Scottish Human Rights Law Group

Jacqueline Hodgson and Victor Tadros (University of Warwick)
Modern Law Review M.L.R. (2009) Vol.72 No.6 Pages 984-998
Comments on the House of Lords judgement in R. v G on the possession of information likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism contrary to the Terrorism Act 2000 s.58. Discusses whether information which could also be useful …

Stephen Skinner (University of Exeter)
European Human Rights Law Review E.H.R.L.R. (2010) No.1 Pages 85-93
Discusses the implications of the European Court of Justice decision in Giuliani v Italy (23458/02) in which it was established that the 2001 shooting of a G8 summit demonstrator in Genoa by an auxiliary carabiniere did not constitute a breach of the European Convention on Human Rights …

Helen Wildbore
European Human Rights Law Review E.H.R.L.R. (2010) No.1 Pages 59-72
Outlines the main findings and recommendations of the Human Rights Inquiry undertaken by the Equality and Human RightsCommission into the role of the Human Rights Act 1998 and how to develop the current human rights framework. Examines: (1) the impact of legal cases; (2) the impact of the Human Rights …

[2010] UKSC 7
Although the Crown’s failure to disclose to an accused material which might have materially weakened its case, or materially strengthened the accused’s case, had been incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights 1950 art.6, that did not mean that the trial had been unfair. An appeal court would find that a trial had been unfair only if …

[2010] EWCA Civ 56
Although the system of single payment of child tax credit to the person mainly responsible for the child indirectly discriminated against men it was justified as a proportionate means of pursuing a legitimate aim of social policy.
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