On Thursday night the BBC screened Rights Gone Wrong? presented by Andrew Neil and produced by Matthew Laza. I’m glad my mum reminded me to see it.

The human rights debate in this country seems to have got unfortunately bogged […]

Yesterday I explained the facts and legal background to this case, and a short account of the first day of the hearing, which concluded just after 1 pm today. I was again in court to hear Jason Coppel complete […]

Today was the first day of the Supreme Court’s hearing in the case of Humphreys v HMRC, about sex discrimination in the child tax credit system.

Mr Humphreys is complaining about the fact that HMRC refused him child tax credit in […]

In Without Prejudice this week Charon QC chairs a free speech special.

Nick Cohen, writer, journalist and author of You Can’t Read This Book joins barrister, policymaker and former Conservative candidate Joanne Cash, David Allen Green […]

Thanks to Antoine Buyse of the ECHR Blog, whose post at the UK Human Rights Blog alerted me to the leak of the UK’s draft declaration on reforms to the European Court of Human Rights, for agreement by […]

Everything Professor Conor Gearty says about human rights is interesting: he combines a great speaking style with a knack of saying something you didn’t quite expect. So this LSE “Burning Issue” lecture of his is bound to be worth seeing.

Jonathan Spelman, the 17-year-old rugby international and son of cabinet minister Caroline Spelman, obtained an injunction earlier this month restraining Express Newspapers – specifically, the Daily Star Sunday – from publishing information about him which, it was argued on […]

Last week the European Court of Human Rights handed down two important rulings in media privacy cases, Von Hannover v Germany (No. 2) and Axel Springer AG v Germany. These cases, in both of which the Court favoured […]

David Allen Green returns to Without Prejudice this week, I’m pleased to say, and Dr. Evan Harris is back with us too. Charon QC chairs as always, as we discuss the Leveson inquiry at the end of […]

I was live-tweeting today from the High Court hearing of Paul Chambers’s appeal in the “Twitter joke” case – an important case not just because of the way it represents the law’s arguably problematic collision with social media but […]