Government plans to enfranchise prisoners serving sentences of up to four years are a welcome step towards complying with the European court judgment that declared the UK's blanket ban unlawful An affront to democracy , 10 January. Almost all of our European neighbours allow prisoners to vote; to pay their debt to society while remaining a part of it.
Our outdated approach, enshrined in the Forfeiture Act , to condemn people to "civic death" does the opposite. No better touchstone for a modern, civilised prison system has been offered since the then home secretary, Winston Churchill, stated in the Commons on 20 July "The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
A calm and dispassionate recognition of the rights of the accused against the state, and even those of convicted criminals against the state, a constant heart-searching by all charged with the duty of punishment, a desire and eagerness to rehabilitate in the world of industry all those who have paid their dues in the hard coinage of punishment, tireless efforts towards the discovery of curative and regenerating processes, and an unfaltering faith that there is a treasure, if you can only find it, in the heart of every man — these are the symbols which in the treatment of crime and criminals mark and measure the stored-up strength of a nation and are the sign and proof of the living virtue in it.
Blog of the European Journal of International Law Clara Sandoval and Prof. Thawing the frozen Conflict? No longer offering fine mantras to a parched child? What is Justice? Elizabeth Wilmshurst OUP, Tinkering with the powers of the human rights court could be dangerous , Guardian cif, 3 March Besson ed. Quelles sont les r?? Strasbourg's oversight of Russia — an increasingly strained relationship , Public Law, Winter , Positive Obligations from Strasbourg — where do the Boundaries Lie?
Russia should be held to account over human rights abuses , The Guardian, 9 February Stay inside when the wind blows your way — engaging environmental rights with human rights [] 4 Env. Liability The British military in Iraq — the applicability of the espace juridique doctrine under the European Convention on Human Rights, [] Public Law The effective assessment of clinical legal education , Investigations in University Teaching and Learning, London Metropolitan University, vol.
Leach, Philip On inter-state litigation and armed conflict cases in Strasbourg. In six seminars were organised throughout the region. The participating organisations have reached beneficiaries from the region. Majority of them were judges, prosecutors and deputy prosecutors, court advisors and judicial associates, but also attorneys and others representatives of international organizations and NGOs, ministries, ombudsperson offices, etc.
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