Four UK teaching unions, the National Education Union (NEU), the NASUWT teacher’s union, the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT), and the Association of School and College Leaders accepted the government’s recent pay rise offer on Monday. The 6.5% increase in pay for UK teachers will bring planned industrial action in autumn to an end. [...]
The UK High Court ruled Thursday that the Home Secretary acted unlawfully by routinely accommodating unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UAS children) in hotels. The judge also held that Kent County Council acted unlawfully by breaching its legal duty to look after these children. In a judicial review case brought by the organization Every Child Protected Against [...]
Singapore Law and Home Affairs Minister K. Shanmugan asked the Singapore Police Force (SPF) on Friday to investigate allegations of racial discrimination and workplace bullying in the force made by a Singaporean police officer who was found dead the same day. The officer, 35-year-old Uvaraja Gopal, died in the hospital after being found unconscious near [...]
Experts from the United Nations (UN) Friday condemned the UK Illegal Migration Bill for its failure to follow international human rights standards. The experts urged the UK government to stop the implementation of the bill, which received Royal Assent and became domestic law in the UK on Saturday. The Illegal Migration Bill, introduced by Home [...]
UK members of Parliament overturned 18 amendments made by the House of Lords to the Illegal Migration Bill in a vote Tuesday. The four hour House of Commons sessions saw the rejection of the Lord’s amendment requiring the bill to follow international conventions, as well as an amendment dis-applying the new legislation from modern slavery [...]
Three non-governmental organizations filed for a judicial review claim on Friday against the UK government over its revised climate change strategy. The organizations seek to challenge the lawfulness of the government’s new plans, claiming they are “inadequate” to address the threat of climate change. Environmental and legal organizations Friends of the Earth, Client Earth and [...]
The UK High Court of Justice held Thursday that the Cabinet Office must hand over all documents Covid-19 Inquiry chair Baroness Heather Hallett requests, including former prime minister Boris Johnson’s diaries and WhatsApp messages. The Cabinet Office launched a judicial review case against Hallett’s request last week. While Hallett argued she should determine which documents [...]
The Court of Justice of the European Union dismissed an appeal Thursday from British citizens who challenged their loss of European Union (EU) citizen rights as a result of Brexit. The Court dismissed the appeal as “the appellants do not have an interest in bringing proceedings against the decision at issue.” The United Kingdom decided [...]
The UK Home Office announced Tuesday an expansion to the Disregards and Pardon Scheme to include women who were convicted under laws prohibiting same-sex activity, which have since been repealed. Women can now apply to be pardoned for these offences and have their convictions erased. While the UK partially decriminalised gay sex in 1967, offences [...]
Iceland issued new legislation banning “conversation therapy.” The legislation, passed late last week, would ban any attempt to change an individual’s sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. The new legislation, proposed by Viðreisnar parliamentary party chair and Reform Party MP Hanna Katrín Friðriksson, punishes anyone making an adult undergo conversion therapy with up to [...]
