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N.A. Moreham: Police investigations: privacy, confidence and public duties

The Court of Appeal has recently affirmed the proposition that a person can be liable under the misuse […]

UKCLA February 18, 2021 Civil Liberties, United Kingdom

Eliza Bechtold: The Republican Party’s Misappropriation of ‘Free Speech’ Undermines American Democracy

Following the insurrection at the US Capitol on 6 January, several Republican lawmakers accused the press and social […]

UKCLA February 8, 2021 America, Civil Liberties, Comparative law, Human rights, United Kingdom, United States

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

Eliza Bechtold: Has The United States’ Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic Exposed the Marketplace of Ideas as a Failed Experiment?

The fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic in the US has placed a spotlight not only on the fragility […]

UKCLA May 5, 2020 Civil Liberties, Human rights, United States

Emmanouil Bougiakiotis: E.S. v Austria: Blasphemy Laws and the Double Standards of the European Court of Human Rights

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This case concerns the criminal conviction of an Austrian national because of a number of comments she made […]

Constitutional Law Group November 22, 2018 Europe, Human rights

Yossi Nehushtan and Stella Coyle: Ashers Baking (Part 2): Do Homophobes and Racists have a Right Not to Manifest Liberal Messages?

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At the heart of the recent Supreme Court’s decision in Ashers Baking lies the ruling that nobody should […]

Constitutional Law Group November 6, 2018 Human rights, Judicial review, Northern Ireland

Yossi Nehushtan and Stella Coyle: Ashers Baking (Part 1): The Supreme Court’s Betrayal of Liberalism and Equality

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Much has already been written about the recent Supreme Court judgment in Ashers Baking, but the debate has […]

Constitutional Law Group November 5, 2018 Human rights, Judicial review, Northern Ireland

Robert Craig: The Peter Hain Case: The Effect of Article IX

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Peter Hain’s decision to breach an interim injunction granted by the Court of Appeal in the case of […]

Constitutional Law Group October 31, 2018 Judiciary, UK Parliament

Jelena Gligorijevic: Breaching Injunctions in Parliament: An Unconstitutional Abuse of Parliamentary Privilege

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Two days after the Court of Appeal granted an interim injunction restraining reportage of harassment allegations against a […]

Constitutional Law Group October 29, 2018 Judiciary, UK Parliament

Jacob Rowbottom: Cakes, Gay Marriage and the Right against Compelled Speech

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In the high-profile decision in Lee v Ashers, the Supreme Court had to consider a customer’s rights against […]

Constitutional Law Group October 16, 2018 Comparative law, Human rights, Judicial review, Northern Ireland

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