109 Civil Liberty Groups opose The Bill of Rights Bill
Statewatch, along with 122 other human rights, civil society and community organisations, are calling on MPs to vote against the proposed ‘Bill of Rights’, which would replace the Human Rights Act. The Bill of Rights Bill must be withdrawn and the Human Rights Act 1998 must be retained, as it Continue Reading
Why a new Bill of Rights?
The Bill of Rights Bill, UK in a changing Europe? The Bill of Rights Bill, published on June 22, 2022, would repeal and replace the Human Rights Act 1998. The Government’s Bill of Rights seeks to link back to older pieces of legislation by listing ECHR rights that are given Continue Reading
Liberty Responce to delay of Bill of Rights
BILL OF RIGHTS IS DELAYEDPosted on 07 Sep 2022 Martha Spurrier, Liberty’s Director, said: “It is a relief to hear that the Government’s Bill of Rights is reportedly being shelved. Overhauling the Human Rights Act was not a manifesto commitment and would have been the biggest blow to human rights Continue Reading
Crimes That Changed the Law – the Murder of Maxwell Confait
Crimes that Changed the Law – Interrogation and P.A.CE.
Peaceful Protest – ‘Domestic Extremism’?
Police must stop categorising protest activities in this way, say 152 campaigners, lawyers, academics, journalists and politicians John Catt in 2010, the year he discovered that police had conducted surveillance on him at demonstrations between 2005 and 2009. This year the European court of human rights ruled that police acted Continue Reading
Corby Black Lives Matter Protest
Today in Corby hundreds gathered in James Ashworth VC Square outside the Corby Cube in Northamptonshire to attend what was a peaceful and powerful “Black Lives Matter” protest. It was a family affair, with many people angry at the death of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police Continue Reading
