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Inhuman Rights: Is the Sun Right About the Human Rights Act?

June 24, 2014

At the inaugural Media & Public Policy Lecture (Media Standards Trust and King’s Policy Institute), Baroness Helena Kennedy QC examined the relationship between the tabloid press in the UK and the Human Rights Act 1998. This article will examine in further detail some of the key issues that were raised.   It is no secret… More Inhuman Rights: Is the Sun Right About the Human Rights Act?

Human Rights: Between Parliamentary Supremacy and the Rule of Law

April 16, 2013

Introduction: It was not all long ago, November 2012, that 56% of the British population supported the idea of the United Kingdom leaving the European Union.[1] As the Prime Minister, David Cameron, put it in his speech on the EU referendum, some “of this antipathy about Europe in general really relates of course to the… More Human Rights: Between Parliamentary Supremacy and the Rule of Law