Scottish Human Rights Law Group

The Joint Committee on Human Rights fifteenth report of the Parliamentary session 09-10 has been published, the summary of the report on Enhancing Parliament’s role in relation to human rights judgments states:
“This is our fourth report of the Parliament dealing with adverse judgments by the European Court of Human Rights and declarations of incompatibility issued by the domestic courts under …

Andrew Norfolk
Times, February 11, 2010, 18
The Court of Appeal (CA) has ruled that Hindus and Sikhs in Britain can cremate their dead on funeral pyres. The landmark ruling follows a case brought by Davender Kumar Ghai, a 71-year-old Hindu, who wanted the right to be cremated by “sacred fire”, according to the ancient diktats of his religion. Mr Ghai’s request …

The Court of Appeal’s decision in Copsey –v- WWB Devon Clays Ltd [2005] EWCA Civ 932 deals with the application of Article 9(1) of the European Convention on Human Rights in the context of the question of whether an employer was justified in dismissing a devout Christian who refused to accept a variation in his working hours which would have …

The applicant complained of having been fined for practising Muslim rituals, of not having had an effective remedy to challenge this, and of not having been invited to appear at the court hearing of his appeal.

Percy v Church of Scotland Board of National Mission concerned a claim by an associate minister in a parish of the Church of Scotland that she had suffered unlawful sex discrimination in the handling of an allegation of misconduct made against her, namely that she allegedly had an affair with a married elder in the parish.  The employment tribunal dismissed …