Human Rights in UK Law

Leading Cases
  • R v Secretary of State for the Home Department, ex parte Simms
    • House of Lords
    • 08 July 1999

    Fundamental rights cannot be overridden by general or ambiguous words. This is because there is too great a risk that the full implications of their unqualified meaning may have passed unnoticed in the democratic process. In the absence of express language or necessary implication to the contrary, the courts therefore presume that even the most general words were intended to be subject to the basic rights of the individual.

  • R (Daly) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
    • House of Lords
    • 23 May 2001

    First, the doctrine of proportionality may require the reviewing court to assess the balance which the decision maker has struck, not merely whether it is within the range of rational or reasonable decisions. Secondly, the proportionality test may go further than the traditional grounds of review inasmuch as it may require attention to be directed to the relative weight accorded to interests and considerations.

  • R v DPP ex parte Kebeline
    • House of Lords
    • 28 October 1999

    In this area difficult choices may have to be made by the executive or the legislature between the rights of the individual and the needs of society. In some circumstances it will be appropriate for the courts to recognise that there is an area of judgment within which the judiciary will defer, on democratic grounds, to the considered opinion of the elected body or person whose act or decision is said to be incompatible with the Convention.

  • R v Secretary of State for the Home Department, ex parte Brind
    • House of Lords
    • 07 February 1991

    But where Parliament has conferred on the executive an administrative discretion without indicating the precise limits within which it must be exercised, to presume that it must be exercised within Convention limits would be to go far beyond the resolution of an ambiguity.

  • R (Alconbury Developments Ltd) v Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions
    • House of Lords
    • 09 May 2001

    In the absence of some special circumstances it seems to me that the court should follow any clear and constant jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights. If it does not do so there is at least a possibility that the case will go to that court which is likely in the ordinary case to follow its own constant jurisprudence.

  • Huang v Secretary of State for the Home Department; Abu-Qulbain v Same; Kashmiri v Same
    • House of Lords
    • 21 March 2007

    Their family, or extended family, is the group on which many people most heavily depend, socially, emotionally and often financially. There comes a point at which, for some, prolonged and unavoidable separation from this group seriously inhibits their ability to live full and fulfilling lives.

    In an article 8 case where this question is reached, the ultimate question for the appellate immigration authority is whether the refusal of leave to enter or remain, in circumstances where the life of the family cannot reasonably be expected to be enjoyed elsewhere, taking full account of all considerations weighing in favour of the refusal, prejudices the family life of the applicant in a manner sufficiently serious to amount to a breach of the fundamental right protected by article 8.

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Books & Journal Articles
  • Republican Human Rights?
    • No. 9-1, January 2010
    • European Journal of Political Theory
    • 0000
    The very idea of republican human rights, seems paradoxical. My aim in this article is to explore this disjunctive conjunction. One of the distinctive features of republican discourse, both in its ...
  • Human rights overreach?
    • No. 40-2, June 2022
    • Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights
    • 0000
    Current and future challenges are in need of an effective human rights response. In ensuring this, the question can be asked whether there is such a thing as human rights overreach, and if so, what...
  • Column: Human Rights Dialogues
    • No. 21-1, March 2003
    • Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights
    • 0000
  • Mandatory human rights reporting
    • Chapter 6: Accountability and remedy
    • Business and Human Rights
    • 284-298
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Law Firm Commentaries
  • Human Rights and Global Supply Chains
    • JD Supra United Kingdom
    Fashion retailers need to be vigilant to prevent human rights abuses in their supply chains whilst complying with their legal obligations. The UK’s Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Right...
  • Retroactive Corporate Liability for Human Rights Abuses
    • JD Supra United Kingdom
    New UK asset forfeiture law empowers prosecutors to seize assets held by companies that have unknowingly benefited from, or assisted, gross human rights abuses—even in the past. The new law crea...
  • UK Imposes First Global Human Rights Sanctions
    • JD Supra United Kingdom
    As we’ve discussed previously, in 2018, the UK enacted the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act (the Act), allowing it to impose its own post-Brexit autonomous sanctions regime. On July 6, 2020,...
  • International Business and Human Rights Arbitration Proposal Gains Momentum
    • JD Supra United Kingdom
    Between November 27-29, over 2,000 delegates gathered in Geneva to attend the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights. The central theme of this year’s Forum was “Realizing Access to Effective Remedy...
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Forms
  • Claim form (Under Section 11)
    • HM Courts & Tribunals Service court and tribunal forms
    Forms relating to matters raised in the Administrative Court, including challenges to decisions made by organisations such as local authorities and regulators.
    ... ... Solicitor’s costs ... Total amount ... Section 6 – Human Rights Act 1998 ... A Does, or will, your claim include any ... issues ... ...
  • Contest a will
    • HM Courts & Tribunals Service court and tribunal forms
    Chancery forms, including claim forms and applications for orders.
    ... ... Does, or will, your claim include any issues under the Human Rights Act 1998? ... Particulars of Claim (attached)(to follow) ... ...
  • Application for injunction (General form)
    • HM Courts & Tribunals Service court and tribunal forms
    County Court forms including the N1 money claim form.
    ... ... This application raises issues under ... the Human Rights Act 1998 ... The Claimant ... applies to the court for an ... ...
  • Application for injunction (General form)
    • HM Courts & Tribunals Service court and tribunal forms
    Forms relating to adoption, including those to request adoption, placement and parental orders.
    ... ... Does this application raise issues under the Human Rights Act 1998? ... The applicant(1) ... applies to the court for an ... ...
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