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Law and religion round-up – 11th December
Reforming the House of Lords? By far the biggest political news of the week was the Labour Party’s adoption of a series of proposals by Gordon Brown for constitutional reform. One set of proposals is...
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Law and religion round-up – 18th December
Unsurprisingly, a very quiet week… Smyth Review: update from independent reviewer The Church of England has announced that the independent reviewer of the Smyth affair, Keith Makin, has confirmed that...
View ArticleLaw and religion round-up – 8th January
And in a very thin week… Scotland, religious harassment and football again Last year, we noted the case of Mr P McCue v Civil Nuclear Police Authority [2022] UKET 2415411/2021, in which an Employment...
View ArticleLaw and religion round-up – 26th February
And in the week when we scoured the shops for sun-dried turnips (or should that be swedes?)… The Government’s commitment to the ECHR? On Tuesday morning during Oral Questions in the Commons, the...
View ArticleLaw and religion round-up – 2nd April
“All the news that’s fit to print” (some of it daft)… … and this week it’s been difficult to distinguish between real and spoof news, from both Church and State. However, of the various April Fool...
View ArticleLaw and religion round-up – 30th July
Which witch? Civil Society reports that the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland is looking into allegations raised about a recently registered religious charity that shared content about witches....
View ArticleLaw and religion round-up – 3rd September
Burials and burial law in Scotland On 25 August, the Scottish Government opened a series of consultations on aspects of burials and burial law: Statutory inspection of burial authorities, cremation...
View ArticleThe CJEU and the ECtHR: an updated idiot’s guide
Introduction At 23:00 GMT on 31 January 2020, the UK departed from the European Union. Following that departure, there was a transition period which ended at 23:00 GM on 31 December 2020. Nevertheless,...
View ArticleLaw and religion round-up – 1st October
“70 years of human rights trashed in 30 minutes”? John Crace, The Guardian The Home Secretary and the ECHR The Times reports that “Suella Braverman has been authorised by Downing Street to float the...
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Law and religion round-up – 8th October
The week in which Dame Sue Carr was sworn in as Lady Chief Justice of England & Wales… …and a week in which fact checkers have been working overtime to counter spurious claims on the impact of HS2...
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