Judges will no longer be required to give legal permission to end care for patients in a long-term permanent vegetative state if doctors and families agree, the Supreme Court has ruled.
Legislation designed to limit access to abortions in Northern Ireland is a breach of human rights law, the Belfast High Court has ruled.
The eradication of the Liberal Democrats as a major political force is already having some rather stark consequences – and one of them may be the end of the 1998 Human Rights Act.
The European Court of Human Rights has dismissed the case of ‘naked rambler’ Stephen Gough, who claimed that he suffered repression over his public nudity.
The Tories have announced plans to scrap the Human Rights Act if they win at next year’s general election, stripping British citizens of the final layer of protection from governmental abuse.