Scottish Human Rights Law Group

The ECHR decided that deporting a sex offender who had indefinite leave to remain in UK and had lived in UK for 26 years was a breach of Art 8. The deportation was an interference with the applicant’s private and family life and was not proportionate.
See Times Law Report December 15 2009
Maria Clarke

The House of Lords and House of Commons Joint Committee on Human Rights published its 25th report of session 2008-2009 on 20th November.  This report considers children’s rights. 

The Children’s Rights Bill, which is a Private Members Bill, was given its first reading in the House of Lords on 19 November 2009.  The Bill  proposes the incorporation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, and the Optional Protocol on …

K, a disabled person,  raised a devolution issue that articles 6, 8 and 14 of the ECHR were breached by the absence of a statutory provision permitting her to receive legal aid for a children’s hearing in respect of her child.

The following is the text of the talk given by Zoe Picton-Howell, an English qualified solicitor, now resident in Scotland, as one of the speakers at the Scottish Parliament Festival of Politics event “Better Rights, Better Lives, Better Futures” in August 2009.  The event which was open to the general public, aimed to examine the impact of Scottish Devolution, ten …