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A Chagossian double bill: an environmental information contest, and a touch...
The Chagos Refugees Group in Mauritius v. Foreign and Commonwealth Office, First Tier Tribunal, 4 September 2012, read judgment and Bancoult v. FCO, 25 July 2012, Stanley Burnton LJ, read judgment The...
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Chagossians: Wikileaks cables not admissible in court
Bancoult v. Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Divisional Court, Richards LJ and Mitting J, 16-24 April 2013, judgment awaited, but see 25 July 2012, Stanley Burnton LJ for an earlier judgment...
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The Chagossian Wikileaks cable judgment, fishing rights and a dose of EU law
Bancoult v. Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Divisional Court, Richards LJ and Mitting J, 11 June 2013 read judgment The Divisional Court has now dismissed the claim by Mr Bancoult on behalf of the...
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Chagossians update
A lot is happening in various challenges related to the long-running and shameful exclusion of the Chagossian people from their islands in the Indian Ocean. Here are the headlines, with a reminder of...
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Cracking intercepts: the war on terror and difficulties with Human Rights
Liberty v Government Communications Headquarters ( IPT/13/77/H); Privacy International v FCO and others (IPT/13/92/CH); American Civil Liberties Union v Government Communications Headquarters...
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Julian Assange: from the UK Supreme Court to The Simpsons
The Julian Assange circus rolls back into London today for the UK Supreme Court’s 2-day hearing of his appeal against extradition. It will be broadcast on Supreme Court live from 10:30am. The Wikileaks...
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UK Supreme Court is tweeting, but where are the other courts?
The UK Supreme Court began tweeting yesterday as @UKSupremeCourt to deserved international fanfare. Some even speculated that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s extradition fate could now be revealed...
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Chagossians: Wikileaked cable admissible after all
Bancoult v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs [2014] EWCA Civ 708 – read judgment Rosalind English (here) has summarised this unsuccessful appeal against the rejection of the...
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Landmark ruling for inquests and Chelsea Manning released from prison: The...
Conor Monighan brings us the latest updates in human rights law Credit: The Guardian In the News: Chelsea Manning, the ex-US intelligence analyst, was released from prison last week. Manning was found...
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Julian Assange must face rape charges in Sweden, rules court
The judicial authority in Sweden -v- Julian Paul Assange – Read judgment Julian Assange, the founder of the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks, must face charges of sexual assault and rape in Sweden,...
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Julian Assange loses High Court appeal against extradition
Julian Assange -v- Swedish Prosecution Authority – Read judgment / summary Julian Assange, founder of the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks, has lost his High Court appeal against extradition to...
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Assange, secret trials and data retention – The Human Rights Roundup
Welcome back to the UK Human Rights Roundup, your weekly buffet of human rights news. The full list of links can be found here. You can also find our table of human rights cases here and previous...
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Assange kills off Pupino, but ambiguity remains – Alex Tinsley
In last week’s judgment in Assange v The Swedish Prosecution Authority [2012] UKSC 22, the Supreme Court decided that the words ‘judicial authority’ in s 2(2) of the Extradition Act 2003 include...
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The Assange Reality Distortion Field
It was once said of Apple’s Steve Jobs that he could convince himself and others to believe almost anything with a mix of charm, charisma, bravado, hyperbole, marketing, and persistence. Following...
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The Weekly Round-Up: Lockdown Again (Again)
In the News: So: here we are again. Rampant spread, fuelled by a combination of a new variant that is around 50-70% more transmissible, plus a lifting of restrictions at the beginning of December,...
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