Scottish Human Rights Law Group

INTRODUCTION TO THE INDIVIDUAL COMMUNICATIONS REVIEW MECHANISMS
By Kasey Lowe
Each of the nine core United Nations human rights treaties has an embedded oversight body comprised of experts in the field specific to that treaty.  These individuals and their work on the committees are not representative of their home governments and though the considerations for committee members vary slightly among the treaties …

Commentaries, International Law

By Kasey Lowe
On 8 June 2009 the United Kingdom ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN Doc.A/61/611) just over two years after signing the Convention on 30 March 2007.

Commentaries, Discrimination Law, EU Law, International Law

 
 
The Inner House of the Court of Session refused an application by a woman of Palestinian ethnicity who sought to set aside an interlocutor of the Lord Ordinary refusing her application for statutory review under the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 s. 101  of the Immigration Appeal Tribunal’s refusal to give her permission to appeal.   

Art. 06 Right to a Fair Trial, Asylum & Immigration Law, International Law

 
Structural impartiality and the French commercial court
 
The defenders sought to appeal against the pursuer’s registration, pursuant to the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 and the Brussels Convention, for enforcement in Scotland of a judgment of the Cour d’Appel de Bordeaux. The defenders contended that French tribunals and commercial courts in general, and the Tribunal de Commerce in particular, lacked …

Art. 06 Right to a Fair Trial, EU Law, International Law

TEST

Agricultural & Fisheries Law, Art. 02 Right to Life, Art. 03 Prohibition of Torture, Art. 04 Freedom from Slavery, Art. 05 Right to Liberty and Security, Art. 06 Right to a Fair Trial, Art. 07 No Punishment without Law, Art. 08 Right to Private and Family Life, Art. 09 Freedom of Thought, Conscience and Religion, Art. 10 Freedom of Expression, Art. 11 Freedom of Assembly and Association, Art. 12 Right to Marry and Found a Family, Art. 13 Effective Remedy, Art. 14 Prohibition of Discrimination, Art. 17 Abuse of Rights, Art. 34 Victim Status, Art. 41 Just Satisfaction, Asylum & Immigration Law, Child & Family Law, Civil Procedure, Commercial and Corporate Law, Competition Law, Consumer Law, Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure, Data Protection and Freedom of Information, Discrimination Law, EU Law, Ecclesiastical Law and Freedom of Religion, Education Law, Employment and Industrial Relations Law, Environmental and Planning Law, Events, Health and Safety Law, Housing and Homelessness Law, Inheritance and Trusts Law, Insolvency and Personal Bankruptcy, Insurance Law, Intellectual Property Law, International Law, Licensing Law, Media Law, Medical Law, Mental Health, Misc., News, Pensions Law, Police Law, Prisons Law, Property Law, Protocol 1, Art. 1 Right to Private Property, Protocol 1, Art. 2 Right to Education, Protocol 1, Art. 3 Right to Free and Fair Elections, Public Procurement, Regulatory and Disciplinary Law, Social Security Law, Sports Law, Taxation