Even as Covid-19 is absorbed into ‘the new normal’, the government’s response continues to be framed by an emergency paradigm. This is underpinned largely by th...
Parliamentary scrutiny – a good thing?
The UK parliament identifies one of its main roles as ‘the close examination and investigation of government policies...
In this article, we argue that the perennial and widely-recognised problems with stop and search – its systematic targeting of Black people and other oppressed...
Even among those who welcomed the Supreme Court's decision on the prorogation of parliament, there has been concern that the Court has entered into d...
2019 is the fiftieth anniversary of the Ely inquiry – widely seen as the first public inquiry into a scandal in the NHS. Since then, NHS inquiries have prolife...
Yet Labour's strategy in the House of Lords has not been adapted to this new context. The 2015–17 Parliament was the first time in history that the Conservativ...
Lord Sumption, the former Supreme Court Justice and historian, devoted his 2019 Reith Lectures on Radio 4 to making the case that the law – particularly human ...
Since 2010, Theresa May’s ‘hostile environment’ for immigrants has
brought a catalogue of human rights violations and inequalities in Britain. Immigration
rule...
The Conservative Party regards
human rights as a ‘foreign’ imposition from Europe. Conservatives opposed
Labour's Human Rights Act (HRA) in 1998; recent manife...
The case of the ‘Stansted 15’, who are currently awaiting sentencing on terrorism-related charges, is not a one-off episode but part of a worrying trend. Peace...
On 4 April 2005, the Gender Recognition Act (GRA) – which allows people who have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria to change their legal gender – came into f...
Next month, the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) will consider the first draft (“Draft Zero”) of a new treaty on the human rights responsibilities of corporations....
