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Article 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.
Articles in: Art. 06 Right to a Fair Trial
Kulkarni v Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Trust. High Court, 2009 [ECWA] Civ 789
July 23, 2009 | No CommentsNew Directions on the Grant of Legal Aid for Defamation or Verbal Injury
July 21, 2009 | No CommentsIn the wake of the McLibel case (Steele and Morris v United Kingdom), the Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 2007 gave power to SLAB to grant civil legal aid for actions of defamation or verbal injury. The Scottish Ministers also issued directions to SLAB regarding the exercise of that power. Those directions issued in 2007 were thought to be unclear by …
Art. 06 Right to a Fair Trial, Art. 08 Right to Private and Family Life, Legal AidNew Rules for State Funded Legal Representation at Children’s Hearings
July 20, 2009 | No CommentsFollowing the referral of a devolution minute to the Inner House in the case where a parent with learning difficulties challenged the absence of a scheme of state funded legal representation at Children’s Hearings, the Scottish Ministers have introduced new rules. The Panel, at a business hearing or at the hearing itself, can appoint a solicitor to appear with and …
Art. 06 Right to a Fair Trial, Art. 08 Right to Private and Family Life, Art. 14 Prohibition of Discrimination, Child & Family Law, Legal Aid‘Legal Aid Rights Must Not Become Popularity Contest’
July 13, 2009 | No CommentsThis article appeared in The Scotsman on 16th February, 2009
by John Scott
Who should we help – the rapist or his victim? Not even a real question, is it?
In the Scottish Parliament this month Christina McKelvie MSP criticised the grant of legal aid to Adam Carruthers. Carruthers was jailed for 11 years in 2001 for raping two women while serving as …
Gäfgen v. Germany
July 11, 2009 | No Comments(An example of circumstances which might be suggested used to justify torture, or the threat of torture.)
In the case of Gäfgen v. Germany,
The European Court of Human Rights (Fifth Section), sitting as a Chamber composed of:
Peer Lorenzen, President, Rait Maruste, Volodymyr Butkevych,Renate Jaeger,Isabelle Berro-Lefèvre,Mirjana Lazarova Trajkovska,Zdravka Kalaydjieva, judges, and Claudia Westerdiek, Section Registrar,
Having deliberated in private on 20 May 2008, Delivers the following judgment, …
