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UCL IHR - Does Britain Need a Bill of Rights?

UCL IHR - Does Britain Need a Bill of Rights?

Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 6:30 PM (GMT)

London, United Kingdom


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The UCL Institute for Human Rights Debate 


Does Britain Need a Bill of Rights?


26 October 2011
(rescheduled date)


Registration from 6:30pm
Event starts at 7pm

 

The UCL Institute for Human Rights is delighted to host a public debate on a British Bill of Rights

 

Participants:

Chris Bryant MP - Shadow Minister for Political and Constitutional Reform

Aileen Kavanagh - University of Oxford

Colm O'Cinneide - UCL

Saladin Meckled-Garcia - UCL Institute for Human Rights

The chair will be taken by Joshua Rozenberg, Presenter of the BBC's Law in Action


 

About the Event:

In March 2011 the Coalition government launched a Commission to investigate the case for a British Bill of Rights, which would replace the Human Rights Act (HRA). The HRA was passed by the Labour government in 1998, giving legal effect to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and allowing domestic courts to rely on the case law of the European Court of Human Rights. The question of whether Britain needs a UK Bill of Rights and the precise role of the ECHR at domestic level, divides experts and members of the public alike. The UCL Institute for Human Rights invites you to a public debate on this important constitutional question.

 

Please visit the Institute for Human Rights website for a recent article by Dr George Letsas in defense of the ECHR on Prisoner's Right to Vote

 

 


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UCL Cruciform Lecture Theatre 1
Cruciform Building
Gower Street
WC1E 6AE London
United Kingdom




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UCL Institute for Human Rights

UCL has always been at the forefront of challenging social exclusion and addressing questions of social justice. As a leading multidisciplinary university, UCL is committed to academic research that transcends boundaries between disciplines and offers novel and practicable solutions to global problems.

The UCL Institute for Human Rights (IHR) was established to bring the university’s multidisciplinary expertise (for example in law, the humanities, and social and medical sciences) to bear on human rights.

The UCL IHR brings together the broad range of teaching and research undertaken across UCL in subjects that fall within the broadly conceived field of human rights. It aims to advance and disseminate knowledge regarding issues of moral justification, legal interpretation and practical implementation of human rights, both domestic and international.

The institute also aims to equip students studying human rights with the knowledge and skills that will enable them to contribute to the human-rights movement, be it through civil society, governmental institutions or legal practice.

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