#ECtHR

Başak Çalı

calibasak

I am very pleased to read that the #ECtHR GC judgment rectified some major errors and omissions of the Chamber judgment in the case Demirtaş v Turkey (No 2) (1)

Conor O'Mahony

ConorUCCLaw

For the ECHR nerds among you: today's ECtHR judgments on symphysiotomy completely ignored what I felt was one of our strongest arguments in the case, which relied on Soderman v

Daniel Sohege

stand_for_all

THREAD: Changes to the immigration rules published today seem likely to put the UK on a course to violate some fairly key parts of basic international refugee law. Just a

Graeme Cowie

woodstockjag

Both the Advocate General for Scotland and the Attorney General have argued in recent days, that section 19 of the Human Rights Act 1998 provides a precedent for the UK

Máiréad Enright

maireadenright

Reading the ECHR symphysiotomy judgments in detail now. They are hardly a vindication of govt policy. Two points caught my eye: 1) The court largely adopts the state's line

Conor O'Mahony

ConorUCCLaw

My thoughts on today's ECtHR rulings in the #symphysiotomy cases: the Court took a narrow, formalistic approach, that allowed technical and procedural considerations to obscure egregious rights violations, and expected

Shoaib M Khan

ShoaibMKhan

This is so sad.Lord Kerr was UK’s longest-serving supreme court justice & ad hoc ECtHR judge.He was a real friend of human rights. Always speaking out for rule of law

Camino Mortera

CaminoMortera

All right, folks, I'm doing a back-of-the-envelope analysis on what's been published on the Brexit police and judicial co-operation deal and then will go and wrap some presents (will pop

Stuart Wallace

echrhawk

The UK government has declined to hold a public inquiry into the death of Pat Finucane. Here is a brief thread on why that is significant. Background - Pat Finucane

Paul Johnson

echrso

Very important trans rights case in ECtHR today. The case concerns the situation of two trans people who were refused recognition of their gender identities because they had not undergone

Sports Law, Prof Jack Anderson

sportslawMELB

#sportslaw Caster Semenya loses at Swiss supreme court. (Very) basic "initial reaction" thread here, confined to human rights law issues. I leave further (more accurate and contextual) analysis on the

Asteroid

AlessandraAster

The last five years have seen an aggressive campaign to get rid of sex-segregated spaces and services, through the introduction of gender neutral spaces, or opening up female spaces to

Vincent Wong

InitialVW

In light of the sentencing of the Demosisto Three, I thought I would live-tweet a very urgent discussion: @usasiainstitute's event on Hong Kong's criminal justice system post-National Security Law with

CiLuna

CiLuna27

In previous years I tweeted about prisoners of conscience while I was travelling home. This year I sadly cannot go home and see my family. Nevertheless I plan to tweet

melissa nolas

smnolas

Today my thoughts are with #AlexisGrigoropoulos and his mother and father and all mothers & fathers who have lost a child to police violence 1/https://twitter.com/maria_louka/status/1335167460299972608?s=21 #AlexisGrigoropoulos was a 15

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