The Issues Considered These proceedings concerned whether section 67(8) of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (“RIPA”) had the effect of “ousting” the supervisory jurisdiction of the High Court over decisions of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (“IPT”). The IPT is a specialist statutory tribunal of limited jurisdiction created to determine complaints surrounding the exercise […]

This year’s Annual General Meeting will take place at 5.30pm on Tuesday 24 October 2017 at Shearman & Sterling LLP, 9 Appold St, London EC2A 2AP. As a member of JUSTICE, this is where you get to have your say on the priorities of the organisation and meet with like-minded individuals who also support our […]

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FACTS The two joined appeals concern alleged UK involvement in breaches of human rights by foreign governments. Mr Belhaj was an opposition commander during the 2011 Libyan armed conflict and is now leader of the Libyan Al-Watan Party. In 2004, Mr Belhaj and his pregnant wife Mrs Boudchar attempted to fly from Beijing to London […]

FACTS The appellants in this Supreme Court appeal are collectively known as No to Named Persons (NO2NP) and consist of three individual parents and four registered charities with interests in family matters. They challenge Part 4 of the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 (“the 2014 Act”) and its introduction of the compulsory Named […]

FACTS Kevin Kinyanjui Kiarie (born in Kenya) and Courtney Aloysius Byndloss (Jamaican) were liable to deportation being foreign nationals sentenced to periods of imprisonment of two and three years respectively. They made representations to the Home Office against their deportation based on their right to private and family life (Article 8 of the European Convention […]

Privacy, private life and the press (Articles 8, 10 ECHR) FACTS PJS is married to YMA and both are well-known public figures. During their marriage, PJS had a sexual relationship with AB and, on one occasion, AB and CD. In January 2016, the Sun on Sunday newspaper notified PJS that it proposed to publish AB’s […]

Article 8 ECHR, the protection of privacy in medical records and access to legal aid to fight disclosure. KNOWLEDGE BANK – SCOTS LAW TERMINOLOGY Haver – a body or person holding documents. Commission and diligence – the procedure by which the Court tells a haver to provide to the parties the documents held. Petition – […]

FACTS Ameen Jogee appealed against his conviction for murder. Mr Jogee had taken a man named Mohammed Hirsi to an associate’s home, where both men behaved aggressively and Mr Hirsi stabbed a man. The man died of his wounds and Mr Hirsi was convicted of murder. Prior to the stabbing Mr Jogee had come beside […]