by Agency Reporter | Jan 15, 2022 | Briefing
THREE CHRISTIANS, including an Anglican priest and a Catholic priest, who stopped a DLR train in protest at inaction on the climate emergency, were lawfully exercising their right to peaceful protest, a jury has found. On 14 January Rev Sue Parfitt, 79, Fr Martin...
by Agency Reporter | Jan 14, 2022 | Briefing
ARTICLE 39 and the Howard League for Penal Reform have welcomed the introduction of new secondary legislation which ends the curtailment of critical legal protections to people in prison in England, including children, which were imposed early on in the pandemic....
by Agency Reporter | Jan 14, 2022 | Briefing
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN’S administration has made slow progress on protecting human rights in the United States, Human Rights Watch says, in its World Report 2022. “The Biden administration has made some big-picture pronouncements on key issues like racial and...
by Staff Writer | Jan 13, 2022 | Briefing
PUBLIC POLLS SHOW over half of the British public support legalisation of cannabis for recreational use. Release, a national centre of expertise on drugs and drugs law, says the reality is that cannabis reform in the UK is inevitable. The question, says Release, is...
by Agency Reporter | Jan 13, 2022 | Briefing
CLIENTEARTH is taking the UK government to court over its inadequate net zero strategy, arguing that its failure to set out credible policies to tackle climate change is unlawful. The environmental law charity says the government has breached its legal obligations...
by Staff Writer | Jan 12, 2022 | Briefing
MICHAEL GOVE, the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, has announced a guarantee that no leaseholder living in their own flat will have to pay to fix unsafe cladding. Speaking on 10 January Mr. Gove said: “We will scrap proposals for loans and long-term debt for...
