Human rights
Is Brenda Hale fearful for UK human rights?
The former president of the Supreme Court says we have taken our liberties for granted
Desperate bosses and vulnerable workers: We face an imminent "clash of the reasonable"
Employment law was not designed to adjudicate in the kinds of disputes that lie ahead
Harriet Harman: we must keep “a very careful eye” on UK commitment to human rights
The Labour grandee and human rights committee chair on lockdown, contact tracing and the urgent need to protect vulnerable groups
The Nazi leader that vanished, with Philippe Sands
The author of East West Street returns with another history about a dark family past
The government’s coronavirus legislation threatens essential freedoms
Human rights risk being forgotten in the understandable rush to protect public health
The next target in the project to “take back control”? Strasbourg and the Human Rights Act
The Eurosceptic right spies a chance to fulfil its long-held ambition of human rights destruction
Legal special podcast: Judicial review in Boris Johnson’s Britain
A crossover episode on judicial review and the Human Rights Act with the Better Human podcast
The sinister threat to human rights buried in the Conservative manifesto
The Tories’ latest pledge on the Human Rights Act is notable precisely for its attempt not to be
The government should keep its hands off the judiciary
We should not be sanguine about our own safeguards. My wish for 2020 is for a genuine commitment to uphold the Rule of Law
The UK is complicit in torture
Despite strict prohibitions in law, the UK has taken advantage of torture on a significant scale. And now the commitment to an independent judicial inquiry has been dropped
Helena Kennedy vs Jonathan Sumption: Are our human rights laws working?
Is the Human Rights Act a vital safeguard or inherently undemocratic? Two of Britain's finest legal minds go head-to-head
After Brexit they will come for human rights—and this time the public debate must be won
To leave the European Convention on Human Rights would be an act of epic historical selfishness