human rights lawyers association


Welcome to the website of the Human Rights Lawyers Association.

Membership of the Human Rights Lawyers' Association (HRLA) is open to all connected with the law and the legal professions who have an interest in human rights law in the United Kingdom. HRLA members include solicitors, barristers, advocates, judges, government lawyers, legal academics, legal executives, in-house lawyers, pupils, trainees and law students. The Association currently has over 1800 members

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Upcoming HRLA Events

A UK Without Convention Rights: Freedom or Danger - A Comparative Conversation

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, London EC4Y 1HT

6-7.30pm Thursday 16th May, 2013


HRLA is grateful to Sigrid Rausing Trust for their generous sponsorship of the 2013 HRLA Bursary Scheme


HRLA Publications

HRLA, Response to the Commission on a Bill of Rights Discussion Paper: Do We Need A UK Bill of Rights? November 2011

HRLA, The Human Rights Act: Over Ten Years of Protection, Participation and Accountability, November 2011

EVENT Publications

Jim Duffy, UK Human Rights Blog Apocalypse Soon? The UK Without the European Convention on Human Rights May 2013

Chartering the Press: Is the Cure Worse Than the Disease? A Transatlantic Dialogue of Journalism and Law - Draft Royal Charter and Draft Alternative Royal Charter May 2013

Richard Reynolds Human Rights Lawyers' Association Holds First Judicial Review Competition at Middle Temple, March 2013

Andrew Puddephatt OBE Human Rights and the Internet (presentation), 21st November 2012

Further reading for Human Rights and Cyberspace: Molly K. Land Toward an International Law of the Internet (paper), 21st November 2012

Michael Shew, former head of Acland Burghley School, Human Rights Act and Education - Presentation Notes presented on 23rd April 2012, 23rd April 2012

Adrian Lee, Chief Constable of Northants police, Human Rights Act and Policing - Presentation Notes presented on 23rd April 2012, 23rd April 2012