Tag: Human rights
What’s the point of the Race Relations Act if black people are STILL discriminated against?
Fifty years since the act was passed and it’s not clear how far we’ve come
80% of lawyers think French police are WRONG to make women remove their burkinis
Solicitors and barristers pass judgment on controversial ban
We’re still scrapping the Human Rights Act, says Liz Truss
Brexit fails to win reprieve for HRA
Why homosexual asylum seekers’ sexual identities are still not being respected
The Supreme Court's HJ judgment: a case comment
Legal profession comes out in defence of ‘military chasing’ Public Interest Lawyers
Makes a change from the barrage of abuse the firm is used to
Jewish human rights: No need to boycott the boycotters, says High Court
Is this the biggest setback to British equality law in modern history?
Top English lawyers are really worried about Turkey’s sacking of 2,745 judges after failed coup
Bar Council and Law Society prepare for action
Joshua Rozenberg: Are universities meeting their legal duty to ensure free speech for students?
Some institutions are acting within the law, but others may not be
Vladimir Putin is poster boy for satirical anti-UK Snoopers’ Charter campaign
Russian President is joined by political leaders including Chinese President Xi Jinping appearing to endorse controversial bill
Gove’s Bill of Rights is basically the same as the Human Rights Act, groans House of Lords
Government should shelve grand but pointless nationalist gesture
Judges, you need to catch up with parliament in your treatment of transgender people
Stop reminding litigants what used to be between their legs
Race in the criminal justice system: What role does it play 20 years after the OJ Simpson trial?
Police brutality is alive and well on the streets of America
Liberty mocks UK Snoopers’ Charter in candid camera campaign film
Human rights charity documents people's reactions to comedian demanding to look through their mobile phones
*Scrapping Human Rights Act facepalm*
Patrick Stewart appears in comedy pro-ECHR video, but not all lawyers are impressed
Former Liberty director Shami Chakrabarti to join top commercial set 39 Essex Chambers
From human rights to big money barristering
Doughty Street junior barrister replaces Shami Chakrabarti as director of Liberty
Martha Spurrier was called to the bar in 2010, the same year as Amal Clooney
Julian Assange, you’re not being ‘arbitrarily detained’: step forward and stop evading the rule of law
The United Nations couldn’t have got this any more wrong if it’d tried
Joshua Rozenberg: Supreme Court to sort out bedroom tax mess — but it won’t be easy
The background to this week’s human rights showdown explained
We spoke to a London human rights lawyer about China locking up human rights lawyers
He describes the arrests as “obviously unjustified”
Iraq abuse inquiry firm comes out swinging against Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal referral
Leigh Day says challenges against MoD are an important check and balance
Top EU law academic tells parliament to stop being so selfish about human rights
UK government needs to set a good example to other countries