Monthly Archives: July 2008

Civil liberties violated by electronic interception

European Court of Human RightsPublished July 11, 2008Liberty and Others v United Kingdom(Application No 58243/00)Before L. Garlicki, President and Judges Sir Nicholas Bratza, L. Mijovic, D. Thór Björgvinsson, J. Šikuta, P. Hirvelä and M. PoalelungiSection Registrar L. EarlyJudgment July 1, … Continue reading

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Ocampo’s great gamble

The deep drama, for lovers of Sudan, that surrounded Luis Moreno-Ocampo’s request that President Omar al-Bashir be indicted for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity was briefly interrupted, quite unwittingly, by state television yesterday a few hours after Ocampo … Continue reading

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Obama moves to the ‘right’-what’s left?

From The TimesJuly 4, 2008Barack Obama’s policy switches are giving the Left whiplash The Democratic nominee’s policy pivots are causing anguish among liberals. He is no fool Gerard Baker Change, it turns out, wasn’t all that it was cracked up … Continue reading

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Human Rights conference

The Annual Human Rights Law Conference, organised jointly by JUSTICE and Sweet & Maxwell, has become the central forum for analysing changes under the Human Rights Act. The Human Rights Law Conference 2008 Building on ten years of the Human … Continue reading

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Food crisis

It’s been called the silent tsunami1 – the global food crisis that is adding inexorably tostarvation’s daily death toll. With 862 million people in the world already malnourished,2rocketing food prices are pushing another 100 million people into dire poverty.3Weakened by … Continue reading

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Witness anonymity: a slippery slope

Malcolm Swift, QC The decision this week to halt a murder trial at the Old Bailey follows a ruling on June 19 by the House of Lords that granting anonymity to witnesses threatened with intimidation could render a trial unfair. … Continue reading

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As we suffer, City speculators are moving in for the kill

Two years ago there was a music festival at Knebworth that was very different. At ‘Hedgestock’ 4,000 hedge fund managers and investors paid £500 a ticket for a weekend of rock’n’roll, champagne, laser clay pigeon shooting and seminars on arcane … Continue reading

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Bush is trying to impose a classic colonial status on Iraq

Whatever the Iraq war was about, we were assured, it definitely wasn’t about oil. Tony Blair called the idea a “conspiracy theory”. It was about democracy and dictatorship, weapons of mass destruction and human rights, anything but oil. Donald Rumsfeld, … Continue reading

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