Former Supreme Court president Lady Hale on calls for the UK to quit the ECHR:
‘They are bothered about deportation of foreign national criminals. This is not a problem…The convention does not stop you doing that.’
🔗 www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/hale-la... via @lawsocietygazette.bsky.social
Today Shabana Mahmood is set to announce a series of hardline reforms to the UK asylum system
✍️ @cbarnard.bsky.social, @fionacostello.bsky.social & Ali Ahmadi have written a series of blogs unpacking what some of these changes will mean in practice
🔗 Links below
Steve Weatherill and I consider the "fate" of mutual recognition as an organising principle of EU internal market law and explore its evolving relationship with legislative harmonisation.
E.L. Rev. 2026, 51(1), 84-103, access via Westlaw UK.
Monochrome photograph featuring two women climbing on a rock face with ropes both wearing long dresses and hats
Rock climbers Lucy Smith and Pauline Rankin of the Ladies’ Scottish Climbing Club, 1908, Salisbury Crags, Scotland #WomensArt
Welcome to #WomensHistoryMonth
You guessed it but the US attack on Iran is manifestly illegal in international law. Thank you Prof Milanovic for such clear analysis in the @ejiltalk.bsky.social blog.
www.ejiltalk.org/the-american...
« The historians’ brief — authored by Professor Martha S. Jones and Professor Kate Masur — centers on the pre–Civil War advocacy of free Black Americans for a broad and inclusive principle of birthright citizenship. » www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
There have been a LOT of amicus briefs filed on both sides of the birthright citizenship issue for Trump v Barbara slated for oral argument on April 1 and decision probably in June. You can find all the briefs here: www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?...
40 years of Marshall (C-152/84)! 💼
⚖️The #CJEU ruled that dismissing a woman for reaching pension age, which is different for men, is sex discrimination under #EULaw – and that the Equal Treatment Directive can be relied upon against a state authority acting as employer.
I cannot recommend highly enough this free, open access resource for anyone teaching about slavery in the UK
uclpress.co.uk/book/teachin...
Four years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, in his co-edited book Asser Institute researcher Uladzislau Belavusau highlights how the Kremlin used 'memory laws' to deny Ukraine’s historical agency and weaponised history through legislation.
🔗 Read more: lnkd.in/eFQS3VSS
#MemoryLaws #Ukraine
The Council Europa building at night illuminated in two wide horizontal bands of blue over yellow, resembling the Ukrainian flag. Traffic light trails pass in front and European Union flags fly on poles to the left.
Tonight, the Council's Europa building is lit up in blue and yellow in solidarity with Ukraine.
The EU will continue to #StandWithUkraine and support a comprehensive, just and lasting peace.
It seems that I am not the only one having problems with the new @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social search tool... euobserver.com/203405/eu-to...
The European Court of Human Rights has dealt with over 430,000 applications in the last 10 years.
Less than 2% of those related to immigration.
And more than 90% of THOSE were dismissed by the Court.
Check out our new factsheet on migration and the ECHR👇
🔗 go.coe.int/MJ3B2
🇭🇺⚖️🇪🇺 Some words of mine - in absolutely stellar company of i.a. @profpech.bsky.social @profkochenov.bsky.social on yesterday's AG Kokott's opinion in the Commission vs Hungary case regarding the Hungarian Sovereignty Protection Office.
www.courthousenews.com/hungarys-for...
Hungarian measures put in place to protect national sovereignty against foreign political interference found to infringe EU Law, in an AG Opinion in Case C-829/24 Commission v Hungary
The Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers has waived the immunity of former Secretary General Thorbjørn Jagland following a request from the Norwegian authorities to pursue proceedings relating to allegations of aggravated corruption.
www.coe.int/en/web/porta...
It’s cold. It’s rainy. It’s February at its greyest and grimmest. So I thought that #RecipeOfTheDay just needed to be this Sticky Chocolate Pudding! www.nigella.com/recipes/stic...
An interesting lecture from Lord Sales which includes, among other topics, discussion of the Influence of public law ideas and values on private law development and the relationship between the common law and ECHR
supremecourt.uk/uploads/spee...
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‘Can cork man stay afloat?’ was right there.
Fairness towards people who come to Europe in search of protection, safety, or better opportunities does not seem to be something the Member States care much about.
The new draft Regulation on the return of migrants introduces return hubs, reduces protections, and aims to speed up and simplify the return process.
BERND PARUSEL warns that this new approach weakens human rights standards and punishes desperate people.
verfassungsblog.de/a-draconian-...
Catalan independence: CJEU (overturning General Court decision) finds in favour of three former MEPs (including Puigdemont) whose parliamentary immunity from prosecution had been removed by the European Parliament (EP), due to lack of impartiality in the EP process
⚖️🇷🇺 A vanishing point - ECtHR found this week that Russia had violated the right to life, personal liberty and security, as well as the prohibition of inhumane or degrading treatment, regarding Aleksey Nalavnyy after ultimately fatal detention in 2021. 1/
New report out today on the impact of the Supreme Court's s.28(7) jurisprudence, with @profnicolamcewen.bsky.social, @chrismccork.bsky.social and Jo Hunt.
www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...
Such shocking, terribly sad news.
🇬🇱 "So, although the legal process for Greenland to rejoin the EU would be relatively straightforward, the policy questions at stake mean that the re-entry would not be guaranteed."
✍️ @cbarnard.bsky.social & Denzil Davidson on whether Greenland could join the EU
🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/can-greenlan...
Artwork of a woman flying by hanging from her arms from a glider/large kite like contraption
"If you want to fly, you have to give up the shit that weighs you down"
- Toni Morrison.
Flying Machine, 2010 by artist Laurie Lipton #womensart
Worth noting as this may be the 1st time the activation of Art 7(1) in respect of Hungary has led a court in another EUMS to find the asylum application of a 🇭🇺 citizen admissible on account of Protocol no 24, point (b) before granting the application
@tinekestrik.bsky.social @petrabard.bsky.social
Today, the Court also released an overview of its case‑law.
It presents the most significant cases of 2025, especially those that broke new legal ground or addressed emerging issues.
