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R (Barclay) v Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice

Hearings

England & Wales

18 Jun 2008 [2008] EWHC 1354 (Admin); [2010] 1 AC 464; [2008] 3 WLR 867; [2008] UKHRR 1284, QBD (Wyn Williams J)

02 Dec 2008 [2008] EWCA Civ 1319; [2010] 1 AC 464; [2009] 2 WLR 1205; The Times, 5 December 2008, CA (Pill, Jacob, Etherton LJJ)

01 Dec 2009 [2009] UKSC 9; [2010] 1 AC 464; [2009] 3 WLR 1270; [2010] 2 All ER 267; [2010] HRLR 10; [2009] WLR (D) 349; (2009) 159 NLJ 1737; The Times, 2 December 2009; Case details, SC(E) (Lord Hope of Craighead DPSC, Lord Scott of Foscote, Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood JSC, Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury MR, Lord Collins of Mapesbury JSC)

Subject Matter

HUMAN RIGHTS — Jurisdiction — Channel Islands — United Kingdom declaring Convention for Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms extending to Island of Sark as dependent territory — Whether Human Rights Act 1998 extending to Sark — Ministers and Privy Counsellors advising Queen to give Royal Assent to Laws proposed by legislature of Sark — Whether advisers acting as “public authority” — Human Rights Act 1998, s 6 — Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (1953), art 56, First Protocol, art 4

[2008] EWHC 1354 (Admin); [2010] 1 AC 464; [2008] 3 WLR 867; [2008] UKHRR 1284, QBD

HUMAN RIGHTS — Right to fair trial — Interference with — Sark Law providing for Sark judge to sit in Sark legislature — Whether judge independent and impartial tribunal — Whether Law infringing Convention right to fair trial — Human Rights Act 1998, Sch 1, Pt I, art 6(1)

[2008] EWHC 1354 (Admin); [2010] 1 AC 464; [2008] 3 WLR 867; [2008] UKHRR 1284, QBD

HUMAN RIGHTS — Right to free elections — Interference with — Sark Law providing for officials to sit as unelected members of Sark legislature and prohibiting aliens from standing for election to legislature — Whether impairing “free expression of the opinion of the people in the choice of the legislature” — Whether infringing Convention right to free elections — Whether “people” limited to citizens — Whether law breaching right of citizen of European Union to stand as candidate at “municipal elections” — Human Rights Act 1998, Sch 1, Pt II, art 3 — EC Treaty, art 19(1)EC

[2008] EWHC 1354 (Admin); [2010] 1 AC 464; [2008] 3 WLR 867; [2008] UKHRR 1284, QBD

Appellate History

R (Barclay) v Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice [2008] EWHC 1354 (Admin); [2010] 1 AC 464; [2008] 3 WLR 867; [2008] UKHRR 1284, QBD

Decision of Wyn Williams J reversed in part

R (Barclay) v Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice [2008] EWCA Civ 1319; [2010] 1 AC 464; [2009] 2 WLR 1205; The Times, 5 December 2008, CA

R (Barclay) v Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice [2008] EWHC 1354 (Admin); [2010] 1 AC 464; [2008] 3 WLR 867; [2008] UKHRR 1284, QBD

Decision of the Court of Appeal affirmed

R (Barclay) v Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice [2009] UKSC 9; [2010] 1 AC 464; [2009] 3 WLR 1270; [2010] 2 All ER 267; [2010] HRLR 10; [2009] WLR (D) 349; (2009) 159 NLJ 1737; The Times, 2 December 2009; Case details, SC(E)

Commentary

Blackstones Criminal Practice 2025
Human Rights and Proportionality D31.35

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