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Housing Law Monitor H.L.M. (2010) January/February Pages 10-11
Reports on the Privy Council decision in Rodriguez v Minister of Housing of Gibraltar on whether a housing policy, which prohibited an application for a joint tenancy between long-term same sex partners on the basis that they were not married and had no children, constituted unlawful discrimination contrary to the Constitution of Gibraltar …
Articles in: Discrimination Law
Gibraltar, Same Sex Couples, and Discrimination
February 22, 2010 | No CommentsLegal Aid Under Labour in Government
February 22, 2010 | No CommentsFiona Bawdon
Legal Action (2010) February Pages 8-9
This, the first in a series of articles on the policies of the three main political parties relating to legal aid and legal service, examines the policies of the Labour party. Reviews Labour’s record on criminal justice, civil liberties, race discrimination and legal aid. Notes high and low points in Labour’s record since it …
R (E) (Respondent) v Governing Body of JFS and the Admissions Appeal Panel of JFS (Appellants) and others : R (E) (Respondent) v Governing Body of JFS and the Admissions Appeal Panel of JFS and others (United Synagogue) (Appellants) [2009] UKSC 15
January 28, 2010 | No CommentsThe Supreme Court upheld the decision of the Court of Appeal, that the requirement to qualify for admission at a Jewish faith school that the Respondent’s mother had to be Jewish, by descent or by conversion, was a test of ethnicity which contravened section 1 of the Race Relations Act 1976.
A summary of the Judgment can be found here.
The full …
The Impact of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Human Rights of Disabled Children in the United Kingdom
January 22, 2010 | No CommentsBy Zoe Picton-Howell, Solicitor (England & Wales) (Hons)
Doctoral Research Student, School of Law, University of Edinburgh
1. Disability as a Human rights Issue
The UNCRC is the first international human rights treaty to expressly recognise disability as a human rights issue. State parties to the UNCRC must “respect and ensure the rights set forth in the present Convention to each child …
Fiona Davidson v Dallas McMillan
August 6, 2009 | No Comments4 August 2009
This was an appeal from the Employment Appeal Tribunal. A tribunal involving allegations of sexual discrimination, and subject to a restricted reporting order, settled before the evidence was all heard. A journalist asked that the RRO be lifted. The respondents, a law firm, and the individual, B, accused of perpetrating the behaviour complained of, objected that she had …
