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Wowzers. Here is the judgment (haven't read it yet) hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=001-1968…
Here is the press release. Not full win for applicants - applicant who cared for her disabled daughter did not succeed because Discretionary Housing Payments could make up a shortfall in rent. The applicant who was a victim of domestic violence succeeded hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=003-6545…
Basically it looks like the Strasbourg Court agreed with Lady Hale and Lord Carnwath's dissent in the Supreme Court re domestic violence in [2016] UKSC 58 supremecourt.uk/cases/docs/uks…
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Also, just whilst we’re on the subject, I recorded the most amazing episode with these two wonderful human rights heroes (and @DoughtyStreet colleagues) which I’m saving for Human Rights Day. It’s a total cracker, could have gone on all night
It’s basically The Reunion for the passing of the Human Rights Act. It was so good I’m going to do a follow up. Also, @JonathanCoopr extremely kindly recorded a separate episode, also brilliant, about the history of 🏳️‍🌈 LGBT+ and human rights laws. That’s the next episode
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Just occurred to me I and a number of my Bar colleagues may today have been been in breach of the new @barstandards social media guidance, specifically getting into "heated debates or arguments". And yet we have done nothing wrong or outside the Code. 1/2 barstandardsboard.org.uk/uploads/assets…
I think the guidance is misguided and should be withdrawn and rewritten. BSB should of course guide barristers not to act dishonestly, with integrity, not to discriminate, but heated debates are the lifeblood of democracy & Art 10 ECHR. Happy to help @barstandards reword 2/2
@barstandards Also can't leave this without saying

LET'S HAVE A HEATED DEBATE!

RIP wonderful Caroline Aherene
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This is a really interesting question with (for me) no obvious answer. I acted for a (amateur) grime rapper a few years ago in a gang injunction case where the police tried to use his YouTube lyrics as evidence for the order. Judge wasn't that bothered by the Art 10 arguments!
... I won on other grounds though! ukhumanrightsblog.com/2015/01/19/gri…

Then the government said they needed stronger laws in part because of this case and slipped them through parliament with almost no scrutiny. Sometimes winning is losing too!
On the day of the High Court appeal the judge asked me if I had seen that morning's Times, where an article had been mischievously placed I imagine by the Home Office thetimes.co.uk/article/gang-l…

*Narrator voice*: The government's amendment quickly passed
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THREAD: In a landmark Judgment today, the European Court of Human Rights declared that the UK Surveillance-State's data collection regime violated citizens' privacy and human rights.

Details summarised in the Court's (non-binding) press release in the picture below.
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