The UCL Institute for Human Rights Debate

Does Britain Need a Bill of Rights?

26 October 2011
(rescheduled date)

Registration from 6:30pm
Event starts at 7pm

The UCL Institute for Human Rights is delighted to host a public debate on a British Bill of Rights

Participants:

Chris Bryant MP - Shadow Minister for Political and Constitutional Reform

Aileen Kavanagh - University of Oxford

Colm O'Cinneide - UCL

Saladin Meckled-Garcia - UCL Institute for Human Rights

The chair will be taken by Joshua Rozenberg, Presenter of the BBC's Law in Action

About the Event:

In March 2011 the Coalition government launched a Commission to investigate the case for a British Bill of Rights, which would replace the Human Rights Act (HRA). The HRA was passed by the Labour government in 1998, giving legal effect to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and allowing domestic courts to rely on the case law of the European Court of Human Rights. The question of whether Britain needs a UK Bill of Rights and the precise role of the ECHR at domestic level, divides experts and members of the public alike. The UCL Institute for Human Rights invites you to a public debate on this important constitutional question.

Please visit the Institute for Human Rights website for a recent article by Dr George Letsas in defense of the ECHR on Prisoner's Right to Vote