On 25 June 2024 Julian Assange left Belmarsh Prison and began the journey back to his native Australia. A deal between the US and Assange was reached whereby he pled guilty to one count of conspiring to obtain and disclose classified US national defence information under Title 18 of the US Code in return for […]
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Current polls for the general election predict a new Labour Government will come to power on 4th July 2024. What might be the constitutional legacy of a future PM Starmer? The Labour Party Manifesto promises the establishment of a new independent Ethics and Integrity Commission. Whatever else a Starmer premiership might achieve, a constitutional ‘deep
The hostility that recent UK governments have shown towards human rights continues unabated. Indeed, it is increasing. It has been manifested in a number of ways. The origins of the antipathy can be traced to certain judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). Notable here are Hirst v UK and Al-Skeini v UK.
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Introduction Earlier this year, Sean Hogg, aged 21, was convicted by a jury of raping a 13-year-old girl when he was aged 17. He had no previous convictions. He was sentenced in the High Court at Glasgow to a Community Payback Order with a requirement that he carry out 270 hours of unpaid work. He
Every year a guest speaker from the Government Legal Service for Scotland is invited to give a presentation on an aspect of constitutional law to students on the undergraduate Constitutional law module at RGU Law School. This year our guest speaker was Fraser Gough whose presentation was entitled, ‘An Overview of the protection of human
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Extradition is considered an arcane, niche subject, if thought of at all. Falling between public international law and criminal law and procedure, and domestic politics and international relations, it is a subject without an obvious discipline. That does not make it less interesting and weighty. The opposite is true. Indeed, extradition is a keyhole through
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