Right to Life in UK Law
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UK Supreme Court Advances the Law on the Right to Terminate One’s Life
The right to terminate one’s life is a difficult and emotional subject. End of life concerns are important – they almost inevitably run through the mind of persons who are terribly disabled or dea...
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UK HR Two Minute Monthly: post-termination restrictions; discrimination and victimisation claims; right to respect for private life
Our January update considers recent developments in employment law, including cases on post-termination restrictions, interim relief for discrimination and victimisation claims, and the right to re...
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UK Imposes First Global Human Rights Sanctions
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,......... the right to life;. the right not to be subjected to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment; and. the right to be free from slavery, not to ......
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Activists Turn To Law Over Climate Crisis
...... breaches of articles 2 and 8 of the European Convention of Human rights. Article 2 protects a person's right to life. Article 8 protects their ......
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UK Home Secretary’s Decision to Transfer Data to U.S. found Unlawful under UK Data Protection Act
The UK Supreme Court held, in the case of Elgizouli v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2020] UKSC 10, that the Home Secretary breached the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA), the UK data pro........., the Court noted that the DPA states that regard must be had to the rights protected by the European Convention on Human Rights – and the al right enshrined therein of the right to life. This right overrides the public interest. The Court held that regard was ......
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Closing Care Homes - A Breach of the Human Rights Act?
...... In that case, it was particularly pertinent that the residents had received a promise that the home would be their "home for life". . Other challenges have been less successful. In ex parte Core3 the residents of a community unit challenged the decision of the NHS Trust to ......
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Inquests - A Change In Approach?
......The Middleton case arose because of Article 2 of the Human Rights Act. Article 2 provides for a right to life. European Jurisprudence makes ......
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Inquests
...... the requirements of verdicts in inquests in the light of the Human Rights Act 1998, (HRA) in the case of R (on the application of Middleton) v West Somerset Coroner [2004]. Article 2 of the HRA protects the right to life and imposes on the state substantive obligations to establish a framework ......
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Inquests
...... of the state and Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights (the right to life)may have been breached. This would exclude ......
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Supreme Court Restates When Police Forces Are Liable In Negligence
...... claimed in negligence as well as under Article 2 of the Human Rights Act 1998 (right to life). The Court of Appeal had held that the ......
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