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Angela Patrick is a barrister at Doughty Street Chambers, a member of the Equality and Human Rights Commission panel and sits on the LAG board of trustees. She writes in a personal capacity.
Judges highlighted Laura’s commitment to children’s rights in her work with the Howard League and beyond, to legal aid and LAG, and to...
The government has published a draft Remedial Order on changes to HRA 1998 s9(3) to expand the circumstances when judicial errors can attract damages.
When just satisfaction requires damages to be paid, they should put the claimant in, so far as possible, the same position as if their rights had not...
In the final of her series of articles, Angela Patrick looks at common law and Human Rights Act remedies when public authorities fail.
If the EU (Withdrawal) Bill, currently awaiting its committee stage in the House of Commons, becomes law, ‘Is it broke?’ might become a...
In the third of her series of articles, Angela Patrick charts the development of common law protection for the often-competing rights of freedom of...
On 26 July 2017, a seven-justice Supreme Court in R (Unison) v Lord Chancellor [2017] UKSC 51 confirmed the reach of the fundamental common law right...
In the second of her series of articles, Angela Patrick looks at how the common law protects the fundamental right of access to justice.
As the pre-election issue goes to print, any crystal ball-gazing speculation will be dated by the time this magazine hits your desks. However, one...
Angela Patrick introduces a new series of articles on the tricky issue of using the common law for the protection of human rights.