Deb and Graham characterise my argument as follows: “the right to life under Article 2 is absolute and allows no exception; ...

Deb and Graham characterise my argument as follows: “the right to life under Article 2 is absolute and allows no exception; there is a negative obligation upon the UK not to take life; any euthanasia ...

Tindall and another (Appellants) v Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police (Respondent) [2024] UKSC 33, on appeal from [2022] ...

In CAO (Respondent) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (Appellant) (Northern Ireland) [2024] UKSC 32, the Supreme Court considered an appeal from the Home Secretary against a decision of the ...

There are many well-tuned arguments both for and against the liberalisation of the UK’s strict euthanasia laws, some more helpful than others. This piece is not concerned with weighing up the policy ...

Article 2 of the ECHR protects the right to life. That article contains two distinct substantive obligations: “the general obligation to protect by law the right to life, and the prohibition of ...

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Following our recent Law Pod UK episode on judicial review, this case contains some useful guidelines to the differences between the kinds of remedy available via judicial review versus statutory ...

Dame Diana Johnson, Crime and Policing Minister, has stated that she is “confident that the Judgment has also been given in Abu Qamar v Secretary of State for the Home Department, a human rights ...

In this guest post, Rajiv Shah argues that the provision of assisted suicide in the England and Wales via the NHS would constitute a substantive breach of the negative obligation imposed on the State ...