Racial harassment claim by Jewish teacher over union’s Israel-Palestine policies fails – Robert...
Mr R Fraser -v- University & College Union – Case Numbers: 2203390/201 – Read judgment In this case, a member of the Union brought various claims of harassment related to his “race, religion or belief” under section 57 of the...Read more...
United Kingdom: Employment Newsletter - March 2013 - Bircham Dyson Bell LLP
RIGHT TO MANIFEST RELIGIOUS BELIEF By Jesper Christensen The key issue for the European Court of Human Rights in Eweida and Others v UK was whether a fair balance had been struck between an individual's fundamental right to...Read more...
Animal rights activists banned from UK television await court ruling
Next week, judges will give their ruling in a case brought by United Kingdom animal rights activists banned from promoting their cause on television. The European Court of Human Rights judgment in the case of Animal Defenders...Read more...
European Court Refuses to Extradite Mentally ill man to US
The European Court of Human Rights ruled that extraditing a man diagnosed with schizophrenia to the United States would a violation of his human rights. “In light of the medical evidence before it, the Court found that there...Read more...
_No debate, no vote, no democracy’ as the Agricultural Wages Board is abolished today
The fact that more than 60 years of pay protection for 150,000 rural workers in England and Wales was abolished today (Tuesday 16 April) without a proper parliamentary debate is ‘a national disgrace’, Unite, the largest union...Read more...
I.K. v. Austria
I.K. v. Austria, Application no. 2964/12, Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights, 28 March 2013, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/516412864.html [accessed 15 April 2013] This is not a UNHCR publication....Read more...
Marriage law changes coming soon
Marriage law amendments that will grant those who undergo gender reassignment surgery the right to marry have been drafted and will be on the parliamentary agenda “in the coming days”, a Government spokesman has said. The...Read more...
Court rejects patient's lawsuit despite Strasbourg's stand
ČTK A Brno court on Thursday rejected a patient's lawsuit against a psychiatric clinic whose staff, he said, humiliated him and caused mental harm and a hand injury to him by forcibly tying him to the bed, a practice the...Read more...
Firoz Muneer c. Belgique
Firoz Muneer c. Belgique, Requête no 56005/10, Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights, 11 April 2013, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/516c2d774.html [accessed 15 April 2013] This is not a UNHCR...Read more...
Constitutional Court could grant right to conscientious objection: Judge-Rapporteur
Turkey’s Constitutional Court could rule to implement in Turkish legislation a provision introducing an alternative option of civil service to the compulsory military service if there is an individual complaint on the matter,...Read more...
Northern Cyprus to legalize gay sex
The government of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is set to decrliminalize gay sex Homosexuality is to be legalized in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), if the measures drawn by government are approved....Read more...
My testimony at the parliament phone-tapping commission
I was in Ankara yesterday as a witness at the Parliament’s research sub-commission on illegal phone tapping. In the meeting headed by Justice and Development Party (AK Party) Elazığ deputy Şuay Alpay, I presented a detail...Read more...
Euro court rejects case on trial length
A Turkish compensation board has been recognized by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) as the final domestic avenue that Turks must apply to before taking any complaint to the European court. The ruling was issued after...Read more...
Turkey's parliament passes anti-terrorism law reform
ANKARA,— Turkey's parliament on Thursday passed long-awaited legislation to bring its widely criticised anti-terror laws level with European standards, and which could see the release of thousands of prisoners suspected of...Read more...
Govt appoints Council for relations with ECHR
BELGRADE - The Serbian government constituted on Friday the Council for relations with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) and the Council for Gender Equality. Slavoljub Caric who represents Serbia before the ECHR was...Read more...
Human rights: Convicted rapist awarded damages for breach of liberty
The European Court of Human Rights has courted controversy by awarding a convicted child rapist damages for unlawful deprivation of liberty, reports Sky News. Mustafa Abdi, from Somalia, arrived in the country in 1995 claiming...Read more...
Turkey's 4th judicial package passes into law with critical last-minute amendment
Tuesday, September 13 2011 , Your time is 15:58:00 POLITICS > Turkey's 4th judicial package passes into law with critical last-minute amendment ANKARA - Hürriyet Daily News Those charged with committing propaganda crimes will...Read more...
Government urged by European body to 'expedite' abortion legislation - Irish Times -- 05:02
European Court of Human Rights committee talks of ‘chilling factor’ of current legal situation on women and doctors First published: Thu, Apr 11, 2013, 06:00 A report from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) Committee of...Read more...
Turkey Found Guilty of Torture "On the Street"
The European Court of Human Rights found Turkey guilty of violating the torture ban, ordering the Turkish state to pay Yasin Böber, a police violence victim, a sum of 21,500 euros. The European Court of Human Rights found...Read more...
Armenian side waits for response from European Court of Human Rights on Safarov’s case
YEREVAN, APRIL 10, ARMENPRESS: On the occasion of the extradition of the Azerbaijani murderer Ramil Safarov, who assassinated the Armenian officer Gurgen Margaryan, the Armenian side expects for a decision from the European...Read more...
Moldova: Bucking The Trend, Moldova Emerging As Regional Leader In LGBT Rights
A.C. has spent her life striving to be perfect, in looks and behavior alike. As a child in southern Moldova, she was friendly and well-behaved. At medical school in Chisinau she spent her evenings over her books rather than...Read more...
Does the New Pope Have Anything to Say About Medically Assisted Procreation in Italy
ROME, April 9, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- The Pope has not spoken out on the topic but SQ Law, a full service European legal group with expertise in medically assisted procreation (MAP), was invited to speak at a recent...Read more...
Savita Halappanavar Inquest - Day Three
Savita Halappanavar's inquest continues today with further evidence from a consultant who treated the 31-year-old at Galway University Hospital where she died following a miscarriage. Obstetrician Dr Katherine Astbury is...Read more...
CIA prison will haunt Poland
Poland's role in hosting a CIA "black site" is now certain. Whether the government will voluntarily admit it is another matter. Amnesty International protest against the CIA's rendition program. Flickr/Ric James . Some rights...Read more...
Right to life and abortion
A few articles published in the wake of the International Commission of Jurists’ report have criticised the findings of the commission, accusing it, among other things of “redefining and reshaping human rights as part of gender...Read more...
European court finds Turkey in breach of human rights convention
The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg found Turkey had violated article two of the convention, which sets out the right to life, and that Menekse Sentrk had been the victim of "blatant dysfunction" on the part of...Read more...
Challenging Strasbourg ruling puts prisons in spotlight
Italy's 'degrading, inhumane' detainment conditions under fire 10 April, 18:39 (ANSA) - Rome, April 10 - Italy has formally challenged a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights ordering Italy to correct the "degrading and...Read more...
The European Court of Human Rights has upheld the Czech judiciary’s ban of the extremist Czech...
Government approves reform of parties financing The Czech government on Wednesday approved legislation reforming the financing of political parties. The bill will require parties to establish transparent bank accounts...Read more...
Human rights have disappeared from ‘Working Together’ - Allan Norman
‘Working Together to Safeguard Children’ is the lead piece of statutory guidance on… well, working together to safeguard children. Originally published in 1999, a new edition was published in 2006 following the changes brought...Read more...
EFD Rights Watch: Sergeant arrested after his alleged “pun tweet”… Euro court fines Turkey 80,000...
Turkish sergeant arrested after his ‘pun tweet’ from Hurriyet Daily News A military court arrested a Turkish first sergeant in the eastern province of Ağrı for allegedly. Euro court fines Turkey 80,000 euros from Hurriyet Daily...Read more...
