By the end of the first year of LASPO the number of active law centres had gone down in seven years from 63 to 45. Continue reading “The Southwark Law Centre and Refugee Week”
Category: HUMAN RIGHTS
The travel ban litigation: Peculiar happenings in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
There is a very surprising feature of the travel ban litigation on the west coast of the United States that seems to have escaped the attention of the mainstream British media. Continue reading “The travel ban litigation: Peculiar happenings in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals”
President Trump and the courts: the judgment of the Court of Appeals
In view of the many appreciative messages I have received about my earlier attempts to explain what is going on in these proceedings, Continue reading “President Trump and the courts: the judgment of the Court of Appeals”
President Trump and the Courts: the composition of the judges’ panel
I have been asked how the panel of three judges of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals who will decide on the Government’s motion tonight has been selected. Continue reading “President Trump and the Courts: the composition of the judges’ panel”
President Trump and the Courts: the technology companies and the law professors
This is the fifth in a series of blogs in which I am trying to explain to British and other non-US readers something of the range of issues with which the court in San Francisco is now grappling. Continue reading “President Trump and the Courts: the technology companies and the law professors”
President Trump and the Courts: The Government’s Reply
This is my fourth blog about the case now proceeding before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. Continue reading “President Trump and the Courts: The Government’s Reply”
President Trump and the Courts: The rival submissions in the Court of Appeals
In view of the interest shown in my two earlier blogs about the legal proceedings on the west coast of America, I am bringing the history up to date. Continue reading “President Trump and the Courts: The rival submissions in the Court of Appeals”
President Trump and the Courts: Presidential Executive Orders & the Federal Courts
This is a picture of Judge Robart, the Federal Court judge in Washington who has been written off by the President of the United States as a “so-called judge” Continue reading “President Trump and the Courts: Presidential Executive Orders & the Federal Courts”
President Trump and the Courts: the proceedings in Seattle
Late last Friday afternoon (3rd February 2017) Judge Robart, a Federal District Judge in the State of Washington sitting in Seattle granted the States of Washington and Minnesota a temporary restraining order Continue reading “President Trump and the Courts: the proceedings in Seattle”
Another talk in Moscow: judicial protection of prisoners’ rights
I delivered this paper on my second visit to Moscow, when an entire seminar was given over to an exposition of the British approach to prisoners’ rights (four years before the Human Rights Act 1998 came into effect). Continue reading “Another talk in Moscow: judicial protection of prisoners’ rights”
Henry Brooke 