On October 2nd, we celebrated the twentieth anniversary of the Human Rights Act (HRA) coming into effect. Britain in Europe experts, and independent experts working with our think tank and Knowing Our Rights research project, from across UK academia as well as legal...
Professor Dimitrios Giannoulopoulos, from Goldsmiths University of London, Faculty of Law, gave a lecture to Collyers’ students on the operation and significance of human rights against the socio-political backdrop of continuing Euroscepticism and Brexit. Janene...
Goldsmiths Law is delighted to launch a programme of “European encounters”, intended to bring our students, academics and the wider public in the UK in contact with European institutions, to shed light on the work they are doing in key areas of activity...
The Knowing Our Rights (KOR) research project, sponsored in part by The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, is pleased to announce the inauguration of an inter-university human rights mooting competition. Inspired by KOR’s goal of increasing understanding of the...
"Research undertaken by 'Knowing Our Rights' and 'Britain in Europe' experts on the impact of Brexit on human rights is helping give the entire debate on Brexit a crucial human rights dimension. The argument, in particular, that the continued uncertainty over the...
Students from six Hillingdon schools participated in the ‘human rights and mock trial day’, delivered by the Knowing Our Rights (KOR) project, in collaboration with the widening participation office at Brunel University London. The students participated in various...
“[W]hile Article 8 [of the European Convention on Human Rights1] protects the confidentiality of all ‘correspondence’ between individuals, it affords strengthened protection to exchanges between lawyers and their clients. This is justified by the fact that lawyers are...
'Knowing Our Rights' is bringing to Brunel University London and Hillingdon the London North 'Debating Matters' competition, on March 5, in partnership with the Institute of Ideas and Debating Matters. More than 150 students from 12 schools from across London will...
The International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (25 November) marks an important day for the lives of women who have suffered egregious human rights violations and still to this day, battle to be free from violence Violence against women has been a...
This week, the House of Commons debated whether the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights should remain part of UK law, along with all other 'retained' EU legislation, post Brexit. Addressing fellow MPs, Dominic Grieve, the former Attorney General, whose defence of human...
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