Court of Protection rules that it is in patient's best interests to be kept alive in a permanent vegetative state ...

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Searson and Another v Chief Constable of Nottingham Constabulary [2025] EWHC 1982 (KB) By Kian Leong Tan In Searson v Chief ...

David Wolfson KC, Lord Wolfson of Tredegar, Shadow Attorney General, and Michael Ellis KC, Attorney General from 2021 – 2022, have written to Labour’s Attorney General Richard Hermer KC regarding the ...

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Human Rights reports on Gaza, courts to hear challenges from Palestine Action co-founder and Good Law Project in November ...

In ALR and others v Chancellor of the Exchequer [2025] EWHC 1467 (Admin), the High Court has dismissed a challenge against the government’s manifesto policy of adding VAT to private school fees. The ...

Cheshire West rides again: no power for a local authority with parental responsibility to consent to detention 20 May 2025 by Anogika Souresh J v Bath and North East Somerset Council & M [2025] EWCA ...

N3 & ZA v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2025] UKSC 6 concerned orders depriving two British people of their citizenship on national security grounds. The Defendant (initially) contended ...

Ten years on from Cheshire West [2014] UKSC 19 (covered on this blog at the time), the seminal decision on deprivation of liberty by the Supreme Court, the Family Court faces an ever-increasing number ...

No, legislating to allow euthanasia would not breach the European Convention on Human Rights 7 November 2024 by anuragdeb Anurag Deb and Lewis Graham Introduction There are many well-tuned arguments ...