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The Weekly Round Up: Women Peace and Security failures, asylum accommodation overcrowding, and deportation to Afghanistan blocked by ECHR
12+ hour, 2+ min ago (597+ words) UK Human Rights Blog - 1 Crown Office Row 30 March 2026 by Sascha Lavin On Monday, the House of Commons International Development Committee (IDC) published a report which found that the Government had failed to deliver on its Women, Peace and Security (WPS) policy…...
The Article 2 Operational Duty and Regulatory Investigations
2+ mon, 1+ day ago (516+ words) UK Human Rights Blog - 1 Crown Office Row 29 January 2026 by Matthew Leitch In Suresh & Ors v General Medical Council [2025] EWHC 804 (KB), the High Court considered claims brought by the family of a doctor who died by suicide after receiving a letter…...
Substantially Different? R (Hippolyte) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2025] EWCA Civ 1493
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (542+ words) UK Human Rights Blog - 1 Crown Office Row 17 January 2026 by Matthew Leitch In R (Hippolyte) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2025] EWCA Civ 1493, the Court of Appeal considered s.31(2A) of the Senior Courts Act 1981 in the context of the Secretary…...
Court of Appeal Overturns Epping Asylum Hotel Injunction
7+ mon, 1+ day ago (557+ words) UK Human Rights Blog - 1 Crown Office Row 29 August 2025 by Jasper Gold In a recent post, we covered the High Court's headline-making decision in Epping Forest District Council v Somani Hotels Limited[2025] EWHC 2183 (KB) to grant an injunction preventing the Bell…...
Supreme Court upholds sanctions on Eugene Shvidler and Dalston Projects in test case for UK regime
7+ mon, 1+ week ago (969+ words) UK Human Rights Blog - 1 Crown Office Row 18 August 2025 by Guest Contributor Shvidler v Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs and Dalston Projects Ltd and others v Secretary of State for Transport [2025] UKSC 30 These appeals " Shvidler v Secretary…...