Scottish Human Rights Law Group

The Scottish Public Law Group’s have announced their annual update conference.  The event will be held on 13 June 2011 in Edinburgh and will include update sessions on several aspects of public law in Scotland and England, including the ECHR.
Speakers and chairs include Lord Hodge, Lord Carloway, Professor John Curtice (Strathclyde), Professor Himsworth (Edinburgh), Professor Barnard (Cambridge), Professor Page (Dundee), …

The British Institute of International and Comparative Law is holding an event entitled “European Convergence? The European Union’s participation on the European Convention of Human Rights”.
The event is being held on 20th May at the University of Edinburgh.  Further details can be found here.

The Outer House held that a decision of the Electoral Registration Officer to refuse a prisoner’s application to be included on the electoral roll was not incompatible with EU law.
The petitioner was a convicted prisoner serving a sentence.  He applied for judicial review of the compatibility with his EU law rights of the decision of the Electoral Registration Officer to …

The Inner House refused an application by IA for leave to appeal under section 103B of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 against a decision of the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal, on the grounds that a UNHCR decision on an applicant’s refugee status is not binding on UK courts.
The applicant claimed that requiring him to leave the UK in …

The following article was published in the Scots Law Times on 18th March 2011 (S.L.T. 2011, 9, 45-50), and is reproduced with the kind permission of the publisher, and of the author, SHRLG contributing editor Gordon Junor.
 
A Pinnock defence – in Scotland
Gordon Junor
The author considers the possible implications of the Supreme Court decision in Manchester City Council v Pinnock [2010] …