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Mormon Tax, Posthumous Procreation and Stephen Lawrence Spying – the Human Rights Roundup
Originally posted on UK Human Rights Blog:
Welcome back to the UK Human Rights Roundup, your regular spring harvest of human rights news and views. The full list of links can be found here. You can find previous roundups here. …
Evidence to Parliament on Criminal Justice and Courts Bill
Originally posted on UK Human Rights Blog:
I will be giving evidence tomorrow at around 3pm to the Public Bill Committee scrutinising the Criminal Justice and Courts Bill. I will be giving evidence along with Nicola Mackintosh, Nick Armstrong and…
Police have “Osman” duty to investigate in date rape cases
Originally posted on UK Human Rights Blog:
DSD and NVB v The Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis [2014] EWHC 436 (QB) – read judgment The police have a duty to conduct investigations into particularly severe violent acts perpetrated by private…
Strasbourg on Mormons and their temples
Originally posted on UK Human Rights Blog:
THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS v. THE UNITED KINGDOM, ECtHR, 4 March 2014 – read judgment An apparently dry dispute about business rates on one of the Mormons’ temples in Preston…
Home Office/Security Industry Authority: ‘Revised timetable for business licensing’
Originally posted on TheSecurityLion:
On Thursday 27 February, at a meeting of the Security Industry Authority’s (SIA) Strategic Consultative Group, Home Office officials updated representatives of the private security industry on the timetable for introducing business licensing. The group was…
Cap on housing benefit is lawful, says Court of Appeal
Originally posted on UK Human Rights Blog:
SG and others, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, 21 February 2014 [2014] EWCA Civ 156 – read judgment The Court of Appeal has rejected on all…
Top police chief is a landlady on Benefits Street
Yvonne Mosquito, the West Midlands Deputy Police and Crime Commissioner, owns a property on TV’s ‘Benefits Street’ A top police chief owns a house in Birmingham’s controversial Benefits Street, the Mail can reveal. Yvonne Mosquito, the West Midlands Deputy Police … Continue reading
