The United Nations conducts a quinquennial review of its member states compliance with the UN Declaration on Human Rights. Who knew?
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A British Bill of Rights
The Govt. are finally consulting on the Human Rights Act. The closing date is 8th March 2022 11:59. Here are my notes The first page or two detail the questions from the consultation, you can skip them by clicking here. …
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The right to national self-determination
While doing some thinking as part of my work on AEIP, I wondered where the “right of national self-determination” came from. It is not defined in the UN Charter, the UNDHR or the European Convention although on thinking about it, these were all written by Nation States and so they would not be keen to…
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Legal Aid
We need to do something about Legal Aid. The ECHR Article 6 guarantees funding for a defence in a trial; it seems the sea-lawyers in the MoJ feel that de-funding Judicial Reviews and civil cases is OK then. While benefit disputes and immigration are key areas, everyone should have the right to go to the…
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ECHR Article , Right to a fair trial
And now No 6. Here are my notes …
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Fair Trial and Labour’s ‘fast track’
A note on Labour’s ‘fast track’ disciplinary process and Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights. Labour’s disciplinary determination process for complaints that allege prejudice or harassment were changed at Conference 2019. The investigation is conducted by staff, who then present a charge and proposed sanction to a panel/sub committee of the NEC…
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ECHR Article 11, Freedom of Association
I am brought to consider Article 11, of the ECHR and “Freedom of Association”. The second thing totalitarian parties do is register, regulate and then ban opposition political parties. And so I am concerned about the over-regulation of political parties. Here as ever are my notes.
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Magna Carta
As part of my English revolution reading, prompted by Arden’s Left Handed Liberty, I took a look at Magna Carta itself, what did it codify/concede? How relevant is it today? Here are my notes. …
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Constitutionalism beyond Liberalism
I was challenged by Michael Wilkinson of the LSE on my interpretation of he importance of the Cherry/Miller ruling on the legality of the 2019 prorogue. Suggested or discovered reading, included a review of a book he co-edited. My notes have lain around on my hard disk and I decided to tidy them up. Here…
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Venezuela
On Venezuela, where the US would seem to be trying to engineer another regime change in support of their oil industry, here are my notes and my diigo bookmarks . I consider sanctions, human rights and democracy …
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On the ECHR and its conflict with UK law
Here’s some links about the ECHR and why its a marmite issue in British Politics.
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GDPR & the US Privacy Shield
I have just come back from a course on European Data Protection, the issue of standard clauses and Trans-Atlantic data flows was raised, I decided to blog on it, here are some links that I used.
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Privacy & Human Rights at the UN
In 2013, AFAIK, the United Nations General Assembly, passed the UN Human Rights Commission proposal, The right to privacy in the digital age, the results of this led to the establishment of a Special Rapporteur on Privacy reporting to the OHRC. The SRoP reports once/year to the Human Rights Committee and once each year to…
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Dictatorship and Plebiscites
For people casual acquainted with political theory, we know that dictators quite like plebiscites in a way that they dislike parliaments. We can see in the UK, the way in which some of the Brexiteers, but not their leadership, are frightened of both parliament’s consideration of interpreting the referendum result and/or running a second one.
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