Right to Life in UK Law

This article starts from the premise that, through the Belfast Agreement, the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) was invested with a ‘transitional justice’ function in Northern Ireland, unlike in the rest...

This analysis considers the judgement of the European Court of Human Rights in Bubbins v United Kingdom.1 In this case the Court examined the shooting by the police of an unarmed individual. The Co...

Twenty‐five years ago it was common practice to bring about the deaths of some children with learning disabilities or physical impairments. This paper considers a small number of landmark cases in ...

Purpose: – The purpose of this paper is to understand how the “right to request” flexible working arrangements (FWAs), located in national policy and in organisational policy contexts, are brought ...

What is the relationship between the right to life and criminal liability, and what should it be, given the significance we rightly attribute both to human life and to human freedom? This article e...

Book reviewed in this article: GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF CRIMINAL LAW. By JEROME HALL. Second edition by the author. CRIMINAL LAW: THE GENERAL PART. Second edition. By GLANVILLE WILLIAMS. THE LAW OF AG...

English law gives the competent patient a right to refuse life‐saving treatment, either contemporaneously or in an advance directive. This means that the patient's autonomous choice that in an anti...