The European Court of Human Rights today clarified a long standing debate between the UK Supreme Court and Strasbourg on when hearsay evidence should be admitted. In the case of Horncastle the UKSC had declined to follow the Strasbourg Court’s requirement that in order to rely on hearsay it could not be the sole and […]
Winners of the JUSTICE Human Rights Awards 2010
December 10, 2011
Carloway reports: Safeguards enhanced at the police station but removed at trial
November 17, 2011
Freedom from Suspicion
November 4, 2011
Surveillance Reform for a Digital Age In this new major report, supported by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, JUSTICE calls for a fundamental overhaul of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act in order to protect the right of individual privacy from unnecessary, unwarranted and unchecked state intrusion. Press Release, Suveillance Reform for a Digital Age […]
European Directive on Access to a Lawyer
September 30, 2011
JUSTICE, along with Amnesty International, ECBA, OSJI, Irish Council for Civil Liberties and FTI, has written an open letter to Justice Ministers across Europe emphasising the importance of enacting the Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the rights of access to a lawyer and of notification of custody to a third person […]
Baha Mousa’s death ‘a stain on our values’
September 8, 2011
Doubt over UK support for right of access to a lawyer EU directive
September 6, 2011
UK Supreme Court rules against secret evidence in civil claims
July 13, 2011
The UK Supreme Court today ruled decisively against the use of secret evidence in civil trials without parliamentary authorisation. JUSTICE was granted leave to intervene before the UK Supreme Court in both Deghayes and Tariq in a joint intervention with Liberty. JUSTICE has published a press release in response to the judgment. Press Release, Secret […]
Landmark human rights rulings extend scope of the Human Rights Act outside the UK
July 7, 2011
In two groundbreaking rulings, the European Court of Human Rights today confirmed that the UK government’s human rights obligations are not limited to the territorial UK but can exceptionally extend overseas to situations in which British officials exercise ‘control and authority’ over foreign nationals. JUSTICE has published a press release in response to the judgment. […]