Protesters on both sides of the abortion debate in London last month.Peter Nicholls/Reuters Three days after a British court ordered a developmentally disabled Nigerian woman to have an abortion against her and her mother’s wishes, an appeals court overturned that decision, the mother’s lawyer said Monday. Last week, a judge had ruled that an abortion …
High commissions as touch points for the Nigerian diaspora By Rotimi Fawole
Did you know that contrary to popular belief, an embassy or high commission is actually not sovereign foreign of the sending state, and also when you enter the premises of any Nigerian High Commission abroad, you are not standing on Nigerian soil. What the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations stipulates is that the premises of …
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I was Boris Johnson’s boss: he is utterly unfit to be prime minister by Max Hastings
The Tory party is about to foist a tasteless joke upon the British people. He cares for nothing but his own fame and gratification Six years ago, the Cambridge historian Christopher Clark published a study of the outbreak of the first world war, titled The Sleepwalkers. Though Clark is a fine scholar, I was unconvinced …
A concrete example of how to meet the “very compelling circumstances” deportation test By Iain Halliday
The Court of Appeal has upheld the appeal against deportation of a man sentenced to five years’ imprisonment, in the process providing a good example of the kind of human rights arguments that will sway judges in this notoriously difficult area of law. The court reiterated the high threshold that applies when a non-EEA citizen …
Mentally ill Nigerian woman launch appeal over forced abortion ruling
Stock picture It had been ruled that an abortion was in the woman’s best interestsThe mother of a mentally ill Catholic woman who a court has ordered to have an abortion has launched an urgent appeal against the ruling.Three judges in the Court of Appeal were asked to consider what is thought to be the …
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