Introduction 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 ...

Deb and Graham characterise my argument as follows: “the right to life under Article 2 is absolute and allows no exception; ...

Associated Newspapers Limited, which owns the Daily Mail newspaper among others, was required to pay significant costs incurred by successful claimants who sued it for breaches of privacy and ...

Tindall and another (Appellants) v Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police (Respondent) [2024] UKSC 33, on appeal from [2022] ...

Anurag Deb and Lewis Graham Introduction There are many well-tuned arguments both for and against the liberalisation of the ...

Deb and Graham characterise my argument as follows: “the right to life under Article 2 is absolute and allows no exception; there is a negative obligation upon the UK not to take life; any euthanasia ...

As I explained in my blog post the “negative obligation prohibits the State from conducting euthanasia and assisted suicide itself, even as part of a well-regulated scheme with appropriate safeguards.

Article 2 of the ECHR protects the right to life. That article contains two distinct substantive obligations: “the general obligation to protect by law the right to life, and the prohibition of ...