The EU and the death penalty
At the time when the Lisbon treaty was undergoing ratification, there was a rather odd eurosceptic complaint in Germany that the Lisbon treaty, by giving legal force to the Charter …
At the time when the Lisbon treaty was undergoing ratification, there was a rather odd eurosceptic complaint in Germany that the Lisbon treaty, by giving legal force to the Charter …
European Conference marking Statewatch’s 20th anniversary 25 June 2011 (10.00-17.30) Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL Programme and Registration form: http://www.statewatch.org/conference/conference.pdf Book Online: http://www.statewatch.org/ordering/order.html Institutions £30: (Institutions wanting …
Statewatching Europe – civil liberties, the state and the European Union (25 June 2011) Read More »
There will be a debate in the House of Commons later this week on whether people sentenced to prison should have the right to vote. The issue comes up because …
A review of “The Council of Europe and Human Rights” by Martyn Bond (Council of Europe Publishing, 2010) In 1988 a British army special forces unit acting on information from …
The claim about the “totally alien form of justice” is just plain wrong … the erroneous belief that European forms of justice are somehow at fundamental variance with British traditions …
Here is another example of the interaction between criminal justice and national sovereignty. Samantha Orobator was convicted in Laos of possession of heroin and was sentenced to life imprisonment, commuted …
The ongoing difficulty the British political establishment is having with allegations of torture reveals some important truths about the world. In essence, the situation seems to be that, while British …
A debate in the House of Commons last week revisited the issue of the extradition treaty with the United States, which is the cause of controversy every time a difficult …
I am not going to discuss here the rights and wrongs of the deletion of evidence from the judgment in the case of Binyam Mohamed – the foreign secretary insisted …
Amid European rejoicing about the restoration of multilateralism to the White House in the recent American presidential election, an interesting corrective is published in the Wall Street Journal. Law professors …