Tag: Colin Murray
Prisoner voting rights are another intractable struggle over Europe’s architecture for protecting human rights
Last week, an appeal by a French prisoner to the EU’s top court against his voting ban revived the debate about prisoner voting rights in the UK. Colin Murray writes that although the appeal was unsuccessful, the ruling did not foreclose the possibility of future successful challenges to bans on prisoner voting. He suggests that it is highly likely […]
The UKs muddled approach to prisoner voting rights looks set to continue
The UK’s continued delay in responding to the issue of prisoner voting has spawned a hydra-headed legal debacle. Whereas countries like Ireland quickly passed legislation to enfranchise prisoners following a 2005 European Court decision, the then Labour Government vacillated, seemingly hoping that if delayed for long enough the problem would go away. It didn’t go away, but […]
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