In the news The International Federation for Human Rights (Féderation Internationale pour les droits humains, FIDH) has ...

Koran burning conviction overturned: blasphemy law cannot be introduced via the back door under the Public Order Act ...

The number of hate crimes committed in England and Wales has risen since the previous year, according to statistics released ...

Kemi Badenoch has confirmed that Conservative Party policy will be to withdraw the UK from the European Convention on Human ...

In 2005, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights handed down its landmark decision in Hirst v the United Kingdom, finding that the effect of section 3 of the Representation of the ...

Episode 227: It’s been an interesting year in the law, with Richard Hermer KC and the Shadow Attorney General Lord Wolfson of Tredegar joining battle on what constitutes the “thin” or “thick” concept ...

R (Ferguson) v HM Assistant Coroner for Sefton, Knowlsey and St Helens [2025] EWHC 1901 (Admin) concerned a challenge by the next of kin of Joseph Farley, who died after jumping from the fourteenth ...

The Weekly Round Up: Palestine Action, the Hague Group, a discharged MoD super-injunction, and freeholders' Convention rights ...

In ALR and others v Chancellor of the Exchequer [2025] EWHC 1467 (Admin), the High Court has dismissed a challenge against the government’s manifesto policy of adding VAT to private school fees. The ...

This was an application for judicial review brought by an animal welfare charity challenging North East Lincolnshire Council’s decision to grant planning permission for the UK’s first full commercial ...