Scottish Human Rights Law Group

[2009] EWHC 3151 (Ch)
While clandestine filming undertaken by the BBC with a view to exposing failings in a care home for the elderly might have seriously infringed residents’ rights to privacy under the European Convention on Human Rights 1950 art.8, it would not give rise to a sufficiently serious infringement of privacy rights to outweigh rights to freedom of expression …

The Inner House of the Court of Session has ruled that the Scottish Information Commissioner did not treat Glasgow and Dundee City Councils fairly, when deciding Freedom of Information cases involving land sales records.  The Councils were instructed to release this information but successfully appealed the decision of the Commissioner.
It was held that “The requests were invalid in that they …

The 2009 Denning Lecture, delivered by Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury Mr
To read the speech in full, please click here.

by Lord Neuburger of Abbotsbury, Master of the Rolls
A lecture on Lord Atkin’s significant conrtribution to the development of the common law in the 20th century, including, among others, Donoghue v Stevenson [1932 AC 562] and Bell v Lever Brothers [1932 Ac 161].
“Victory without law and the rule of just law would have been no victory at all. That is what …

The Home Office is introducing changes to the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) following a public consultation. The changes include measures to: raise the rank of authorising officer for RIPA techniques in local authorities to senior executive; give elected councillors a role in overseeing the way local authorities use covert investigatory techniques; require constituents’ communications with MPs on constituency …