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....
Victims have traditionally had, at best, a spectator role in the criminal justice system. But the public significance of the victim has shifted over successive ...
We are in the midst of the latest and perhaps most radical reconfiguration of the penal state in the UK. Such changes are permeating all aspects of the landscap...
It is often said that there are no votes in prisons. This, I think, is largely true. Crime and justice has not been a prominent issue during recent elections, b...
