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Category Archive: Civil Liberties

Christopher McCrudden: Why the European Union must insist that the UK remains committed to the European Convention on Human Rights

In the next few days and weeks, the EU and the UK must decide whether they both really […]

UKCLA October 7, 2020 Civil Liberties, Europe, European Union, Human rights, Ireland, United Kingdom

Keith Ewing, Joan Mahoney and Andrew Moretta: Cold War Redux: MI5, Russian Subversion and the Tory Government

On 21 July 2020, Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee published its long delayed report on ‘the Russian threat […]

UKCLA September 8, 2020 Civil Liberties, Human rights, UK government, UK Parliament, United Kingdom

Philip Lau: Hong Kong’s New National Security Legislation: The Devil in the Details

The Chinese Government has recently enacted a piece of National Security Law (‘the Law’) on Hong Kong, establishing […]

UKCLA July 31, 2020 Civil Liberties, Comparative law, Hong Kong, Judiciary

Daniella Lock: The Third Direction Case Part Two: The Doctrine of Necessary Implication and Uncertainty in National Security Law

Part One of this post presented the background to the ‘Third Direction’ case, which concerns a recently disclosed […]

UKCLA July 24, 2020 Administrative law, Civil Liberties, Comparative law, Human rights, Judicial review, United Kingdom

Hanna Wilberg: Lockdowns, the principle of legality, and reasonable limits on liberty.

In responding to the Covid-19 pandemic, governments around the world have imposed unprecedented “lockdowns”.  They decided, on the […]

UKCLA July 23, 2020 Civil Liberties, Comparative law, Human rights, Judicial review, New Zealand, United Kingdom

Daniella Lock: The ‘Third Direction case’ Part One: Miller (Nos 1 and 2) in the National Security Context?

The ‘Third Direction case’, soon to be brought before the Court of Appeal, concerns the lawfulness of a […]

UKCLA July 7, 2020 Administrative law, Civil Liberties, Human rights, Judicial review, United Kingdom

Simon Halliday, Jed Meers, and Joe Tomlinson: Public Attitudes on Compliance with COVID-19 Lockdown Restrictions (Part 2)

In March 2020, the government introduced a set of restrictions to ‘lockdown’ the UK in response to the […]

UKCLA June 25, 2020 Administrative law, Civil Liberties, Devolution, Human rights, United Kingdom

Alex Schymyck: Why the proposed changes to asylum legal aid fees are unlawful

This blog analyses the legality of the Civil Legal Aid (Remuneration) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020, which came into […]

UKCLA June 23, 2020 Administrative law, Civil Liberties, Judicial review, United Kingdom

Christopher McCrudden: Democracy, protests, and Covid-19: the challenge of (and for) human rights

Two excellent databases enable us to track the effect of Covid-19 on political protests and demonstrations. Both the […]

UKCLA June 19, 2020 Civil Liberties, Comparative law, Human rights, United Kingdom, United States

Ronan Cormacain: Can I go to the park please Dad? Everyday lessons in legal certainty in the English Coronavirus Regulations

This post analyses the changes made on 13 May 2020 to the coronavirus social distancing regulations for England.  […]

UKCLA May 15, 2020 Administrative law, Civil Liberties, England, UK government, UK Parliament

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