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Category Archive: Civil Liberties

Richard Martin: Counting Cumulative Impact: More Public Order Law Additions

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Following the horrific antisemitic attack at a Manchester synagogue in October, the government has announced plans to amend […]

UKCLA October 22, 2025 Civil Liberties, Human rights

Ting Xu: The Legal Fiction of State Neutrality: Rethinking Accountability in Disability Home Adaptations

How should the state be held to account when it funds and organises essential services—but then denies responsibility […]

UKCLA July 9, 2025 Administrative law, Civil Liberties, Constitutional Law, Human rights, local government

Nour Haidar: Home Secretary vs Palestine Action: The Constitutional Implications of Widening the Legal Understanding of Terrorism

On 23 June 2025 the Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, announced in Parliament that she had “decided to proscribe […]

UKCLA July 8, 2025 Civil Liberties, Human rights, Judicial review

Penelope Cassandra Webb: Silences, Spectacle, and the Limitations of Law

The decision of the UK Supreme Court in For Women Scotland Ltd v Scottish Ministers [2025] is one […]

UKCLA June 5, 2025 Civil Liberties, Human rights, Public Litigation, Scotland, United Kingdom

Tim Sayer: The Passive Virtues and the Abuse of Delegated Legislation: Courts, the Political Constitution and the Public Order Act 1986 (Serious Disruption to the Life of the Community) Regulations 2023

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In 1961 Alexander Bickel argued that the US Supreme Court should adopt what he called the ‘passive virtues’ – minimising […]

UKCLA June 19, 2023 Civil Liberties, Judicial review, law-making

Eliza Bechtold: Recent Efforts to Regulate Expression by Conservatives in the UK and the US Highlight a Shift Toward Illiberalism

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Conservative politicians in the UK and the US are making headlines for regulatory efforts targeting core free speech […]

UKCLA June 1, 2023 Civil Liberties

Lewis Graham: The Reed Court by Numbers: How Shallow is the ‘Shallow End’?

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In a recent critical essay for the London Review of Books, Conor Gearty penned a wonderful, if provocative, […]

UKCLA April 4, 2022 Civil Liberties, Constitutional Law, Human rights, Human Rights Act 1998, Judiciary

Fiona de Londras, Daniella Lock and Pablo Grez Hidalgo: COVID passes and the ongoing abuse of ‘urgent’ law-making

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Later today  the House of Commons will consider the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Entry to Venues and events) (England) Regulations […]

UKCLA December 14, 2021 Civil Liberties

Guy Baldwin: Banning Public Worship during the Pandemic?

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As the coronavirus pandemic stretches into its second year, the tension between freedom of religion and public health […]

UKCLA April 12, 2021 Australia, Civil Liberties, Human rights, Judicial review, New Zealand, Scotland

Florence Powell and Stephanie Needleman: How radical an instrument is Section 3 of the Human Rights Act 1998?

The operation of the Human Rights Act 1998 (the “HRA”) is currently being reviewed by the Government’s Independent […]

UKCLA March 24, 2021 Civil Liberties, Human rights, Judicial review, Judiciary, United Kingdom

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