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.
R (Mott) v Environment Agency [2018] UKSC 10
Case Summaries
The Supreme Court held that catch limits on Mr Mott’s historic Severn Estuary salmon fishery unlawfully interfered with his right to peaceful enjoyment of possessions unless compensation was paid. The limits were an environmental control, not a formal expropriation, but they removed at least 95 per cent of the commercial benefit of his lease and […] ...
Last modified: 4th Nov 2026
In the matter of an application by the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission for Judicial Review (Northern Ireland) [2018] UKSC 27
Case Summaries
In 2018 the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission brought an abstract challenge to the abortion legislation then in force. A majority concluded that the Commission lacked standing. The Court therefore could not declare the law incompatible, although a differently constituted majority expressed views about its impact under article 8. The Commission challenged provisions of the […] ...
Last modified: 4th Nov 2026
R (AR) v Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police and another [2018] UKSC 47
Case Summaries
An enhanced criminal record certificate may include details of a serious criminal allegation even though the applicant was acquitted, where disclosure is a proportionate interference with the right to respect for private life. The Supreme Court so held in dismissing AR’s challenge to certificates recording a rape charge and his acquittal. It also held that […] ...
Last modified: 4th Nov 2026
In the matter of an application by Siobhan McLaughlin for Judicial Review (Northern Ireland) [2018] UKSC 48
Case Summaries
Under the Northern Ireland legislation in force when her partner died, Siobhan McLaughlin could not receive widowed parent’s allowance because they had never married. The majority asked why a benefit intended to help a surviving parent care for children depended on the parents’ marital status. The allowance and the earlier decisions Widowed parent’s allowance was […] ...
Last modified: 3rd Nov 2026
Lee v Ashers Baking Company Ltd and others [2018] UKSC 49
Case Summaries
The owners of a Christian bakery refused to ice a cake with the slogan “Support Gay Marriage” because they believed that the message conflicted with Biblical teaching. The Supreme Court held that this was not discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation: the objection was to the message, and the same cake would have been refused […] ...
Last modified: 3rd Nov 2026
In the matter of an application by Denise Brewster for Judicial Review (Northern Ireland) [2017] UKSC 8
Case Summaries
Lenny McMullan died two days after becoming engaged to Denise Brewster, his partner of some ten years. She was refused a survivor’s pension from his Northern Ireland local government scheme because an unmarried partner had to be nominated, and the appeal proceeded on the basis that no nomination had been made. The Supreme Court held […] ...
Last modified: 3rd Nov 2026
FirstGroup Plc v Paulley [2017] UKSC 4
Case Summaries
When a passenger with a pushchair would not leave the wheelchair space, Doug Paulley could not board a FirstGroup bus. The Supreme Court held that simply asking her to move, and doing nothing if she refused, was not enough: where she could reasonably move elsewhere on the bus, drivers should insist and sometimes wait briefly. […] ...
Last modified: 3rd Nov 2026
R (Hicks and others) v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis [2017] UKSC 9
Case Summaries
Four people arrested in central London on the day of the royal wedding were held for a few hours to prevent an imminent breach of the peace and released without charge once that risk had passed. They said this purely preventive detention breached article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights because they were […] ...
Last modified: 3rd Nov 2026
SXH v The Crown Prosecution Service [2017] UKSC 30
Case Summaries
The Supreme Court held that a prosecutor’s decision to charge someone does not, of itself, fall within article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights where there is reasonable cause to believe the person guilty and the offence is compatible with article 8. SXH, a young Somali woman who claimed asylum on arrival in […] ...
Last modified: 3rd Nov 2026
R (Coll) v Secretary of State for Justice [2017] UKSC 40
Case Summaries
There were enough approved-premises places for women leaving prison. The difficulty was where those places were. With only six women’s premises across England and Wales, a woman required to live in one faced a much greater risk than a man of being sent far from home. Could a public service discriminate because of that difference […] ...
Last modified: 3rd Nov 2026
Khuja (Appellant) v Times Newspapers Limited and others (Respondents) (formerly known as PNM (Appellant) v Times Newspapers Limited and others (Respondents)) [2017] UKSC 49
Case Summaries
Mr Khuja was named in open court during the trial of other people. He had been arrested during the investigation and released without charge. When newspapers proposed to identify him in reports of the proceedings, he sought an interim injunction. The difficult question was how much weight to give the harm that identification could cause […] ...
Last modified: 3rd Nov 2026
Brown v The Parole Board for Scotland, The Scottish Ministers and another [2017] UKSC 69
Case Summaries
After recall from licence, a prisoner serving an extended sentence argued that the failure to provide suitable rehabilitation courses made his continued detention arbitrary under article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights. The Supreme Court held that the duty to provide a real opportunity for rehabilitation applies where a prisoner is detained during […] ...
Last modified: 3rd Nov 2026
R (C) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2017] UKSC 72
Case Summaries
C challenged two benefits policies. One kept a record of changes to a customer’s personal details. The other limited who could see that record. Restricting access protected privacy but could itself prompt a question at the counter when an ordinary enquiry took longer. The Court had to assess both sides of that difficulty. C held […] ...
Last modified: 3rd Nov 2026
O’Connor v Bar Standards Board [2017] UKSC 78
Case Summaries
Ms O’Connor alleged that her professional regulator had discriminated against her by bringing and pursuing disciplinary charges. Her damages claim would be late if the one-year period ran from the disciplinary tribunal’s decision. It was in time if the regulator’s conduct continued through her successful appeal. The Court examined the role the Bar Standards Board […] ...
Last modified: 3rd Nov 2026
PGA Tour, Inc. v Martin, 532 U.S. 661 (2001)
Case Summaries
PGA Tour, Inc. v. Martin was a significant case in the realm of sports law and disability rights. Casey Martin, a professional golfer, suffered from a degenerative circulatory disorder that impeded his ability to walk golf courses. ...
Last modified: 3rd Nov 2026
PJS v News Group Newspapers Ltd [2016] UKSC 26
Case Summaries
The Supreme Court continued, until trial, an interim injunction stopping the Sun on Sunday from identifying PJS, an entertainer, and publishing details of sexual encounters he had had with another couple. The story had already appeared abroad and online, but the majority held that unrestricted newspaper coverage in England and Wales would be a further […] ...
Last modified: 3rd Nov 2026
