Survivors Question Role of U.K. Home Office in Child Abuse Inquiry
Survivors Question Role of U.K. Home Office in Child Abuse Inquiry Leah McGrath GoodmanNewsweekAugust 18, 2015 After years of horrifying revelations about sexual abuse of children by people of power and influence, Britain called in a judge from New Zealand in a bid to...
Thousands of Vulnerable Children Go Missing from Britain’s Protective Services
Thousands of Vulnerable Children Go Missing from Britain’s Protective Services Leah McGrath GoodmanNewsweekMarch 3, 2015 Many of the child sex abuse scandals that have shocked Britain in recent years involve victims who were supposed to be under the protection...
David Miranda and the Human-Rights Black Hole
In 2013, Miranda filed a lawsuit against the U.K.’s Home Office and the Metropolitan Police Service claiming he was unlawfully detained and interrogated under the Terrorism Act 2000. He also claimed that his right to freedom of expression guaranteed under Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR) was violated. The U.K.’s High Court of Justice rejected the suit in February 2014, and his case is due to go to appeal in the first half of 2015.
