Prisoners Rights in UK Law
- Prisoners' Voting Rights - An Update
- The May General Election will be Incompatible with Prisoners' Human Rights - What are the implications?
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Note stashed in Christmas card connected to alleged forced labor
Report on Supply Chain Compliance 3, no. 1 (January 9, 2020) - A young girl in the United Kingdom found a note allegedly written by prisoners in a Shanghai factory that produces charity Christma...... ... girl in the United Kingdom found a note allegedly written by prisoners in a Shanghai factory that produces charity Christmas cards. The note ... Forced to work against our will. Please help us and notify human rights organisation.” ... A former prisoner, Peter Humphrey, gave credence to ... ...
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Prisioners' Voting Rights - 6 Months Deadline
...The decision of the ECtHR is now final – The UK Government has 6 months to address the blanket ban on prisoners' votes ... The latest decision from the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on the issue of prisoners' voting rights is now final. The judgment ... ...
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Prison Rules: Unwarranted And Self-authorised Surveillance Of Prisoners' Legal Consultations
... ... in NOMS' exercise of intrusive surveillance powers and considers the reforms that could go some way to ensure that prisoners' fair trial rights are not fatally undermined ... Current framework: no checks, no balances ... The current legal framework governing the interception of a ... ...
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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,...... ... 2 North Korean entities involved in running prison camps and serious human rights violations against the prisoners ... The UK government has also issued accompanying guidance and an explanatory memorandum ... UK businesses will need to ensure compliance with the ... ...
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U.K. Announces "Magnitsky Act-style" Global Human Rights Sanctions And 49 Designations
... ... Two North Korean state security ... ministries linked to the commission of human rights violations ... against prisoners (i.e., murder, torture, enslavement, forced ... (b) The Nature of the Sanctions in Place and Criteria for ... Designation ... The GHR Regulation ... ...
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U.K. Announces “Magnitsky Act-style” Global Human Rights Sanctions and 49 Designations
- As of 1:00 p.m. BST July 6, 2020, the GHR Regulation came into force, representing the introduction of the U.K.’s long awaited GHR Regime. - The GHR Regime is the first standalone U.K. sancti...... ... Two North Korean state security ministries linked to the commission of human rights violations against prisoners (i.e., murder, torture, enslavement, forced labor) ... (b) The Nature of the Sanctions in Place and Criteria for Designation ... The GHR Regulation ... ...
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Planning & Human Rights - Time To Revisit?
... ... it has been applicable and relied upon is in relation to very personal or individual rights (for example the slopping out cases concerning prisoners) ... In some ways this "slow burn" is not surprising. A number of commentators considered that the impact of the Act would grow significantly once ... ...
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Brexit: What Does the Vote Mean for Business?
Today, it was announced that the UK public has voted to leave the European Union. There will now be a negotiation of a new relationship between the UK and Europe. The fact of the vote itself has no...... ... in the UK. The UK will lose some of its rights to participate in EU political processes during ... this period ... pressure to change its law with regard to voting rights for prisoners as a result of various ... decisions by the European Court of Human ... ...
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