Freedom of Association in UK Law

  • R (Countryside Alliance and Others) v Attorney-General and Another
    • House of Lords
    • 28 November 2007
    ....... "1. Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and to freedom of association with others, including ......
  • Secretary of State for the Home Department v MB [House of Lords
    • House of Lords
    • 31 October 2007
    ......Among the listed obligations are: "(d) a restriction on his association or communications with specified persons or with other persons generally; ... between deprivation of liberty and restriction of movement and freedom of a person to choose his residence. The latter are the subject of article ......
  • Douglas v Hello! Ltd (No 1)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 21 December 2000
    ......It goes without saying that this is a case concerned with freedom of expression. Although the right to freedom of expression is not in every ... of expression, freedom of peaceful assembly and freedom of association. 4. Every person has a right to the safeguard of his ......
  • R (Laporte) v Chief Constable of Gloucestershire Constabulary
    • House of Lords
    • 13 December 2006
    ...... Freedom of expression and assembly . . 34 The ... the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and to freedom of association with others …. 2. No restrictions shall be placed on the ......
  • Council of Civil Service Unions v Minister for the Civil Service
    • House of Lords
    • 22 November 1984
    ...... but would be permitted to belong only to a departmental staff association approved by the director. The announcement came as a complete surprise to ......
  • Julian Assange v Swedish Prosecution Authority
    • Supreme Court
    • 31 May 2012
    ......: "The objective set for the Union to become an area of freedom, security and justice leads to abolishing extradition between Member ... its constitutional rules relating to due process, freedom of association, freedom of the press and freedom of expression in other media. ......
  • Hubbard v Pitt
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 13 May 1975
    ...... of the tenants' legal rights, approved by Islington Tenants' Association". . . 4 If the tenants have been subjected to undue pressure by ... person to any kind of constraint orrestriction of his personal freedom, see Hunt v. Broome (1974) 2 W.L.R. at page 63-H by Lord Reid . . ......
  • R (McCann) v Manchester Crown Court
    • House of Lords
    • 17 October 2002
    ...... 20 In a classic passage in Proprietary Articles Trade Association v Attorney General for Canada [1931] AC 310 , 324 Lord Atkin observed: ..., by rendering the injunctive process ineffectual, prejudice the freedom of liberal democracies to maintain the rule of law by the use of civil ......
  • R v Deputy Governor of Parkhurst Prison and Others, ex parte Hague ; Weldon v Home Office
    • House of Lords
    • 24 July 1991
    ......Rule 43 provides as follows: . . 6 " Removal from association . "(1) Where it appears desirable, for the ... the concept of the prisoner's "residual liberty" as a species of freedom of movement within the prison enjoyed as a legal right which the prison ......
  • Attorney General v Guardian Newspapers Ltd and Others (No. 2)
    • House of Lords
    • 13 October 1988
    ......He wrote the book in association with a man named Paul Greengrass, and it was accepted for publication by ... of public interest such as to countervail the public interest in freedom of expression. A communication about some aspect of government activity ......
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