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  • Freedom of Expression and Protection from Defamation: Striking the Right Balance

    22 December 2009

    Grant v Torstar Corp, 2009 SCC 61 (22 December 2009) This Canadian Supreme Court decision draws on the freedom of expression guarantee in the Canadian Charter to establish a new...

  • Fox Hunting and the Right to Private Life

    17 December 2009

    Friend and Countryside Alliance v United Kingdom [2009] ECHR 2068 (17 December 2009) In this case, the European Court of Human Rights unanimously held that a ban on fox hunting...

  • Balancing the Right to Religious Observance with the Right to Non-Discrimination

    15 December 2009

    Ladele v London Borough of Islington [2009] EWCA Civ 1357 (15 December 2009) The England and Wales Court of Appeal has confirmed that a local council can compel its employee...

  • The Right to Free Expression and the Protection of Journalistic Sources: When Can a Journalist be Compelled to Reveal their Source?

    15 December 2009

    Financial Times Ltd & Ors v United Kingdom [2009] ECHR 2065 (15 December 2009) This decision explores the right to freedom of expression as it applies to the protection of...

  • Freedom from Discrimination against Same-Sex Couples in Provision of Housing

    14 December 2009

    Rodriguez v Minister of Housing & Anor (Gibraltar) [2009] UKPC 52 (14 December 2009) The Privy Council has held that a Gibraltar Housing Allocation Committee policy to effectively grant government...

  • Homelessness and the Right to Life, Liberty and Security

    9 December 2009

    Victoria (City) v Adams, 2009 BCCA 563 (9 December 2009) The British Columbia Court of Appeal has held that a city bylaw which prohibited homeless people from erecting any form...

  • UK Supreme Court Considers whether the Right to a Fair Hearing Requires the Availability and Examination of Witnesses

    9 December 2009

    R v Horncastle & Ors [2009] UKSC 14 (9 December 2009) The new UK Supreme Court (replacing the House of Lords) has delivered an important judgment concerning the role of...

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Failed media reforms show new Parliamentary human rights scrutiny is working

The Australian Human Rights Commission’s Professor Gillian Triggs takes heart from signs that the new Joint Committee on Human Rights has consolidated its scrutiny function

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Case notes

The Queen on the Application of HC (a child, by his litigation friend CC) v The Secretary of State for the Home Department and Others [2013] EWHC 982 (Admin) (25 April 2013)

The UK High Court of Justice has held that to treat 17 year olds as adults offends the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which informs the UK’s obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights and the Human Rights Act 1998 (UK).

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Human rights developments

Optional Protocol to ICESCR enters into force
High Court rules “social security fraud” laws cannot apply retrospectively
Victorian bill to abolish suspended sentences

If I were Attorney-General...

University of the Sunshine Coast’s Professor Neil Rees, co-author of Australian Anti-Discrimination Law, looks at what might have been had the Government’s anti-discrimination reforms been referred Australian Law Reform Commission

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