid 19 has not only been a threat to physical...
19 Nov, 2020 “Children and young people are not just the future. We are right here, right now.” By Mary-Rachel McCabe The UNCRC (Incorporation) (Scotland) Bill, which was introduced to the Scottish Parliament in September, “is a bright ray of sunlight in...
25 Sep, 2020 International human rights bodies, disability and Covid-19 By Oliver Lewis I have written an article in the European Human Rights Law Review on "Supranational human rights bodies and protecting the rights of...
23 Sep, 2020 Covid-19 deaths of care home residents: what does justice look like? By Oliver Lewis On Monday 21 September 2020, Doughty Street Chambers hosted a webinar on “Covid-19 deaths of care home residents: what does justice look...