HRLA Submission to the IHRAR
In March 2021, following consultation with the Human Rights Lawyers Association membership, a working group of the HRLA Executive Committee drafted a submission to the IHRAR. This work forms a crucial part of continuing the HRLA's tradition of defending the...
Human Rights and Diplomacy: British Citizens Detained Abroad
HRLA and the British Institute for International and Comparative Law (BIICL) were pleased to host their first joint event last month entitled ‘Human Rights and Diplomacy:British Citizens Detained Abroad’. Gathered in the Grotius Library at BIICL, the...
Terrorism and Human Rights: An Evening with Max Hill QC
Earlier this month HRLA’s Young Lawyers Committee met in the historic hall at Gray’s Inn with outgoing terror watchdog Max Hill QC for a discussion on terrorism and human rights. This was Hill’s last engagement as Independent Reviewer of Terrorism...
Interventions in the Supply Chain
ICA, 20 June 2018 Given the political and legal landscape that maintains under-regulated environments and guarantees lower costs for companies, achieving corporate accountability for supply chain abuses remains a challenge. The HRLA and ICA brought together an...
The 6th Annual HRLA Judicial Review Competition: A Success and Showcase of Tremendous Advocacy
The annual HRLA Judicial Review Competition is open to law students throughout the United Kingdom. The application process involves teams of two submitting paper applications for permission to judicial review. Eight teams are then chosen to make an oral...
Being a (Physically) Disabled Lawyer: the Lessons Learned
Disabled people face the same prejudicial obstructions as women, gender, sexual and romantic minorities, ethnic minorities and the working class. They also have further obstacles, such as architecture, ableist practices and life inconveniences. On 27 February 2018, a...
Defending Liberty in the age of Donald Trump: A View from the Front
On February 5 two eminent civil liberties advocates from opposite sides of the Atlantic discussed the importance of individual and collective engagement in defending liberty. Following a touching tribute by Martin Westgate QC to a true friend of liberty – Sir Henry...
A Review of the Human Rights Year: Rebels with a Cause
Anyone who’s had access to the internet or a newspaper this year will agree that the events that transpired have caused a great deal of concern for human rights across the world. This year alone, we saw the inauguration of President Trump, the Grenfell tragedy and...
From the Chair
My Name is Angela. I am a Human Rights Lawyer. As 2017 comes to a close, I was delighted to host an exceptional panel for our Annual Review last night with Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, Dominic Grieve QC MP, Angela Jackman, Afua Hirsch and Professor Conor Gearty....
Faith, Conscience and Human Rights
Questions of religion and society are as complex as they are controversial. 2017 alone has been indicative of this with several terrorist attacks carried out in the name of Islam, court judgments banning headscarves in the workplace, and more recently, the prohibition...