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By 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 …
Articles in: Medical Law
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 Comments‘Dangerous Guidance’ – Criminal Law and Assisted Suicide
December 23, 2009 | No CommentsThe author of this article, John Keown of Georgetown University, considers the DPP’s interim guidelines, outlining the factors to be taken into account in determining whether it is in the public interest to …
Art. 02 Right to Life, Art. 08 Right to Private and Family Life, Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure, Medical LawKulkarni v Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Trust. High Court, 2009 [ECWA] Civ 789
July 23, 2009 | No CommentsArticle 6(1) ECHR
Summary
Right to legal representation at a disciplinary hearing. Article 6(1) could in some circumstances guarantee a right to legal representation to an employee facing particularly serious consequences following disciplinary proceedings.
Kulkarni v Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Trust
June 15, 2009 | No Comments2008 IRLR 949 (QBD)
Article 6(1) ECHR
Summary
Right to legal representation at a disciplinary hearing. Article 6(1) did not guarantee a right to legal representation to an employee (who was a junior doctor) at a disciplinary hearing when there was an express term in the employee’s contract of employment providing that there was no right to legal representation at disciplinary hearings.
Evans v UK
May 5, 2009 | No CommentsA woman sought dispensation of her ex-husband’s consent to the use of frozen embryos, which had been created during the couple’s marriage.
Art. 02 Right to Life, Art. 08 Right to Private and Family Life, Art. 14 Prohibition of Discrimination, Child & Family Law, Medical Law, Strasbourg Case Law