Student News
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 application...
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...
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...
How to be a Human Rights Lawyer
For many of us aspiring Human Rights lawyers, the prospect of fighting for our place in this increasingly competitive area of legal practice can be daunting. I am a current LPC LLM student and I know many of us, myself included, have been warned off and told that...
Mental Health and Human Rights
Positive public discussion of at least some of the most common mental health has scarcely been higher. Tireless work by campaigning organisations such as Mind, Scope, the Time to Change initiative has started to gain traction in the movement to reduce the stigma...
The HRLA’s Seminar Series – Article 5
On Wednesday 13 May 2015 the HRLA Young Lawyers’ Committee organised the latest in our human rights student seminar series on Article 5 of the Convention, the right to liberty and security. This seminar was kindly hosted by University College London at the fabulous...
The Right to Life
The HRLA’s Student Seminar Series Commences with a talk on the Right to Life at Church Court Chambers On Wednesday evening the Human Rights Lawyers’ Association’s Student Committee held part one of its Student Seminar Series which concerned Article 2 of the European...
Judicial Review Competition Final
On 15 May 2014 the final of the HRLA Judicial Review Competition was held at Middle Temple Hall. The two teams granted permission to apply for judicial review at the oral permission stage in March 2014 presented their submissions to the Divisional Court (Beatson LJ,...