[2016] EWHC 386 (Admin) The court considered issues concerning the availability of the bar to extradition in the Extradition Act 2003 s.14 based on the passage of time in cases where the requested person had left the requesting state while subject to a suspended sentence which was subsequently activated. In three conjoined appeals against extradition orders, the … Continue reading (1) WOJCIECH WISNIEWSKI (2) TOMASZ SAPOR (3) KAROLINA WIRYNSKA v (1) REGIONAL COURT OF WROCLAW, POLAND (2) REGIONAL COURT OF POZNAN, POLAND (3) DISTRICT COURT IN TORUN, POLAND (2016)
Tag: Human Rights
Evans v HM Attorney General [2015] UKSC 21
Case name: Evans v HM Attorney General [2015] UKSC 21 What's it all about? The case involved a failed attempt by the former Attorney General to prevent the disclosure of information that the Upper Tribunal had ruled ought to be made public under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA). A Guardian journalist had, ten years … Continue reading Evans v HM Attorney General [2015] UKSC 21
Mohammed and Others v Secretary of State for Defence [2015]
Happy New Year to all of our readers and subscribers from all of us here at the Law Lessons 4 Life Team! We really value our readership and would like to thank you for coming back to our site time and time again. We have been out of action for more than a year, but … Continue reading Mohammed and Others v Secretary of State for Defence [2015]
Pretty v the United Kingdom [2002] ECHR 427
Another week, another seminal case. In Pretty v UK (2002) 35 EHRR 1, it was held , for the first time, I might add, that Article 3 ‘treatment’ can include mental suffering (at para 54). For more information on the Pretty case, please read it in full here: https://www.bailii.org/eu/cases/ECHR/2002/427.html
Dolan & Ors, R (On the application of) v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care & Anor [2020] EWCA 1605
Happy new year! Our first case summary of the year and I'm going to focus the next few blogs on a few top cases from 2020, inspired by the https://ukhumanrightsblog.com - a great site btw, so please do check them out1 The first case is talking about a COVID 19 case from last year... The … Continue reading Dolan & Ors, R (On the application of) v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care & Anor [2020] EWCA 1605
Sargsyan v. Azerbaijan (Decision) (App no. 40167/06)
Human rights – Private life – inability to return to the village where one was born and spent much of one’s life affected private life - cultural and religious attachment to the graves of late relatives might also fall within the notion of private and family life Citation: Sargsyan v. Azerbaijan (Decision) (App no. 40167/06)
Khoroshenko v. Russia (App no. 41418/04)
Human rights – ECHR Art 8 – a prison regime which entailed restrictions on the types, frequency and duration of visits of family members involved an interference with family life – it was an essential part of a prisoner’s right to family life that he was permitted to maintain contact with close family members Citation: … Continue reading Khoroshenko v. Russia (App no. 41418/04)
WALID YOUSIF v COMMISSIONER OF POLICE OF THE METROPOLIS (2016)
The judge below had been correct to conclude that the appellant's treatment while in police custody did not give rise to a breach of ECHR art.3 or art.8. The strip search and cell move (while unclothed) to which he had been subjected had resulted from his own failure to engage with officers at the police … Continue reading WALID YOUSIF v COMMISSIONER OF POLICE OF THE METROPOLIS (2016)
EIGHT REPRESENTATIVE CLAIMANTS & ORS v MGN LTD (2016)
The court had to determine whether conditional fee agreement (CFA) legislation, which allowed the recovery of additional liabilities in defamation and privacy cases, was incompatible with ECHR art.10. The claimants had sought damages for invasion of privacy after their phones were hacked by the defendant newspaper publisher. Eight of the claimants had gone to trial, … Continue reading EIGHT REPRESENTATIVE CLAIMANTS & ORS v MGN LTD (2016)
MP (SRI LANKA) v SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (2016)
The appellant Sri Lankan national appealed against a refusal ([2014] EWCA Civ 829) of his application for asylum. The respondent secretary of state had accepted that the appellant had been a member of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, and that he had been detained and tortured by the Sri Lankan security forces. However, she … Continue reading MP (SRI LANKA) v SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (2016)
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