Archive for category Human Rights
Many Consider Themselves Called, but in Truth Only Few Have Been Chosen
Posted by David Conway in Education, Human Rights, Religion on 30/06/2009
“The requirement that, if a pupil is to qualify for admission his mother must be Jewish, whether by descent or by conversion, is a test of ethnicity which contravenes the Race Relations Act.”
So three appeal court judges decided last week.
Human Rights Lawyers to be Given Field-Day in Court by Legal Ruling
Posted by David Conway in Education, Human Rights on 19/05/2009
Yesterday, the Court of Appeal ruled that the Human Rights Act extends to British soldiers serving overseas. As a result of yesterday’s decision, if a British soldier dies while on tour overseas, whether through combat or illness, his or her family will be able to sue the Ministry of Defence for the right to life of their relative having been breached.
A Terrible Decision
Posted by Nick Cowen in Human Rights on 30/12/2008
I cannot believe a recent appeal court decision that is reported in today’s newspapers. Earlier this month, an earlier decision of a lower court was upheld not to cancel debts of over £2,000,000 that a client of the bookmaker William Hill had incurred to it in 2006 through placing bets with it over the telephone.
It’s time to shelve the Equality Bill
Posted by James Gubb in Civil Liberty, Human Rights, Immigration, Multiculturalism, Political Correctness, Race and Equality on 30/10/2008
Trevor Phillips, chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), an organisation armed to the teeth with legal powers to protect groups that claim to be victims of oppression, recently expressed fears that the recession will not only harm ethnic minorities but also some white people.
“It is clear,” he said, “that what defines disadvantage won’t be black or brown, it will be white. And we will have to take positive action to help some white groups”.
Was he saying that we should help people when they need assistance, regardless of their colour? If so, he was spot on.
Continue at the Daily Telegraph Blog.
The Doped, the Detained, and the Depressed: Reflections on a Public Morality Gone Mad
Posted by David Conway in Crime, Health, Human Rights on 22/09/2006
Should Pete Doherty ever find himself banged up for possessing hard drugs, he would soon discover that incarceration had not remotely put them beyond his reach. This is especially so, should he have been incarcerated north of the border.
According to a report in yesterday’s Times, so easy has it become for inmates in Scottish prisons to gain access to illict hard drugs while inside them, and so awash with drugs have they become, that they are shortly all to be given personal drug-taking kits, complete with syringes, swabs, filers, and a sharps disposal box.
I was only surprised to read that a gram or two of heroin or coke is not be thrown for good measure.