Death Penalty in UK Law
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New Blog to Check Out: Artists vs. Death Penalty
There’s a new blog to check out for those who are interested in the death penalty, published by Athina Ouranidou. It’s entitled “Artists vs. Death Penalty.” Athina is in her final year as a law s...
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Commutation vs. Resentencing Hearings in Death Penalty Cases
As President Biden takes office, activists against the federal death penalty are hopeful that he will commute the death sentences of those who sit on the Federal Death Row. See, e.g., “Dems Squad ...
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Alamo Pictures: UK Professor Vivien Miller Discusses Death Penalty in America
Mannie Ponoc of UK’s Alamo Pictures shared this recent documentary podcast with us where Professor Vivien Miller of the University of Nottingham discusses the history of capital punishment in Ameri...
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Recommended Video: Ted Talk on U.S.Death Penalty
Recommended Video: a February 2016 TED Talk given by Nick McKeown, a Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. As a college student in the United Kingdom, Mc...
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A powerful lesson in UK Data Protection law restrictions
The protections afforded by the GDPR and the UK’s 2019 Data Protection Act (‘DPA’) are not naturally associated with efforts to frustrate and restrict the use of the death penalty internationally. ...... ... associated with efforts to frustrate and restrict the use of the death penalty internationally. However, the recent Supreme Court judgment, ... ...
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International Data Transfers: The First Data Protection Case To Reach The Supreme Court
... ... no death penalty be sought. But this was not acceptable to the ... Trump ... ...
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A Powerful Lesson In UK Data Protection Law Restrictions
... ... efforts to frustrate and restrict the use of the death penalty ... internationally. However, the recent Supreme Court judgment, ... ...
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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...... ... of facilitating the investigation which may result in the death penalty (especially given the Home Secretary did not obtain an assurance ... ...
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UK Held to Have Breached Data Protection Laws Over Alleged Islamic State Members
In an interesting data protection case, Elgizouli (Appellant) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (Respondent) [2020] UKSC 10, the UK Supreme Court has held that the UK Government breached...... ... legal assistance (MLA) request that could involve the US seeking the death penalty for two men. The men are alleged to have been members of a ... ...
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Overseas Production Orders – Where are we now?
In March 2019 Dechert reported that the Crime (Overseas Production Orders) Act 2019 (the “COPO Act”) had granted UK authorities new extra-territorial powers.... ... for detention) at Guantanamo Bay16 or in proceedings in which the death penalty is being contemplated.17 The recent UK Supreme Court decision in ... ...
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