The Elections Bill 2021, as of the date of publication for the House of Commons Committee stage, advances […]
Prisoners’ Right to Vote
The issue of whether prisoners should have the right to vote (and, if so, which prisoners) has long […]
On 6 December 2018, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe closed the supervision of the […]
New Zealand’s Supreme Court has twice in the past two months turned its attention to the vexed issue […]
There is no reason to repeal the Human Rights Act and the government’s manifesto commitment to do so […]
The Hirst (No 2) v United Kingdom judgment has proven to be one of the most contentious of […]
Domestic courts in the United Kingdom have a power (and a duty) to disregard EU law when it […]
As is well known to readers of this blog, the issue of prisoner voting has been a long […]
This blog does not intend to rehearse the merits of the prisoners’ voting rights saga. In principle it […]
As is well known, in Hirst v UK (No 2) the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human […]