Scottish Human Rights Law Group

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 …

In collaboration with the Environmental Law Centre Scotland and the Centre for International Public Health Policy, the SHRLG presents a seminar on Public Interest Litigation and Legal Aid in Scotland.
The Gill Review has considered the issue of public interest litigation and has made recommendations for change.  What should those changes be and how do other jurisdictions deal with questions of …

 
A local authority (Glasgow City Council) undertook emergency repairs to a property in 1997 after serving a series of repair notices to the petitioner, the property owner and her representative. They then sent her a bill £53,056.88 in respect of the works done.

 
The Lord Ordinary held that the Scottish Ministers’ failure to determine the pursuers’ application for planning permission for the development of a “superquarry” at a site on the Isle of Harris for which permission had first been sought in March 1991 was in breach of the pursuer’s Article 6 rights to have a contestation over their civil rights determined within …

The Convention requirement for respect for property rights was unsuccessfully relied upon in the context of a claim for compensation by fish farmers whose stock was destroyed by Government order to prevent the spread of highly infectious fish diseases.
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