The AIRE Centre is a specialist human rights legal charity, which uses the power of European law to protect individual and collective fundamental rights [The AIRE Centre]. The AIRE Centre intervened in Cheshire West and applied to intervene in the AG’s Reference but was refused permission.
Category Archives: Supreme Court
If you were a Supreme Court judge, how would you decide Cheshire West Revisited?
Observers form opinions about what they see, opinions informed by their own unique expertise and knowledge base (professional and personal).
The Mostyn Objection
The writer and political salonnière Jeanne Marie “Manon” Roland was guillotined in Paris on 8th November 1793. Legend has it that her last words on the scaffold were, “O Liberté, que de crimes on commet en ton nom!”—“Oh Liberty, what crimes are committed in your name!”
Abstract argument: The Attorney General for Northern Ireland’s Reference to the Supreme Court
Many of the hypothetical arguments and postulated facts raised at the hearing concerned not the issue of consent on which the Attorney General sought guidance, but the wider issue of whether Cheshire West was correctly decided viz. the “acid test”. That question was raised late in the day by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care who does not have standing to refer cases directly to the Supreme Court himself…
When open justice undermines public confidence: Scrutinising the Supreme Court
Justice is not a cloistered virtue; she must be allowed to suffer the scrutiny and respectful, even though outspoken, comments of ordinary men
“Liberty” in the Supreme Court
“What about somebody who is so demented they’re effectively catatonic. Just spend the day in front of a television set. Is that person- In what sense does that person have any liberty which she can be deprived of?” (Lord Reed)
Promoting Open Justice in the Court of Protection 