‘Is torture ever justified?’: The European Court of Human Rights decision in...
Natasha Simonsen is a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford. Previously, she worked as a consultant for UNICEF and has interned with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Pakistan....
View ArticleEvidence Obtained by Torture: Is it Ever Admissible?
Natasha Simonsen is a graduate student in the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford Earlier this month, the UK’s Special Immigration Appeals Commission (‘SIAC’) ordered the release from detention of...
View ArticleRussian Prisons: Still inhuman, Still degrading
Natasha Simonsen is a DPhil student in the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford. She was previously a consultant to UNICEF and has interned with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for...
View ArticleToo Soon for the Right to Hope? Whole Life Sentences and the Strasbourg...
Monday’s judgment by the European Court of Human Rights in Hutchinson v UK may have slowed progress towards the goal of ending whole-life sentences in the Council of Europe. That goal appeared to be...
View ArticleThe UK Supreme Court’s Blockbuster Decision in Belhaj
The UK Supreme Court has resoundingly rejected the contention that state immunity and/or foreign act of state barred courts from hearing claims of UK complicity in abduction and torture. The judgment...
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