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|  Al-Skeini & Others v. Secretary of State for Defence [2007] | |
| House of Lords holds that HRA applies to British forces outside UK |
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| Huang v SSHD; Kashmiri v SSHD [2007] UKHL 11 | |
| The HL unanimously rejected the SSHD’s submissions in these conjoined appeals |
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| R (Laporte) v Chief Constable of Gloucestershire [2006] UKHL 55 | |
| The House of Lords held that the stopping of demonstrators on the way to RAF Fairford was unlawful. Rabinder Singh QC represented Liberty, which intervened at the hearing. |
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| SSHD v K (FC); Fornah (FC) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (2006) | |
| Rabinder Singh QC and Nicholas Blake QC were involved in this case concerning the law relating to social group persecution within the meaning of the Refugee Convention. |
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| Secretary of State for Defence v Elias (2006) | |
| Concerned a compensation scheme to repay the “debt of honour” owed to civilians who were interned in the Far East by Japan during the Second World War |
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| S and Others v Secretary of State for the Home Department (2006) | |
| Rabinder Singh QC in this victory for Afghans in Government’s failed appeal |
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| GNER v Office of Rail Regulation (2006) | |
| Matrix barristers Rabinder Singh QC, Rhodri Thompson QC, Jessica Simor and Helen Mountfield acted in an EC challenge to railway charging regime |
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| R (Gentle & Ors) v Prime Minister & Ors (2006) | |
| Rabinder Singh QC appeared for the families of four soldiers killed on duty in Iraq who are seeking a judicial review of the government’s decision not to hold an independent inquiry into the invasion of Iraq. |
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| R (Countryside Alliance and Others) v Attorney-General and Another; Regina (Derwin and Others) v Same Regina (Friend and Another) v Same. (2006) | |
| Concerned whether the Hunting Act engaged rights under the European Convention of Human Rights and the EC Treaty |
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| Watkins v Secretary of State for the Home Department and Others (2006) | |
| Concerned whether the tort of misfeasance in public office required special damage. |
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| Gillan and Quinton v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis and another (2006) | |
| Concerned police powers to stop and search, where the claimants were a student demonstrator and a journalist present at a protest against the Docklands ExCel Centre arms fair. |
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| R v Jones; R v Milling; R v Olditch; R v Pritchard; R v Richards; Ayliffe and Others v DPP; Swain v DPP (2006) | |
| Concerned whether protesters against the Iraq war could justify their conduct on the ground that they were preventing a crime or an offence by the government. |
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| Januzi v Secretary of State for the Home Department; Hamid v Same; Gaafar v Same; Mohammed v Same (2006) | |
| Concerned whether a person could reasonably be expected to avail himself of the internal flight alternative, where this was the means by which persecution could be avoided following deportation. |
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| Ramzy v Netherlands (2006) | |
| This Strasbourg case concerns return to torture in national security cases (re-visiting Chahal). |
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| D and Others v Secretary of State for the Home Department (2005) | |
| Concerned the tort of false imprisonment and the right to liberty as guaranteed by Article 5 ECHR. |
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| R (Limbuela) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (2005) | |
| This case concerned the refusal of support to asylum seekers under section 95 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999, as required by section 55 of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002, on the ground asylum had not been claimed as soon as reasonably practicable after arrival in the United Kingdom. |
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| R (Elias) v Secretary of State for Defence (2005) | |
| Concerned whether the Far Eastern prisoner of war ex-gratia compensation scheme of the Ministry of Defence was unlawful and indirectly discriminatory, where British citizens not born in the UK, or whose parents or grandparents were not born there, were denied such compensation. |
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| R (Rashid) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (2005) | |
| Concerned judicial review of the Secretary of State's failure to apply his own policy of not relying on the internal flight alternative to the Kurdish autonomous zone in Iraq. |
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| R (Al-Skeini & Others) v Secretary of State for Defence (2005) | |
| This case before the Court of Appeal concerned whether the Human Rights Act 1998 applied to British forces operating in Iraq at the time. The Court held that the Act had extraterritorial effect where a public authority was found to have exercised extraterritorial jurisdiction on the application of authority of state agent principles. Rabinder Singh QC and Christine Chinkin appeared for the claimants. |
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| Hirst v UK (No 2) (2005) | |
| Rabinder Singh QC in Grand Chamber judgment about whether prisoners should be given right to vote under ECHR |
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| A and Others v Secretary of State for the Home Department (2004) | |
| The case dealt with whether indefinite detention without charge or trial of non-nationals suspected of terrorist activities is compatible with UK human rights obligations. Ben Emmerson QC, Philippe Sands QC and Raza Husain appeared for seven of the appellants. Rabinder Singh QC and Alex Bailin acted on behalf of Liberty as intervenors. |
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| R (S and Marper) v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police (2004) | |
| Rabinder Singh QC represented the Secretary of State for the Home Department in this case about the lawfulness of retention of DNA and fingerprint evidence. |
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| Ghaidan v Godin-Mendoza (2004) | |
| Rabinder Singh QC successfully argued that discrimination against same-sex partners in respect of inheriting the right to a rent-restricted flat was in violation of the Human Rights Act. |
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| R (Ullah) v Special Adjudicator (2004) | |
| The House of Lords considered whether any article of the ECHR - other than Article 3 - can be engaged in relation to deporting an individual when it can be anticipated that his treatment in the receiving state will be in breach of Convention requirements, but without being in breach of Article 3. Nicholas Blake QC represented Ullah. Rabinder Singh QC and Raza Husain acted on behalf of Liberty and Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants. |
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| R (A) v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire (2004) | |
| The House of Lords confirmed that the reach of community law in outlawing discrimination against transsexuals in the field of employment law was wider than the reach of human rights law that only prohibited such treatment after the date of the Strasbourg decision in Goodwin. Nicholas Blake QC, Rabinder Singh QC, Mathew Purchase and former Matrix member, Sir David Bean QC all appeared in this case. |
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| R (Middleton) v West Yorkshire Coroner (2004) | |
| House of Lords case concerning available verdict where the authorities failed to take reasonable actions to prevent a suicide in custody. Ben Emmerson QC and Danny Friedman appeared for the Respondent Middleton. Rabinder Singh QC appeared for the Appellant. |
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| R (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) v The Prime Minister and Ors (2002) | |
| Rabinder Singh QC and Charlotte Kilroy represented CND in this case concerning the justiciability and legality of the Iraq |
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