Scottish Human Rights Law Group

SHRLG contributing editor Niall McCluskey recently wrote the following article on the Scottish Government’s review of the role of the Supreme Court:
SNP ministers believe that the independence of Scotland’s Criminal Justice system must be defended, and the best way to do this is to remove the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court over devolution minutes in criminal cases. Yet since the …

The Scottish Human Rights Law Group, in conjunction with the Scottish Young Lawyers Association, is pleased to announce a seminar providing insight into the practice of human rights law.  The event will take place at 6pm on Thursday 23 June 2011 at Drummond Miller’s Edinburgh offices, 32 Moray Place.

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 …