Articles tagged as Human Rights Law
Latest Law Papers tagged as Human Rights Law
Including law essays, dissertations, problem questions, case summaries, and law lectures, suitable for law students working towards their LLB / LLM qualifications or those studying for the new SQE.
Hounga v Allen and Another [2014] UKSC 47
Case Summaries
Miss Hounga is of Nigerian nationality, now residing in England. In January 2007, when Miss Hounga was approximately 14 years of age, she came from Nigeria to the UK under a false identity in order to be granted a visitor’s visa for six months ...
Last modified: 6th Nov 2026
Babar Ahmad and others v United Kingdom [2012] ECHR 609
Case Summaries
Case Summary of Ahmad and others v United Kingdom (2013) 56 EHRR 1. Extradition and Article 3 of the ECHR. ...
Last modified: 6th Nov 2026
R v Horncastle and others [2009] UKSC 14
Case Summaries
Case Summary of R v Horncastle and others [2009] UKSC 14 (SC). Hearsay evidence and Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). R v Horncastle and others was an English legal case concerning the rules on hearsay evidence. ...
Last modified: 6th Nov 2026
Malone v Metropolitan Police Commissioner [1979] EWHC 2 (Ch)
Case Summaries
Malone (M) was charged with handling stolen property. During the Crown Court prosecution of M, the prosecution admitted that the Post Office (P) had intercepted M’s telephone conversations under the authority of the Secretary of State for use by the police. ...
Last modified: 6th Nov 2026
Z and Others v United Kingdom [2001] ECHR 333
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Z and Others v United Kingdom (Application No 29392/95). The applicants, four siblings, Z, a girl born in 1982, A, a boy born in 1984… ...
Last modified: 6th Nov 2026
R (Abbasi) v Foreign Secretary [2002] EWCA Civ 1598
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The Court of Appeal rejected an order compelling diplomatic action, while recognising a limited expectation that a British citizen’s request for assistance would be considered. ...
Last modified: 5th Nov 2026
R (Whiston) v Secretary of State for Justice [2014] UKSC 39
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The Supreme Court dismissed Whiston’s challenge to recall from home detention curfew, while Lady Hale questioned the majority’s wider reasoning about mandatory release. ...
Last modified: 5th Nov 2026
Kokkinakis v Greece [1993] ECHR 20
Case Summaries
Kokkinakis’s conviction for proselytism violated Article 9 because improper persuasion had not been established. The Court rejected his Article 7 complaint. ...
Last modified: 4th Nov 2026
Pay v Lancashire Probation Service [2003] UKEAT 1224_02_2910; Pay v UK
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Pay’s dismissal and human rights challenges: the EAT’s 2003 ruling and the European Court’s 2008 decision on private life, freedom of expression and proportionality. ...
Last modified: 4th Nov 2026
Matthews v United Kingdom [1999] ECHR 12
Case Summaries
The European Court of Human Rights held that excluding Gibraltar residents from European Parliament elections violated the right to vote. The United Kingdom remained responsible for the treaty arrangements, and the Parliament formed part of Gibraltar’s legislature. ...
Last modified: 4th Nov 2026
R (on the application of Jwanczuk) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2025] UKSC 42
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Mr Jwanczuk was refused a bereavement support payment because his severely disabled late wife had never paid national insurance contributions. The Supreme Court held that the contribution condition was justified, not discriminatory, and that appellate courts need not follow cross-jurisdictional decisions they consider wrong. Background Bereavement Support Payment (BSP), introduced by the Pensions Act 2014, […] ...
Last modified: 4th Nov 2026
In the matter of the applications by Martina Dillon, John McEvoy, Brigid Hughes and Lynda McManus for judicial review (Nos 1 and 2) [2026] UKSC 15
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Troubles victims challenged the Legacy Act 2023. The Supreme Court held that the Windsor Framework did not require courts to disapply the Act's immunity provisions. It also rejected the abstract finding that the ICRIR could never lawfully replace inquests, while unappealed incompatibility declarations stood. Background The Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023 replaced […] ...
Last modified: 4th Nov 2026
R (on the application of Maguire) v His Majesty’s Senior Coroner for Blackpool & Fylde and another [2023] UKSC 20
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Jacqueline Maguire died in hospital after becoming seriously ill at her care home. Her mother challenged the form of the inquest verdict. The issue was whether the evidence disclosed an arguable breach of the state’s duty to protect life under Article 2, requiring the jury to address the circumstances of death in greater detail. Jacqueline […] ...
Last modified: 4th Nov 2026
In the matter of an application by Rosaleen Dalton for Judicial Review (Northern Ireland) [2023] UKSC 36
Case Summaries
Rosaleen Dalton sought a new inquest into her father’s death in 1988. Her challenge raised a question of timing. Could the investigative duty under Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights be enforced in a UK court for a death that occurred more than twelve years before the Human Rights Act came into […] ...
Last modified: 4th Nov 2026
R (on the application of SC, CB and eight children) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and others [2021] UKSC 26
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In 2021 the Supreme Court considered whether limiting the child element of tax credit by family size infringed Convention rights. The policy affected more women than men and drew a distinction between children in different-sized households. The central issue was how a court should assess Parliament’s justification for those effects. The challenge concerned the law […] ...
Last modified: 4th Nov 2026
A and B v Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority and another [2021] UKSC 27
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The 2012 Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme excluded some applicants with unspent convictions. A and B, both recognised victims of trafficking, argued that applying the exclusion to them without discretion was discriminatory. Their previous offences had no connection with their exploitation. The applicants had been trafficked and exploited after convictions resulting in custodial sentences. They later […] ...
Last modified: 4th Nov 2026
R (on the application of AB) v Secretary of State for Justice [2021] UKSC 28
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AB’s appeal asked whether isolating a person under 18 in custody necessarily crosses the threshold for inhuman or degrading treatment under article 3 of the European Convention. The legal question was whether the court had to apply an automatic rule or examine the conditions and effects in the particular case. AB was under 18 and […] ...
Last modified: 4th Nov 2026
R (on the application of Elan-Cane) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] UKSC 56
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Christie Elan-Cane challenged the Home Office’s refusal to issue a passport with an “X” marker. The Supreme Court accepted that non-gendered identity fell within private life under article 8. The question was whether, in 2021, that right required the UK to provide a passport reflecting that identity. Elan-Cane identifies as non-gendered and had repeatedly asked […] ...
Last modified: 4th Nov 2026
In the matter of applications by Margaret McQuillan, Francis McGuigan and Mary McKenna for judicial review (Northern Ireland) [2021] UKSC 55
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The cases concerned two different questions about police investigations into events during the Troubles. Did the Human Rights Act require a further investigation decades later? And was the police decision on a particular allegation lawful? The Supreme Court rejected the claims of a Convention duty but upheld the quashing of one decision on ordinary judicial […] ...
Last modified: 4th Nov 2026
R (on the application of Z and another) v Hackney London Borough Council and another [2020] UKSC 40
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A charity letting social housing in Hackney only to members of the Orthodox Jewish community did not act unlawfully under the Equality Act 2010. The Supreme Court held that its policy was a proportionate way of meeting that community’s particular needs and disadvantages, and that a separate charity exemption did not require the charity to […] ...
Last modified: 4th Nov 2026
In re Gallagher and the joined appeals of P, G and W (criminal records disclosure) [2019] UKSC 3
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People with old and comparatively minor criminal records challenged rules that still required those records to be disclosed for work with children or vulnerable adults. The Supreme Court held that the revised schemes were clear enough to be “in accordance with the law” under article 8, and that disclosure by defined categories, rather than case-by-case […] ...
Last modified: 4th Nov 2026
R (on the applications of Hallam and Nealon) v Secretary of State for Justice [2019] UKSC 2
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The Supreme Court refused, by a majority, to declare incompatible with the presumption of innocence a rule that compensation for a miscarriage of justice is payable only where fresh evidence shows beyond reasonable doubt that the person did not commit the offence. Mr Hallam and Mr Nealon had their convictions quashed as unsafe after years […] ...
Last modified: 4th Nov 2026
In the matter of an application by Hugh Jordan for Judicial Review (Northern Ireland) [2019] UKSC 9
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The Supreme Court held that a relative who complains of delay in an article 2 investigation may claim damages under the Human Rights Act 1998 as soon as the delay itself is a breach, and need not wait until the inquest is over. A court may stay that claim, but only where the stay is […] ...
Last modified: 4th Nov 2026
Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis v DSD and another [2018] UKSC 11
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Two women, anonymised as DSD and NBV, who had been sexually assaulted by the London black-cab driver John Worboys, sued the Metropolitan Police for failing to investigate those crimes effectively. The Supreme Court dismissed the police's appeal. A majority held that article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights requires an effective investigation into […] ...
Last modified: 4th Nov 2026
In the matter of an application by Kevin Maguire for Judicial Review (Northern Ireland) [2018] UKSC 17
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The UK Supreme Court held that article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights does not entitle a legally aided defendant to insist that a junior barrister act as his leading counsel at public expense where a Bar rule requires senior counsel unless none is available. Kevin Maguire’s wish to retain Mark Barlow in […] ...
Last modified: 4th Nov 2026
