By Kian Leong Tan INTRODUCTION Do advocates retain an absolute immunity for things and said and done in court, or must the ...

Baboons in trouble - again. The inadequacy of animal protection laws when it comes to wild animals who create a nuisance to farmers ...

Readers of this blog as well as listeners to Law Pod UK may remember the European Court of Human Rights’ controversial ruling ...

The problem of ritual slaughter: 70% of meat sold in UK supermarkets is religiously slaughtered. This is inhumane and breaks ...

In the news A private member’s bill to enshrine the rights of nature was introduced in the House of Lords on October 23, 2025 ...

A private member’s bill to enshrine the rights of nature was introduced in the House of Lords on October 23, 2025. The bill is supported by former Green Party Leader Baroness Natalie Bennett, and ...

I recently came across this judgement by the South African Constitutional Court. As a “Saffa” myself, I rejoice in the case’s title, pairing the name of the penultimate prime minister of the old ...

The Home Secretary has lost her appeal against the decision to grant one of the founders of Palestine Action permission for judicial review of the group’s proscription under the Terrorism Act. In R ...

In the news The International Federation for Human Rights (Féderation Internationale pour les droits humains, FIDH) has ...

Update (10 October 2025): Kemi Badenoch has confirmed that Conservative Party policy will be to withdraw the UK from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and to repeal the Human Rights Act ...

It will come to the surprise of many that the common law offence of blasphemy in the UK was only abolished in 2008. It has no place in a secular society such as ours. However attempts have been made ...

The number of hate crimes committed in England and Wales has risen since the previous year, according to statistics released by the Home Office. In the year ending March 2025, 115,990 hate crimes were ...