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In this video, Jon Gaunt dive deep into the current state of UK politics under Keir Starmer and explore the implications of Brexit in name only. Despite the promises of regained sovereignty after Brexit, the UK remains entangled in EU influence, particularly due to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). The ongoing migrant crisis and the government's inability to tackle the small boats invasion further illustrate this. With the looming threat of Donald Trump's tariffs—especially the 25% tariff on UK cars—it's clear that the UK must prove its independence from the EU to the world, including the USA. Keir Starmer, a staunch proponent of the EU, seems to be working towards maintaining the UK's close ties to the bloc, evident through his "coalition of the willing." While the EU and the UK have little sway over the Ukraine-Russia peace talks, the USA holds all the cards. Why does Starmer seem to align more with figures like Macron instead of supporting Trump's approach? Jon Gaunt argues that the UK shares far more common ground with the USA than with the EU, particularly in terms of culture, language, and politics. Keywords and Tags: Keir Starmer, UK politics, Brexit, EU membership, UK sovereignty, European Union, small boats crisis, illegal immigration, Trump tariffs, Brexit in name only, ECHR, UK-US relations, coalition of the willing, Ukraine Russia peace, Jon Gaunt, free speech, UK news, political debate, UK independence, UK-USA relations, political commentary, EU bloc, sovereignty after Brexit.
Is UK criminal justice really heading towards a two-tier sentencing system? A fierce debate has erupted over the Sentencing Council's new guidance on pre-sentence reports, which highlights the need for greater consideration of certain defendant groups, including ethnic minorities. Critics argue that this risks creating an uneven playing field, while supporters insist it's a necessary step toward fairness in sentencing. The Justice Secretary's reaction has only added fuel to the fire - prompting a scathing six-page rebuke from Lord Justice William Davis, the Chair of the Sentencing Council. You can find his letter here. Ken Macdonald KC and Tim Owen KC break down the implications of this controversy, before turning their attention to reports that No. 10 may introduce legislation to limit the influence of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) in immigration cases. Does the threat of Europe-wide populism mean that we now have to view mass migration in a different way, and as a serious threat to the prevailing European culture of liberal democracy?
Who REALLY Controls UK Immigration? Judges, Government, or a Clown?
IntroductionLIVE from your ESG Hanukkah Jesus Bush, it's a Business Pants Friday Show here at December 20th Studios, featuring AnalystHole Matt Moscardi. On today's YEARLY wrap up: Everything.Our show today is being sponsored by Free Float Analytics, the only platform measuring board power, connections, and performance for FREE.Story of the Year (DR):Exxon Sues Two ESG Investors [Follow This, Arjuna Capital] MMJudge voids Elon Musk's "unfathomable" $56 billion Tesla pay packageBoeingBoeing CEO says it was 100% his own decision to resignBoeing CEO's tearful apologyBoeing pleads guilty to fraud in fatal 737 Max crashes, fined $243.6 millionBoeing names Robert ‘Kelly' Ortberg as new president and CEOBoeing factory workers strike for first time since 2008 after overwhelmingly rejecting contractTrump's victory adds record $64bn to wealth of richest top 10The Murder of Brian Thompson, UnitedHealthcare C.E.O. DRGoodliest of the Year (MM/DR):DR: 2,000 senior women win “biggest victory possible” in landmark climate caseMore than 2,000 older Swiss women have won a landmark European case proving that government climate inaction violates human rights.The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Tuesday that Switzerland had not acted urgently to achieve climate targets, leading victims, who are mostly in their 70s, to suffer physically and emotionally while potentially placed at risk of dying.The women, part of a group called KlimaSeniorinnen (Senior Women for Climate Protection), filed the lawsuit nine years ago. DR: Minnesota capital St. Paul makes history as first large U.S. city with all-female councilDR: Delta paying $1.4 billion in profit sharing payments to employeesDR: 42% of shareholders vote against BlackRock CEO Larry Fink's payMM: Stakeholders rule: U.S. bans noncompete agreements for nearly all jobs: MM“30 million people, or one in five American workers are bound by noncompetes. It will take effect later this year, except for existing noncompetes that companies have with senior executives ‘on the grounds that these agreements are more likely to have been negotiated.'”MM: Women > men: First NCAA women's basketball championship surpasses men's viewership: DR“Iowa-South Carolina game averaged 19 million viewers, 24M in the final 15 minutes. Men's averaged 15 million. Year of renegotiating for women's basketball.”MM: Porn figures it out: A Pornhub Chatbot Stopped Millions From Searching for Child Abuse VideosMeanwhile… “Google's Search AI Recommends Changing Your Car's Blinker Fluid, Which Is a Made Up Thing That Does Not Exist.”Researchers Call for "Child-Safe AI" After Alexa Tells Little Girl to Stick Penny in Wall SocketGoogle's Gemini Chatbot Explodes at User, Calling Them "Stain on the Universe" and Begging Them To "Please Die"Meta's AI Refuses to Show Asian Men With White WomenMM: Study: Playing Dungeons & Dragons helps autistic players in social interactions Assholiest of the YEAR (MM):Sam AltmanSam Altman will return to OpenAI's board with three new directors“Our primary fiduciary duty is to humanity.” - So let's summarize - we have a board with Bret Taylor (ex Twitter chair, Salesforce founder, worked at Google, worked at Facebook and created the like button), Larry Summers (grumpy grandpa Harvard who thinks women are unable to compete with men and was master of Harvard when Zuck founded Facebook), Adam D'Angelo (founder of Quora, former CTO of Facebook), Sue DH (who was on board of Facebook), Fidji Simo (who lead monetization at Facebook), and the only NON FB alums Sam Altman (the master and founder) and Nicole Seligman (who oversaw one of the largest hacks in history and has a history on boards of CBS/Viacom under dictators)...Proxy voters DRDisney Shareholders Are Selling Their Proxy Votes Online - IndieWireA share of Disney is currently hovering at $118.Buying the vote is currently valued at $0.20.The current economic value to shareholder right value multiple is 590:1McDonald's CEO Kempczinski to assume role of board chairmanMiles White named Lead Independent DirectorDirector since 2009 (15 years)Connected to 58% of the CURRENT boardHas nearly 40 loops back to board members in the last 7 years aloneWas on the board for the disaster that was Steve EasterbrookMiles is part of the Boeing American Board Other board history:LIDsThere are 284 US large caps out of just over 600 with CEO/Chair combo, founder, or executive chair and a Lead Independent Director on the board - that's 47% of US large cap boardsAt 59% the LID has 10+ years of tenureAt 29% BOTH the executive AND the LID have more than 10 years of tenure - as in they worked together for a decadeAppointments, not electionsNumber of new directors appointed from 6/1/23 to 6/1/24: 1,875Average time between appointment and election: ~4 monthsThomas Gayner was added to the Coca Cola board and served 10 full months before he got a vote from investors - and they voted 39.1% AGAINST SEC charge hinges on director's lack of ‘social independence'20% of every US large cap board is connected inside two degrees JUST FROM OTHER BOARDSWe just covered Parker Hannifin on our show Proxy Countdown and found that 100% of the board worked within 250 miles of one another, and 40% of them were from Ohio!Boeing InvestorsLawsuit Against Boeing's Board Seeks Accountability for Safety FailuresBill AckmanAfter his wife is outed as having plagiarized (lightly?) in her dissertation, he posted on Wednesday a 4,200 word post defending his wife, detailing his personal trauma…And now, the part that only billionaires can do because the rest of us asshole poorsies don't rate…I reached out to a board member I knew at BI, and to its controlling shareholders, the co-ceos of KKR, and to Mathias Döpfner, the Chairman and CEO of Axel SpringerI reached out to Joe Bae because he is Co-CEO of KKRI reached out to Henry Kravis because he is KKR's representative on the board of Axel SpringerI called a board member of BI that I knew, but not well, on Saturday“After spending a lot of time over the past few weeks looking at and thinking about the definition of “plagiarism” (and some cited examples), I agree with you about it. Academia needs to narrow the definition.I made one request. I asked him to publicly disclose that Axel Springer had launched an investigation of the story, and he said he would have to get back to me on that request.Billionaire Bill Ackman Accuses The Walt Disney Company Of Leaking Shareholder Votes Amidst Nelson Peltz Proxy ... - That Park PlaceMeritocracyJ.M. Smucker's CEO says the family-run business is a 'meritocracy'Alex Edmans The anti-ESG, racist-veiled-as-meritocracy crowd noticed an ESG prof keeps saying “DEI” and “lies” in the same postsStrive puts him on a webinar called “DEI May Contain Lies” - Edmans seems to not know or acknowledge the fact that Strive votes explicitly against women on boards at a 2:1 rate versus average REGARDLESS OF PERFORMANCE (we have the data to show it)Elon Musk is lashing out at MacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos' ex, for donating billions to charities for women and minorities“Super rich ex-wives who hate their former spouse' should filed be listed among 'Reasons that Western Civilization died'”Texas is using Boeing's troubles to expand its war on DEI“Documents that Spirit relies on to substantiate its claim that a diverse workplace improves product quality.”“Produce all meeting minutes of Spirit's Global Diversity & Inclusion Council(s). Meeting minutes is defined to include any document that memorializes the agenda or discussion of any meetings held by these groups.Target to pull LGBTQ-themed items from some stores during Pride Month, Bloomberg News reportsMeta created an AI advisory council that's composed entirely of White menPat Collison, cofounder of StripeNat Friedman, ex GitHub CEOTobi Lutke, CEO of ShopifyCharlie Songhurst, angel investor and ex-MSFTTractor Supply's Customers Cheer as It Dumps ESG, Says Survey, Microsoft reportedly fires DEI team — becoming latest company to ditch ‘woke' policy, John Deere Cuts 'Woke' Programs, Moves Jobs to Mexico, Harley-Davidson Sparks Boycott Call for Going 'Totally Woke'Larry Ellison Will Control Paramount After Deal, Filing ShowsDavid Ellison looked like he was buying it, but filing shows Daddy Larry will actually control 77% of National Amusements, the controlling shareholder of Paramount, when the deal is completedTyson's finance chief is out of the job. The Tyson heir got the gig at 32, making him the youngest Fortune 500 CFOThe interim CFO Curt Calaway will now be the ACTUAL CFO, but I'm not sure he's the right fit because he only had 11 years experience as an auditor followed by 18 years experience in finance at Tyson.Matt Gaetz, Vivek, Elon, Tulsi Gabbard, cabinet appointmentsWhite menThe value of male influence on boards in the US:Small cap, a man's influence is worth 1.7x a woman (women occupy 28% boards)Mid cap, a man's influence is worth 1.7x a woman (women occupy 31% boards)Large cap, a man's influence is worth 1.6x a woman (women occupy 33% boards)Mega cap, a man's influence is worth 1.8x a woman (women occupy 36% boards)Bumble and Hinge Let Creeps See Your Exact Locationmen can now make the first move, and the company is now run by a man - men coming out on top at last!White men who are mistreated at work are more likely to notice and report harassment against coworkersAirline says it's testing a booking tool that lets women select seats away from menA Brief List of People Elon Musk Has Challenged to Combat and Then Chickened Out of Actually FightingWhy men get more credit than women for doing the same work, according to a business school professorAs a case in point, consider the experience of Joan Roughgarden. Joan transitioned from male to female during her tenure as a biology professor at Stanford University. When Roughgarden's colleagues perceived her as a man, they took her competence as a given. After her transition, though, Joan found she had “to establish competence to an extent that men never have to. [Men are] assumed to be competent until proven otherwise, whereas a woman is assumed to be incompetent until she proves otherwise,” she recalled. “I remember going on a drive with a man. He assumed I couldn't read a map.”Elon Musk Suggests That Government Should Be Replaced by Dudes With High TestosteroneProblems associated with artificially high testosterone levels in men include:low sperm counts, shrinking of the testicles and impotenceheart muscle damage and increased risk of heart attackprostate enlargement with difficulty urinatingliver diseaseacnefluid retention with swelling of the legs and feetweight gain, perhaps related in part to increased appetitehigh blood pressure and cholesterolinsomniaheadachesincreased muscle massincreased risk of blood clotsstunted growth in adolescentsuncharacteristically aggressive behavior (although not well studied or clearly proven)mood swings, euphoria, irritability, impaired judgment, delusions.MEN AS AN INVESTABLE ASSET CLASS?This isn't a joke - there are 69… yes, 69… US companies with zero women on the board and another 10 that have women with 0% influenceNathan's Famous hot dog board - 10 directors, 1 woman, 9 men… female influence on the board = 0% according to FFA dataZERO people of colorInsiders own 30% of the company (all white dudes), but the largest external manager GAMCO/Gabelli (14% of shares) PMs are all men that hold Nathan's - men holding men!Oglethorpe Power is my new favorite MANCOMPANY - the board:Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky says women founders say they can't go 'founder mode' like men and that it needs to changeHeadliniest of the YearDR: Elon Musk's $46 billion payday is 'not about the money,' Tesla chair saysDR: Google Helpless to Stop Its AI From Recommending Glue on PizzaDR: Jamie Dimon saysDR: ESG is Coming For Your Toilet Paper DRDR: X global affairs head Nick Pickles resignsMM: Anti-woke: A definitive list of woke and non-woke foods - New Zealand HeraldBeans = wokeBaked Beans = not wokePotato chips (salted, salt and vinegar) = not wokePotato chips (any other flavor) = wokeSpaghetti = wokeCanned spaghetti = wokeQuinoa (pronounced keen-wah) = wokeQuinoa (pronounced quin-oh-ah) = slightly less woke but still wokeMM: Cybertruck: Maine Man Alarmed When Everybody Mocks His Cybertruck, Flips Him Off MMThe Cybertruck faces another setback as it recalls more than 11,000 vehicles over its giant wiperMM: MeritocracyNASA Praises Boeing's Stranded Starliner for Managing Not to Explode While Docked to Space StationMM: Awesome:Police Warn Residents to Lock Down Houses as Dozens of Monkeys Escape Research FacilityWho Won the Year?DR:Claudia Sheinbaum Elected as Mexico's First Female Presidente.l.f. BeautyThe Shareholder Primacy podcast with Mike Levin and Ann LiptonShitheads (re: Robby Starbuck, et al)Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick, the first woman to lead Delaware's Court of ChanceryWOMEN'S BASKETBALL!!!!!!Anyone who wants free director data - we lifted the paywalls on freefloatanalytics.com, so you get 80,000 active directors globally, influence metrics, and four performance metrics for every single one. Suck it ISS.MM: Proxy votersFREE FLOAT ANALYTICS IS FREE for 80,000 current directors with some performance metricsOur clientsFrom the Gates' Foundation's asset manager to Fidelity, Free Float's clients get it ALL - historical data, knowledge maps, connectivity data that includes now non profit boards, we're working on lobbying data, diversity data, and all packaged with expert findings and ad hoc research directly from usDamionNever has he been more credibleCapitalismKnowing WHO runs the world is much more important than knowing WHAT runs the worldNon profits moving companiesWe worked with a half dozen non profits this year who needed data to influence companies - and we gave it to them, so much so we're starting a non profit of our own to donate data to and throughPredictionsWe'll start 2025 with a Predictions show and look back at lost year's predictions
This week: SAS SOS The enemy that most concerns Britain's elite military unit isn't the IRA, the Taliban or Isis, but a phalanx of lawyers armed with the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), writes Paul Wood in The Spectator. Many SAS soldiers now believe that if they kill a terrorist during an operation, they'll spend decades being hounded through the courts. Paul speaks to former SAS soldiers who say that stories of men being ‘dragged back to be screamed at in interview rooms' are ‘flying around the canteens now'. Soldiers feel like ‘the good guys have become the bad guys – and the bad guys are now the good guys'. This is hurting morale and may eventually hit recruitment. Paul joins the podcast to discuss further, alongside Colonel Richard Williams, a former SAS commanding officer in Iraq and Afghanistan. (01:36) Then: how much more punishment can Ukrainian city Odesa take? The Black Sea port of Odesa occupies a unique role in Ukrainian – and Soviet – history. Added significance has been thrust on it by the Russian invasion: both symbolically, as well as practically, given how central it is to grain exports. But while war weariness sets in for Ukrainians – and their allies – the battle for Odesa is ever more crucial; further deadly aerial attacks took place only days ago. In the magazine this week, journalist Peter Pomerantsev reviews a new book looking at the port city by Julian Evans. Undefeatable: Odesa in Love and War is part-history book, part-memoir exploring many of the human stories that make up the city. How has the conflict changed the people of Odesa? And for Ukrainians who grew up consuming Russian-speaking media and culture, did the war challenge their identity? Peter joins the podcast alongside the author of the Spectator's Ukraine newsletter, Svitlana Morenets. (18:24) And finally: do we secretly love a good film flop? ‘I've fallen out of love with cinemas,' declares long-standing (or should that be long-suffering?) film critic Chris Tookey in the magazine this week. He argues the experience isn't as good, and Hollywood is partly to blame. Perhaps films are getting worse? Some people love a good film flop though – the big-budget blockbuster disasters. Fellow film critic Tim Robey is one such person, and he explores his love of Hollywood flops in his new book Box Office Poison, out now. But how has the experience of cinema changed? And what's the worst film they've ever seen? Tim and Chris join the podcast. (32:58) Hosted by William Moore and Lara Prendergast. Produced by Oscar Edmondson and Patrick Gibbons.
This week: SAS SOS The enemy that most concerns Britain's elite military unit isn't the IRA, the Taliban or Isis, but a phalanx of lawyers armed with the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), writes Paul Wood in The Spectator. Many SAS soldiers now believe that if they kill a terrorist during an operation, they'll spend decades being hounded through the courts. Paul speaks to former SAS soldiers who say that stories of men being ‘dragged back to be screamed at in interview rooms' are ‘flying around the canteens now'. Soldiers feel like ‘the good guys have become the bad guys – and the bad guys are now the good guys'. This is hurting morale and may eventually hit recruitment. Paul joins the podcast to discuss further, alongside Colonel Richard Williams, a former SAS commanding officer in Iraq and Afghanistan. (01:36) Then: how much more punishment can Ukrainian city Odesa take? The Black Sea port of Odesa occupies a unique role in Ukrainian – and Soviet – history. Added significance has been thrust on it by the Russian invasion: both symbolically, as well as practically, given how central it is to grain exports. But while war weariness sets in for Ukrainians – and their allies – the battle for Odesa is ever more crucial; further deadly aerial attacks took place only days ago. In the magazine this week, journalist Peter Pomerantsev reviews a new book looking at the port city by Julian Evans. Undefeatable: Odesa in Love and War is part-history book, part-memoir exploring many of the human stories that make up the city. How has the conflict changed the people of Odesa? And for Ukrainians who grew up consuming Russian-speaking media and culture, did the war challenge their identity? Peter joins the podcast alongside the author of the Spectator's Ukraine newsletter, Svitlana Morenets. (18:24) And finally: do we secretly love a good film flop? ‘I've fallen out of love with cinemas,' declares long-standing (or should that be long-suffering?) film critic Chris Tookey in the magazine this week. He argues the experience isn't as good, and Hollywood is partly to blame. Perhaps films are getting worse? Some people love a good film flop though – the big-budget blockbuster disasters. Fellow film critic Tim Robey is one such person, and he explores his love of Hollywood flops in his new book Box Office Poison, out now. But how has the experience of cinema changed? And what's the worst film they've ever seen? Tim and Chris join the podcast. (32:58) Hosted by William Moore and Lara Prendergast. Produced by Oscar Edmondson and Patrick Gibbons.
As political rhetoric in the UK takes an alarming turn, Robert Jenrick's recent statements link the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) to British soldiers committing unlawful killings abroad. These claims have drawn fierce criticism, with experts warning that such accusations not only distort reality but also endanger military personnel in the field. In this latest episode of Double Jeopardy, Ken Macdonald and Tim Owen take a deeper look into the risks Jenrick's assertions pose, not just for the reputation of the UK's armed forces, but for international law and military operations. The conversation also touches on the broader debate about the role of the ECHR and whether Britain should distance itself from the convention altogether. The pair then shift focus to Naomi Campbell's charity, Fashion for Relief, which recently has come under intense scrutiny. The Charity Commission's report has revealed a startling financial mismanagement, where only a small fraction of donations reached the intended causes. With millions raised but minimal impact, Ken and Tim unravel the findings, raising important questions about accountability and transparency in the world of celebrity philanthropy. Follow us on X/Twitter: https://x.com/doubjeopardypodFollow us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/double-jeopardy-podcast/
2x Olympic Gold Medalist and 3x World Champion, Caster Semenya has made headlines since winning the 800m at the 2009 World Athletics Championships at the age of 18, yet the media (and many of her fellow athletes) wouldn't gracefully acknowledge her generational talent for what it was, but rather started accusing her of being a man. This was news to Caster, someone who was born a woman and grew up a woman her whole life. Given her muscular build, speed, deep voice, and color, Caster didn't look like what many believed a woman "should" look like. Wednesday is a landmark court case determining the future of women's track and field. For the last decade Caster has been fighting to compete without changing her natural body. The IIAF (formerly World Athletics) mandated that in order to compete she had to reduce her natural testosterone levels, which according to Caster, left her feeling "like the walking dead." To hear more of the backstory from Caster's perspective, check out our season 1 episode elevating Caster right before the Tokyo Olympics. This Wednesday, May 15th, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is examining Caster's appeal against regulations requiring female athletes with high testosterone levels to take medication. In our conversation Caster shares "Let's stop allowing people to give us a view or an opinion of how a woman should look like. You are born with your differences, I'm born with my differences...We need to celebrate one another." That is the world we are working towards with you, Caster.
A group of older Swiss women have won the first ever climate case victory in the European Court of Human Rights. The women, mostly in their 70s, said that their age and gender made them particularly vulnerable to the effects of heatwaves linked to climate change. But will it set a precedent? We'll hear a legal view.Also in the programme: We ask Hamas if they can account for Israeli hostages held in Gaza; and the parents of a school gunman are sentenced for manslaughter, Newshour speaks to the father of one of the boys killed. (Photo: Rosmarie Wyder-Walti and Anne Mahrer, of the Swiss womens group Senior Women for Climate Protection, attend the hearing of the court for the ruling in the climate case Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. Switzerland, at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg, France April 9, 2024. Credit: Reuters/Christian Hartmann
Recorded at the Battle of Ideas festival 2023 on Sunday 29 October at Church House, London. ORIGINAL INTRODUCTION Most people acknowledge that there is an issue with Britain's borders. The question is: who or what is to blame? For many, the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), and its courts in Strasbourg, has become the focus – either as the bulwark against anti-refugee sentiment, or the block on democratic process. With deportations being halted on the grounds of ‘human rights', one's view on membership of the ECHR has become shorthand for where you stand on the issue of refugees, asylum seekers and illegal migrants. Rows over the ECHR have been brewing for some time. In 2000, the Human Rights Act made the Convention an integral part of domestic law, that individuals could enforce in British courts. Since then, many, particularly on the Right, have questioned the wisdom of what they increasingly refer to as Labour's Human Rights Act. In recent years, the Conservative Party has been committed to reforming human rights by replacing the HRA with a British Bill of Rights. But no such legislation is forthcoming – and many have pointed out that, as long as Britain remains signed-up to the ECHR, a British Bill of Rights would be superfluous. Much like the European Union, the ECHR seems to have split the Tories. Some MPs hope to cut ties completely – nearly 70 Tory MPs, many from Red Wall seats, backed quitting the ECHR in a vote on a Private Member's Bill last year. Others – like Tom Tugendhat's Tory Reform Group – remain concerned about what a Brexit-style exit might do to the UK's international reputation. In the aftermath of the Second World War the European Convention on Human Rights was seen as a protection against the tyranny and oppression that some European nations had recently endured. Nowadays, those who support it stress the importance of human rights as setting a minimum standard which democracies should guarantee. Is the problem therefore simply one of European judicial overreach, or is it essentially about the very notion of ‘human rights' themselves? Are human rights and democratic, collective action doomed to forever be at loggerheads? With courts in Strasbourg and London ruling to impede government plans to stop small boats crossing the Channel, are human rights making popular government impossible? Or is the ECHR being scapegoated for inadequacies in our own backyard? SPEAKERS Steven Barrett barrister, Radcliffe Chambers; writer on law, Spectator Jamie Burton founder and chair, Just Fair; barrister (KC), Doughty Street Chambers; author Three Times Failed: why we need enforceable socio-economic rights Luke Gittos criminal lawyer; author, Human Rights – Illusory Freedom; director, Freedom Law Clinic John Oxley writer, New Statesman, Spectator,and UnHerd; consultant; barrister Angelica Walker-Werth writer, editor and programmes manager, Objective Standard Institute CHAIR Jon Holbrook barrister; writer, spiked, Critic, Conservative Woman
pWotD Episode 2481: Alexei Navalny Welcome to popular Wiki of the Day where we read the summary of a popular Wikipedia page every day.With 873,471 views on Friday, 16 February 2024 our article of the day is Alexei Navalny.Alexei Anatolyevich Navalny (Russian: Алексей Анатольевич Навальный, IPA: [ɐlʲɪkˈsʲej ɐnɐˈtolʲjɪvʲɪtɕ nɐˈvalʲnɨj]; 4 June 1976 – 16 February 2024) was a Russian opposition leader, lawyer, anti-corruption activist, and political prisoner. He organised anti-government demonstrations and ran for office to advocate reforms against corruption in Russia, and against President Vladimir Putin and his government. Navalny was a Russian Opposition Coordination Council member. He was the leader of the Russia of the Future party and founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK). He was recognised by Amnesty International as a prisoner of conscience, and was awarded the Sakharov Prize for his work on human rights. As of 2021, Navalny had more than six million YouTube subscribers; through his social media channels, he and his team have published material about corruption in Russia, organised political demonstrations and promoted his campaigns. In a 2011 radio interview, he described Russia's ruling party, United Russia, as a "party of crooks and thieves", which became a popular epithet. Navalny and the FBK have published investigations detailing alleged corruption by high-ranking Russian officials and their associates.In July 2013, Navalny received a suspended sentence for embezzlement, but was still allowed to run in the 2013 Moscow mayoral election and came in second, with 27% of the vote, outperforming expectations but losing to incumbent mayor Sergey Sobyanin, a Putin appointee. In December 2014, Navalny received another suspended sentence for embezzlement. Both of his criminal cases were widely considered to be politically motivated and intended to bar him from running in future elections. The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) later ruled that the cases violated Navalny's right to a fair trial, but the sentences were never overturned. In December 2016, Navalny launched his presidential campaign for the 2018 presidential election but was barred by Russia's Central Election Commission (CEC) after registering due to his prior criminal conviction; the Russian Supreme Court subsequently rejected his appeal. In 2017, the documentary He Is Not Dimon to You was released, accusing Dmitry Medvedev, the then prime minister and previous president, of corruption, leading to mass protests. In 2018, Navalny initiated Smart Voting, a tactical voting strategy intended to consolidate the votes of those who oppose United Russia, to the party of seats in elections. In August 2020, Navalny was hospitalised in serious condition after being poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent. He was medically evacuated to Berlin and discharged a month later. Navalny accused Putin of being responsible for his poisoning, and an investigation implicated agents from the Federal Security Service. In January 2021, Navalny returned to Russia and was immediately detained on accusations of violating parole conditions while he was hospitalised in Germany which were imposed as a result of his 2014 conviction. Following his arrest and the release of the documentary Putin's Palace, which accused Putin of corruption, mass protests were held across Russia. In February 2021, his suspended sentence was replaced with a prison sentence of over two and a half years' detention, and his organisations were later designated as extremist and liquidated, including the FBK. In March 2022, Navalny was sentenced to an additional nine years in prison after being found guilty of embezzlement and contempt of court in a new trial described as a sham by Amnesty International; his appeal was rejected and in June, he was transferred to a high-security prison. In August 2023, Navalny was sentenced to an additional 19 years in prison on extremism charges meaning he would be released in December 2038. Navalny commented that his sentence is as long as either his life or the life of the political regime in the country. In December 2023, Navalny went missing from prison for almost three weeks and then re-emerged in a new arctic circle jail in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. On 16 February 2024, the Russian prison service reported that Navalny had died at the age of 47.This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 01:25 UTC on Saturday, 17 February 2024.For the full current version of the article, see Alexei Navalny on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Mastodon at @wikioftheday@masto.ai.Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm Aditi Standard.
The Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) has called for an end to the discrimination against athlete Caster Semenya. Semenya has been frozen out of the sport for refusing to take medicine to lower her testosterone levels. The commission says there are still many discriminatory hurdles that intersex persons must overcome. This as the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) made a ruling on the Caster Semenya's case in July this year. The court found that World Athletics is bound by international law and may not discriminate without compelling reasons for doing so. For more on this Elvis Presslin spoke to the Acting Head of Legal Services at the Commission for Gender Equality, Tsietsi Shuping
The gang are joined by Sir Robert Buckland KC to talk about the UK's membership of the European Convention on Human Rights [ECHR]. There has been a renewed focus on the UK's membership of the ECHR amid claims it prevents Parliament from dealing with the small boats issue. Would leaving make it easier? How has the UK Government dealt with issues with the ECHR before? And what should Rishi Sunak now do to ensure the Rwanda policy is delivered? Find out with Sir Robert as Inside Whitehall helps you understand the terminology, history and what options the Government has in the coming weeks. Follow and comment on Twitter: @Whitehallpoduk
Melanie Jean Murcott is an Associate Professor at The Institute of Marine and Environmental Law and Doctor of Laws in Constitutional and Environmental Law and she joins Pippa to consider the first case of its kind that has been filed by six young Portuguese people against 32 governments, including all EU member states, the UK, Norway, Russia, Switzerland and Turkey at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
ON YOUR BIKE. I have given my good bike away. This marks a defining moment in my life. My good bike sat in the backyard for almost a year. That's the last time I was out on it. A year ago. It was dawning on me that my cycling days were over except for occassional sorties on a Greenway in some secluded place. But I was reluctant to face up to that. It seemed to me that as long as I held on to my good bike I held on to the possibility of venturing forth on it. Once it was gone that possibility was gone also. So I hung on. And on. And on. Onus on Irish government to protect GFAHuman rights abuses and inequality were at the core of the Unionist Stormont Regime. Discrimination in employment and housing, the gerrymandering of electoral boundaries under the Unionist One Party state, were embedded in the DNA of Britain's colonial outpost in Ireland.Consequently, when the Good Friday Agreement came to be negotiated the issues of equality and human rights were central to its provisions. Under these there was to be a Bill of Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) was to be incorporated into the law of the North. However, 25 years later there is still no Bill of Rights and the British Tory government has repeatedly said that it intends to get rid of the Human Rights Act which reflects many of the rights provisions made in the GFA.
In what has been called the “Swiss grannies” case, four women all aged 74, are asking the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to declare insufficient climate action by the Swiss authorities is violating their human rights. Ireland has decided to oppose this legal challenge in the ECHR and has sent a team over to appeal to the court that this ruling is beyond the court's scope to dictate national climate policy To explain this further Sean was joined by Clodagh Daly, manager of the Centre for Environmental Justice at Community Law and Mediation (CLM).
In what has been called the “Swiss grannies” case, four women all aged 74, are asking the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to declare insufficient climate action by the Swiss authorities is violating their human rights. Ireland has decided to oppose this legal challenge in the ECHR and has sent a team over to appeal to the court that this ruling is beyond the court's scope to dictate national climate policy To explain this further Sean was joined by Clodagh Daly, manager of the Centre for Environmental Justice at Community Law and Mediation (CLM).
This week on A Podcast About Catholic Things, Eric (The Ambassador of Common Sense) and Dan (The Ambassador of Nonsense) discuss the crisis in Ukraine and Russia and how it ties in with Fatima--including Pope Francis' recent commitment to consecrating Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. This is big news on a big subject--but you'll hear a discussion in this podcast that you won't hear anywhere else. In current events we continue our discussion of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. There's an eruption in Indonesia. Poland gives the finger to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). Israelis limit family reunions. Wild fires in South Korea. Earthquake in Japan. North Korea opens nuclear tunnels. Small asteroid explodes over Arctic Ocean. YouTube blocks Russian propaganda--Putin blocks non-Russian propaganda. Iran launches missiles at Iraq. Ethiopia deals with police brutality and Washington DC deals with serial killer. Israel is Ddos'ed. In the world of nonsense, Democrats eliminate annual clock setting. British drinkers upset by Guinness abuse. Ghost on camera. Dan doesn't get pinched for St. Patrick's Day. Saint of the week: Saint Aidan of FernVIEW ON APPLE PODCASTS VIEW ON GOOGLE PODCASTS VIEW ON AMAZON VIEW ON AUDIBLE VIEW ON CASTBOX VIEW ON PODCASTADDICT VIEW ON STITCHER VIEW ON BITCHUTE VIEW ON RUMBLE VIEW ON TUNE-IN VISIT US ON FACEBOOK
Welcome to the latest edition of 'The Week According To . . ' and we have the irrepressible Abi Roberts back with us as we look at what has caught her eye or rattled her cage in this weeks news, articles and media. Up for discussion this episode... Pride month & LGBTQBS - What is Cisgender? Is it offensive? and where did it come from? - 'We are sacrificing our children on the altar of a brutal, Far-Left ideology' Powerful piece by Jordan Peterson Specialist Rape Courts - Specialist courts are being set up to boost the number and speed of rape cases going to trial, with figures showing that the lowest charging rate of all offences continues to be for rape, with just 1.3 per cent of 67,125 offences recorded by police in 2021 leading to a prosecution. Immigration invasion - After the Rwanda flight farce, Downing Street does not rule out withdrawing from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) after last-minute interventions by the Court of Human Rights blocked the plane, which was stood ready to depart on a Ministry of Defence runway, in the final hour before it was scheduled to take off. - Around 400 migrants arrive in Dover after crossing the Channel in small boats just hours before the first flight to Rwanda was supposed to take off with this week set to be one of 2022's busiest yet for crossings. - People arriving in UK on small boats to be electronically tagged but Human Rights campaigners and lefty lawyers say ‘appalling' pilot scheme treats those fleeing conflict and persecution as criminals. Covid Vaccines - The US has approved a Covid vaccine for its youngest age group yet to receive experimental shots in a decision expected to be followed worldwide. Boris in Ukraine - Tory MPs have accused Boris Johnson of snubbing the North for another trip to Kyiv, just days before a crucial by-election. He met with President Volodymyr Zelensky and offered a major training programme for his forces. Julian Assange - Family members of Julian Assange have promised to fight the UK's decision to extradite him to the United States after the UK government ordered the extradition of WikiLeaks founder to the US to face spying charges. Abi Roberts is a British stand-up comedian, writer and commentator. Abi became a professional stand-up in 2012, and since then has played some of the biggest clubs across the UK, and had several sold-out shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. She became a comedian because she wanted to write her own material and have the freedom to express her worldview – and make thousands of people laugh at the absurdity and wonder of life. Abi does not worship at ‘The Church of Woke'! If you ask her how she identifies or what her gender pronouns are, she would give you this answer: “I'm a straight female who's flattened a lot of grass. I spent much of my university days behind a club called Cinderella's with a cone of chips in one hand and a pint of Snakebite and Black in the other. For balance. I once dabbled in Lesbiana but couldn't fully commit because, like a London cab driver, I wouldn't go south of the river.” Abi's stand up show Anglichanka, which was about living and studying in Russia, gained her several 5 star rave reviews and the show toured the UK. She was the first comedian to do shows in Moscow in both English and Russian, as Abi explains “My father was a spy… sorry, diplomat, so I went to the Soviet Union as a kid and then in the early 1990s I studied opera at the Moscow Conservatoire. Over the years, I've met many people who have been persecuted by the Soviet regime, including Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, so I have an inbuilt hatred of all authoritarian bastards who encourage denouncement and punish freedom of speech.” She has appeared as a guest comedian on BBC Radio 4's Midweek, Saturday Live and BBC Radio Scotland's The Janice Forsyth Show, and ITV's Good Morning Britain, debating mandatory vaccine passports opposite Edwina Currie. As a writer, Abi has written for several publications including Spiked and The Times. Abi is a regular commentator on GB News, You can see her on Tonight Live with Dan Wootton and Mark Dolan and she also appears regularly on Andrew Doyle's Free Speech Nation as well as Nana Akua's weekend Debate show on GB News every Friday from 4-6pm. Twice monthly she joins Ann Widdecombe and Emma Webb in Widdecombe Webb & Woberts streamed LIVE on the New Culture Forum YouTube channel and also contributes regularly on Talk Radio & Times Radio. Follow and support Abi at the following links Website: https://abiroberts.com/ GETTR: https://gettr.com/user/abiroberts Substack: http://abiroberts.substack.com/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/abirober....tscomedy?utm_medium= YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/AbiRobertsComedyDiva Originally broadcast as a live news discussion 18.6.22 *Special thanks to Bosch Fawstin for recording our intro/outro on this podcast. Check out his art https://theboschfawstinstore.blogspot.com/ and follow him on GETTR https://gettr.com/user/BoschFawstin To sign up for our weekly email, find our social media, podcasts, video, livestreaming platforms and more go to https://heartsofoak.org/connect/ Please like, subscribe & share! Links to stories discussed this episode What is cisgender? https://metro.co.uk/2022/06/17/pride-what-is-cisgender-where-is-the-word-from-and-is-it-offensive-2-16845926/ Jordan Peterson: We are sacrificing our children http://web.archive.org/web/20220618045625/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/06/16/sacrificing-children-altar-brutal-far-left-ideology/ Specialist rape courts https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10921439/Specialist-rape-courts-set-boost-speed-quantity-cases-going-trial.html Rwanda flight cancelled https://news.sky.com/story/first-deportation-flight-to-rwanda-halted-after-last-minute-legal-appeals-home-office-confirms-12634130 Rwanda deportations https://news.sky.com/story/rwanda-migrant-policy-has-not-been-ruled-unlawful-says-priti-patel-after-court-halts-flight-12634385 400 migrants arrive in Dover https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10914915/First-Rwanda-flight-doesnt-deter-migrants-100-arrive-Dover.html People arriving in small boats to be electronically tagged https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jun/18/people-arriving-in-uk-on-small-boats-to-be-electronically-tagged Covid vaccine for its youngest age group https://twitter.com/theheraldsun/status/1538016161526206464?s=20&t=tb04El9i4CJR-zSkc0bKKg Tory MPs furious at Boris https://metro.co.uk/2022/06/18/tory-mps-anger-after-boris-johnson-snubs-red-wall-for-kyiv-16850048/ Julian Assange https://www.euronews.com/2022/06/17/julian-assange-uk-government-orders-extradition-of-wikileaks-founder-to-us
Anyone surprised? The deportation of Channel migrants to Rwanda was BLOCKED last night following an intervention by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). Unless we LEAVE this activist interfering body we must accept we cannot control our borders - the point of Brexit! Please help support our work and Buy Me A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/DavidVanceV or support us via https://donorbox.org/let-free-speech-prevail Just Scan the QR Code Be part of the Community with David https://thedavidvance.locals.com Gettr: https://gettr.com/user/davidvance BrandNewTube: https://brandnewtube.com/@TheDavidVanceChannel Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/DavidVancePodcast Telegram: @davidvance1 A Tangled Web: https://www.atangledweb.org Also try my second channel with ilana Mercer Hard Truth Podcast: https://HardTruthWithDavidVanceAndIlanaMercer.Podbean.com
This week on A Podcast About Catholic Things, Eric (The Ambassador of Common Sense) and Dan (The Ambassador of Nonsense) discuss the crisis in Ukraine and Russia and how it ties in with Fatima--including Pope Francis' recent commitment to consecrating Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. This is big news on a big subject--but you'll hear a discussion in this podcast that you won't hear anywhere else. In current events we continue our discussion of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. There's an eruption in Indonesia. Poland gives the finger to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). Israelis limit family reunions. Wild fires in South Korea. Earthquake in Japan. North Korea opens nuclear tunnels. Small asteroid explodes over Arctic Ocean. YouTube blocks Russian propaganda--Putin blocks non-Russian propaganda. Iran launches missiles at Iraq. Ethiopia deals with police brutality and Washington DC deals with serial killer. Israel is Ddos'ed. In the world of nonsense, Democrats eliminate annual clock setting. British drinkers upset by Guinness abuse. Ghost on camera. Dan doesn't get pinched for St. Patrick's Day. Saint of the week: Saint Aidan of Fern
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has issued an interim measure telling Russia to suspend the dissolution of the International Memorial Society and the Memorial Human Rights Center, Interfax reported on Wednesday, December 29. Original Article: https://meduza.io/en/news/2021/12/29/echr-tells-russian-to-suspend-dissolution-of-memorial-pending-review-of-claim-over-foreign-agent-laws
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that Russia is to pay compensation to several domestic violence victims over the authorities' failure to respond to their cases. Original Article: https://meduza.io/en/news/2021/12/14/echr-orders-russia-to-pay-compensation-to-domestic-violence-victim-whose-husband-cut-off-her-hands
The Vatican enjoys sovereign immunity that protects it from sexual-abuse lawsuits in local courts, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled, after a case was put forward by 24 people who claim to be victims. On Tuesday, the top court dismissed a case submitted by two dozen people who claim to be survivors of child sexual abuse at the hands of the Catholic clergy from France, Belgium and the Netherlands. The alleged survivors had initially filed a class action in the Ghent Court of First Instance against the Holy See and several high figures in the clergy in 2011, demanding €10,000 ($11,600) in compensation for each victim because of the Church's “policy of silence on the issue of sexual abuse.” The lawsuit complained “of the structurally deficient way in which the Church had dealt with the known problem of sexual abuse within it.” Just over two years later, however, the Ghent Court said that it did not have jurisdiction over the Holy See, prompting the individuals to escalate their case to the top European court. The ECHR on Tuesday sided with the Belgian court in a 6-1 ruling, which concluded that it agreed with its findings that the Holy See enjoyed “diplomatic immunity” and “was recognized internationally as having the common attributes of a foreign sovereign, with the same rights and obligations as a state.” Last week, a bombshell missive unveiled that up to 330,000 children were sexually abused by clergy and lay members of France's Catholic Church over a period of seven decades. Between 2,900 to 3,200 priests and clergy were accused of assault during this time. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/global-reportage/support
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that Russia must not deport migrant rights activist Valentina Chupik to Uzbekistan until at least October 17. Chupik, who is an Uzbek citizen, has been in custody at an immigration detention center at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport since September 25. Original Article: https://meduza.io/en/news/2021/10/01/echr-suspends-human-rights-activist-s-deportation-from-russia
Russia was responsible for the poisoning and assassination of ex-FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled on Tuesday, September 21. Litvinenko fled Russia with his family and was granted asylum in the United Kingdom in 2001. He died of polonium poisoning in London in 2006. Ten years later, a public inquiry in the UK concluded that Litvinenko was murdered by two of his acquaintances: former Russian Secret Service officer Andrey Lugovoy -- who is now a State Duma lawmaker -- and businessman Dmitry Kovtun. Both the suspects, as well a the Russian authorities, have consistently denied any involvement in Litvinenko's killing. Original Article: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2021/09/21/a-strong-prima-facie-case
European appeasement policies towards Turkey and other “basically autocratic regimes” has resulted in the Turkish government and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan believing that whatever they do, no substantial consequences will come from the Council of Europe or the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), Dilek Kurban, fellow and lecturer at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, told Ahval in an interview. In the inaugural episode of Jumping Off, the jumping off point for Ahval’s Zeynep Dicle is Kurban’s book, Limits of Supranational Justice: The European Court of Human Rights and Turkey's Kurdish Conflict. The hour-long talk starts with the tragic story of Taybet İnan, an elderly Kurdish woman who in 2015 was killed by artillery fire from a Turkish armoured vehicle in Silopi, Şırnak, a border town in the southeast that has had a key importance for Turkey’s Kurds.
European appeasement policies towards Turkey and other “basically autocratic regimes” has resulted in the Turkish government and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan believing that whatever they do, no substantial consequences will come from the Council of Europe or the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), Dilek Kurban, fellow and lecturer at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, told Ahval in an interview. In the inaugural episode of Jumping Off, the jumping off point for Ahval’s Zeynep Dicle is Kurban’s book, Limits of Supranational Justice: The European Court of Human Rights and Turkey's Kurdish Conflict. The hour-long talk starts with the tragic story of Taybet İnan, an elderly Kurdish woman who in 2015 was killed by artillery fire from a Turkish armoured vehicle in Silopi, Şırnak, a border town in the southeast that has had a key importance for Turkey’s Kurds.
Ahmet Altan, the Turkish writer and journalist imprisoned on charges of supporting the failed coup attempt in July 2016, has been released from prison. On Wednesday, Turkey’ Court of Cassation ordered Althan released from prison, reversing the ruling that he “evoked” the attempted coup and that he be released based on time served. This decision came only one day after the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ordered he be released after it found that he was held on legally dubious grounds in the first place. While advocates for Turkish civil society cheered his release, some were more cautious. Orhan Kemal Cengiz, a human rights lawyer in Turkey, told Ahval that he was happy to see Altan go home to his family, he had “mixed feelings” about the overall situation. “On the one hand, I am very happy because him [Altan] being released as a result of the decision of the ECHR, but on the other I am really angry with the court,” Cengiz said to Ahval News in a recent podcast.
South African athlete Caster Semenya is bringing her legal fight to participate in women's sports to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), her latest bid to "put an end to the longstanding human rights violations by World Athletics against women athletes." The lawsuit from the two-time Olympic champion challenges restrictions on testosterone levels in female athletes that prevents certain women from participating in international sports competitions.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has spoken about his desire to turn over a new leaf with Europe, but that might not happen without repairing the damage he’s done to Turkish democracy. Last November was when Erdogan first showed any openness to improving relations with the European Union (E.U), stating “We see ourselves nowhere else but in Europe.” In a phone call with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on January 10, the two discussed improving relations in what the E.U President called a “good exchange.” Among the topics covered according to a readout from Erdogan’s office was a discussion on how to move forward on Turkey’s stalled bid to join the bloc. Behind any negotiations about improving relations is deep disagreements over the state of Turkish democracy after two decades under Erdogan. In December, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that Turkey must release opposition leader Selahattin Demirtas from custody over what it considered politically-motivated terrorism charges. A year earlier, the ECHR also ordered the release of civil society activist Osman Kavala from custody on similar grounds, but Erdogan has refused in both cases to respect either ruling. Kati Piri, a member of the European Parliament from the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D), does not believe that Erdogan should be obliged to his “new leaf” if that means ignoring his continued erosion of human rights in Turkey. “I do not understand how Ankara thinks it will reset the agenda with the European Union,” Piri tol Ahval in a recent podcast interview. “They know what they have to do in order to reset relations, but I haven’t seen any of that seriously examined in Turkey.”
When the HRA was passed in 1998, few could have imagined its impact on UK Politics. It seemed to merely confirm the rights that had already existed - those written into the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). Yet in giving UK citizens to the right to use UK courts to seek redress of grievance, legal avenues to claim rights came closer to the people. No longer would they have to travel to Strasbourg to fight for their rights in the European Court of Human Rights (although they still could), the guarantor of the ECHR. Yet the backlash against a so-called rights culture has been severe. Successive Conservative governments have promised to either scrap or “update”, to replace it with a bill of rights or kill it altogether. Despite the assault on the HRA, it remains in place, for now.
In our latest podcast we discuss the Coronavirus Bill, which no doubt will be on the statute book very soon, and the concept of false imprisonment. False imprisonment and Coronavirus at first blush may seem to have little in common other than we all wish no doubt that we had not heard of either, but with the prospect of a “lockdown” bear with us. There is a demand, if not a requirement, for our civil liberties to be curtailed so as to control the spread of the virus. We are being told to stay indoors and to keep our distance from our neighbours. So far these instructions have been polite requests to do as we are being asked. The implicit underlying message being that if we do not do as we are asked then the State will have to get tougher. Government has to tread wearily because it can tell us what to do but does it have the legal ability to insist we do so? The Coronavirus Bill contains provisions under clause 50 and schedule 21 to prohibit and restrict meetings and gatherings, and to close premises or restrict access, but that is as far as it goes. Clause 49 and schedule 20 however, gives the power to remove and detain a person who is believed to be infected. These provisions have to reflect the law which was recently analysed by the Supreme Court in R (on the application of Jalloh) v. Secretary of State for the Home Department [2020] UKSC 4. The case is highly relevant because it can be argued that Parliament cannot simply tell people to lock themselves up. Government has to have very specific powers granted to it by Parliament to curtain a person’s liberty. The case required the Supreme Court to consider the meaning of imprisonment at common law and whether this should be aligned with the concept of deprivation of liberty under the European Convention on Human Rights (“ECHR”). The Claimant in Jalloh, who was apparently a Liberian national, had been released from immigration detention on bail. He was subsequently served a notice of restriction with conditions which included a curfew. Further he was warned that if he failed to observe the curfew he was liable to a fine or imprisonment. It later transpired that the Home Secretary did not have the power to impose the curfew this way. The High Court ordered the curfew to be lifted and the Home Secretary accepted it was unlawful. The claimant sought damages for unlawful imprisonment. In the High Court he was awarded £4000 (he had been subject to the curfew for 891 days). The Home Office argued that compensation was not payable because the curfew albeit unlawful did not amount to unlawful imprisonment, and that if it did it should be modified as a common law concept so as to be aligned with the more demanding concept of deprivation of liberty under article 5 ECHR. The Supreme Court did not accept the Home Secretary’s arguments. The essence of unlawful imprisonment is being made to stay in a particular place by another person. The methodology can be varied and include physical barriers, the placement of guards, the threats of force or legal action. The claimant was subject to a curfew. He had to stay indoors and was warned what would happen if he did not obey. This was simply detention or confinement. As for Article 5 ECHR it was possible for there to be imprisonment at common law without a deprivation of liberty. The latter depends on a number of factors: type, duration and effects of confinement. To align would be a retrograde step because it would restrict the classic understanding of imprisonment at common law to something far more nuanced and inhibit the citizen’s right to not be unlawfully imprisoned by the State. Getting back to the unique circumstances of Coronavirus, the Bill attempts to recognise that there may be particular circumstances where a citizen has not committed a crime but is potentially infected, and as such presents risk to others, and has to be detained. That is very different to telling the general public to stay indoors. Voluntary compliance on the part of the public is one thing, but being ordered to stay indoors and failing to do so would lead to a sanction is another. Parliament has to be very clear in what powers it gives Government and it in turn has to be very clear in how they are exercised because the Jalloh case reminds us that prison bars are not necessary for there to be false imprisonment.
When you think of false imprisonment you imagine being wrongly held in a prison, but the recent Supreme Court case of R (on the application of Jalloh) v. Secretary of State for the Home Department [2020] UKSC 4 demonstrates that the concept is far more nuanced. The appeal was concerned about the law of damages for false imprisonment. It required the Supreme Court to consider the meaning of imprisonment at common law and whether this should be aligned with the concept of deprivation of liberty under the European Covention on Human Rights (“ECHR”). The Claimant who was apparently a Liberian national had been released from immigration detention on bail. He was subsequently served a notice of restriction with conditions which contained restrictions that included a curfew. Further he was warned that if he failed to observe the curfew he was liable to a fine or imprisonment. It later transpired that the Home Secretary did not have the power to impose the curfew this way. The High Court ordered the curfew to be lifted and the Home Secretary accepted it was unlawful. The claimant sought damages for unlawful imprisonment. In the High Court he was awarded £4000 (he had been subject to the curfew for 891 days). The Home Office argued that compensation was not payable because the curfew albeit unlawful did not amount to unlawful imprisonment, and that if it did it should be modified as a common law Concept so as to be aligned with the more demanding concept of deprivation of liberty under article 5 ECHR. The Supreme Court did not accept the Home Secretary’s arguments. The essence of unlawful imprisonment is being made to stay in a particular place by another person. The methodology can be varied and include physical barriers, the placement of guards, the threats of force or legal action. The claimant was subject to a curfew. He had to stay indoors and was warned what would happen if he did not obey. This was simply detention or confinement. As for Article 5 it was possible for there to be imprisonment at common law without a deprivation of liberty. The latter depends on a number of factors: type, duration and effects of confinement. To align would be a retrograde step because it would restrict the classic understanding of imprisonment at common law to something far more nuanced, and inhibit the citizen’s right not be unlawfully imprisoned by the State.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled unanimously on Thursday that Spain’s deportation of two sub-Saharan migrants, who jumped the border fence separating Morocco from the Spanish exclave city of Melilla in 2014, with around 70 others, did not violate the European Convention on Human Rights. Spain is failing to address inequality, and some policies are keeping people in poverty by design. That’s according to Philip Alston, the United Nations’ special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. After spending 12 days in Spain, Alston gave a press conference on Friday that described a country where many people have been left behind by the post-crisis recovery and where the social-protection system “is broken.” UK News has been dominated by the dreadful aftermath of Storm Dennis and the suicide of Love Island presenter Caroline Flack. The Brits Awards then dominated press and TV coverage begging the question as to what really is of importance on the TV screens
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled unanimously on Thursday that Spain’s deportation of two sub-Saharan migrants, who jumped the border fence separating Morocco from the Spanish exclave city of Melilla in 2014, with around 70 others, did not violate the European Convention on Human Rights. Spain is failing to address inequality, and some policies are keeping people in poverty by design. That’s according to Philip Alston, the United Nations’ special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. After spending 12 days in Spain, Alston gave a press conference on Friday that described a country where many people have been left behind by the post-crisis recovery and where the social-protection system “is broken.” UK News has been dominated by the dreadful aftermath of Storm Dennis and the suicide of Love Island presenter Caroline Flack. The Brits Awards then dominated press and TV coverage begging the question as to what really is of importance on the TV screens
As the government’s plan to “update” human rights laws gather pace, and the calls to leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) re-emerge from the Brexit fog, this episode explores the too little known story of how the ECHR helps keep illiberalism at bay throughout Europe. I talk to Philip Leach and Joanna Evans from the amazing European Human Rights Advocacy Centre about their work in Eastern Europe standing up against truly horrific human rights abuses. This should be required listening for MPs who blithely say the UK should abandon the human rights system it was so instrumental in creating. More info at patreon.com/betterhuman
Andrew Guile and Luke Cowles discuss the case of Hammerton in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). On 17th March 2016 the European Court of Human Rights published the long awaited decision in the above case where GN Law represented the applicant.https://www.gnlaw.co.uk/gn_law_media/news/2016/echr_award_damages_for_judicial_error
This conference, organised by Cambridge Family Law together with the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL) and the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Family Law, explored a range of issues and challenges surrounding the law and practice of national and international surrogacy from a practical perspective. Practitioners, lawmakers, academics and other participants will discuss the legal consequences of the rise in surrogacy arrangements and, in particular, reproductive tourism. For more information about the conference see: https://www.family.law.cam.ac.uk/international-surrogacy-forum-2019 This recording is from Part I – The Prohibitive Approach, with Caroline Mécary (Avocate aux barreaux de Paris et du Québec, Paris/France) as commentator. Caroline Mecary is an attorney, member of the Bar of Paris since 1991. In 1993, she established her own law firm devoted to all sorts of families’ rights. She was the first French attorney to defend homoparental families. In this field, she obtained some great success before both national and international courts such as the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). Hence, she allowed a lesbian to have the right to adopt (ECHR, 22 January 2008, E.B c/ France). She enabled children resulting for a surrogacy to have their birth certificate transcribed by the French registry office (ECHR, 21 July 2016, Foulon & Bouvet c/ France; ECHR, 19 July 2017, Laborie c/ France). She also obtained the right for a same-sex couple to enter in a civil partnership (ECHR, 7 November 2013, Vallianatos c/ Greece). This entry provides an audio source for iTunes.
This conference, organised by Cambridge Family Law together with the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL) and the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Family Law, explored a range of issues and challenges surrounding the law and practice of national and international surrogacy from a practical perspective. Practitioners, lawmakers, academics and other participants will discuss the legal consequences of the rise in surrogacy arrangements and, in particular, reproductive tourism. For more information about the conference see: https://www.family.law.cam.ac.uk/international-surrogacy-forum-2019 This recording is from Part I – The Prohibitive Approach, with Caroline Mécary (Avocate aux barreaux de Paris et du Québec, Paris/France) as commentator. Caroline Mecary is an attorney, member of the Bar of Paris since 1991. In 1993, she established her own law firm devoted to all sorts of families’ rights. She was the first French attorney to defend homoparental families. In this field, she obtained some great success before both national and international courts such as the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). Hence, she allowed a lesbian to have the right to adopt (ECHR, 22 January 2008, E.B c/ France). She enabled children resulting for a surrogacy to have their birth certificate transcribed by the French registry office (ECHR, 21 July 2016, Foulon & Bouvet c/ France; ECHR, 19 July 2017, Laborie c/ France). She also obtained the right for a same-sex couple to enter in a civil partnership (ECHR, 7 November 2013, Vallianatos c/ Greece). This entry provides an audio source for iTunes.
This conference, organised by Cambridge Family Law together with the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL) and the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Family Law, explored a range of issues and challenges surrounding the law and practice of national and international surrogacy from a practical perspective. Practitioners, lawmakers, academics and other participants will discuss the legal consequences of the rise in surrogacy arrangements and, in particular, reproductive tourism. For more information about the conference see: https://www.family.law.cam.ac.uk/international-surrogacy-forum-2019 This recording is from Part I – The Prohibitive Approach, with Caroline Mécary (Avocate aux barreaux de Paris et du Québec, Paris/France) as commentator. Caroline Mecary is an attorney, member of the Bar of Paris since 1991. In 1993, she established her own law firm devoted to all sorts of families’ rights. She was the first French attorney to defend homoparental families. In this field, she obtained some great success before both national and international courts such as the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). Hence, she allowed a lesbian to have the right to adopt (ECHR, 22 January 2008, E.B c/ France). She enabled children resulting for a surrogacy to have their birth certificate transcribed by the French registry office (ECHR, 21 July 2016, Foulon & Bouvet c/ France; ECHR, 19 July 2017, Laborie c/ France). She also obtained the right for a same-sex couple to enter in a civil partnership (ECHR, 7 November 2013, Vallianatos c/ Greece). This entry provides an audio source for iTunes.
This conference, organised by Cambridge Family Law together with the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL) and the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Family Law, explored a range of issues and challenges surrounding the law and practice of national and international surrogacy from a practical perspective. Practitioners, lawmakers, academics and other participants will discuss the legal consequences of the rise in surrogacy arrangements and, in particular, reproductive tourism. For more information about the conference see: https://www.family.law.cam.ac.uk/international-surrogacy-forum-2019 This recording is from Part I – The Prohibitive Approach, with Caroline Mécary (Avocate aux barreaux de Paris et du Québec, Paris/France) as commentator. Caroline Mecary is an attorney, member of the Bar of Paris since 1991. In 1993, she established her own law firm devoted to all sorts of families’ rights. She was the first French attorney to defend homoparental families. In this field, she obtained some great success before both national and international courts such as the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). Hence, she allowed a lesbian to have the right to adopt (ECHR, 22 January 2008, E.B c/ France). She enabled children resulting for a surrogacy to have their birth certificate transcribed by the French registry office (ECHR, 21 July 2016, Foulon & Bouvet c/ France; ECHR, 19 July 2017, Laborie c/ France). She also obtained the right for a same-sex couple to enter in a civil partnership (ECHR, 7 November 2013, Vallianatos c/ Greece).
This conference, organised by Cambridge Family Law together with the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL) and the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Family Law, explored a range of issues and challenges surrounding the law and practice of national and international surrogacy from a practical perspective. Practitioners, lawmakers, academics and other participants will discuss the legal consequences of the rise in surrogacy arrangements and, in particular, reproductive tourism. For more information about the conference see: https://www.family.law.cam.ac.uk/international-surrogacy-forum-2019 This recording is from Part I – The Prohibitive Approach, with Caroline Mécary (Avocate aux barreaux de Paris et du Québec, Paris/France) as commentator. Caroline Mecary is an attorney, member of the Bar of Paris since 1991. In 1993, she established her own law firm devoted to all sorts of families’ rights. She was the first French attorney to defend homoparental families. In this field, she obtained some great success before both national and international courts such as the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). Hence, she allowed a lesbian to have the right to adopt (ECHR, 22 January 2008, E.B c/ France). She enabled children resulting for a surrogacy to have their birth certificate transcribed by the French registry office (ECHR, 21 July 2016, Foulon & Bouvet c/ France; ECHR, 19 July 2017, Laborie c/ France). She also obtained the right for a same-sex couple to enter in a civil partnership (ECHR, 7 November 2013, Vallianatos c/ Greece).
This conference, organised by Cambridge Family Law together with the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL) and the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Family Law, explored a range of issues and challenges surrounding the law and practice of national and international surrogacy from a practical perspective. Practitioners, lawmakers, academics and other participants will discuss the legal consequences of the rise in surrogacy arrangements and, in particular, reproductive tourism. For more information about the conference see: https://www.family.law.cam.ac.uk/international-surrogacy-forum-2019 This recording is from Part I – The Prohibitive Approach, with Caroline Mécary (Avocate aux barreaux de Paris et du Québec, Paris/France) as commentator. Caroline Mecary is an attorney, member of the Bar of Paris since 1991. In 1993, she established her own law firm devoted to all sorts of families’ rights. She was the first French attorney to defend homoparental families. In this field, she obtained some great success before both national and international courts such as the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). Hence, she allowed a lesbian to have the right to adopt (ECHR, 22 January 2008, E.B c/ France). She enabled children resulting for a surrogacy to have their birth certificate transcribed by the French registry office (ECHR, 21 July 2016, Foulon & Bouvet c/ France; ECHR, 19 July 2017, Laborie c/ France). She also obtained the right for a same-sex couple to enter in a civil partnership (ECHR, 7 November 2013, Vallianatos c/ Greece).
This conference, organised by Cambridge Family Law together with the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL) and the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Family Law, explored a range of issues and challenges surrounding the law and practice of national and international surrogacy from a practical perspective. Practitioners, lawmakers, academics and other participants will discuss the legal consequences of the rise in surrogacy arrangements and, in particular, reproductive tourism. For more information about the conference see: https://www.family.law.cam.ac.uk/international-surrogacy-forum-2019 This recording is from Part I – The Prohibitive Approach, with Caroline Mécary (Avocate aux barreaux de Paris et du Québec, Paris/France) as commentator. Caroline Mecary is an attorney, member of the Bar of Paris since 1991. In 1993, she established her own law firm devoted to all sorts of families’ rights. She was the first French attorney to defend homoparental families. In this field, she obtained some great success before both national and international courts such as the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). Hence, she allowed a lesbian to have the right to adopt (ECHR, 22 January 2008, E.B c/ France). She enabled children resulting for a surrogacy to have their birth certificate transcribed by the French registry office (ECHR, 21 July 2016, Foulon & Bouvet c/ France; ECHR, 19 July 2017, Laborie c/ France). She also obtained the right for a same-sex couple to enter in a civil partnership (ECHR, 7 November 2013, Vallianatos c/ Greece).
This conference, organised by Cambridge Family Law together with the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL) and the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Family Law, explored a range of issues and challenges surrounding the law and practice of national and international surrogacy from a practical perspective. Practitioners, lawmakers, academics and other participants will discuss the legal consequences of the rise in surrogacy arrangements and, in particular, reproductive tourism. For more information about the conference see: https://www.family.law.cam.ac.uk/international-surrogacy-forum-2019 This recording is from Part I – The Prohibitive Approach, with Caroline Mécary (Avocate aux barreaux de Paris et du Québec, Paris/France) as commentator. Caroline Mecary is an attorney, member of the Bar of Paris since 1991. In 1993, she established her own law firm devoted to all sorts of families’ rights. She was the first French attorney to defend homoparental families. In this field, she obtained some great success before both national and international courts such as the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). Hence, she allowed a lesbian to have the right to adopt (ECHR, 22 January 2008, E.B c/ France). She enabled children resulting for a surrogacy to have their birth certificate transcribed by the French registry office (ECHR, 21 July 2016, Foulon & Bouvet c/ France; ECHR, 19 July 2017, Laborie c/ France). She also obtained the right for a same-sex couple to enter in a civil partnership (ECHR, 7 November 2013, Vallianatos c/ Greece).
Clarion Project’s National Correspondent Shireen Qudosi warns that the same blasphemy riots like those against Asia Bibi in Pakistan recently are less than a generation away in America. Qudosi connects the surge of violence against the acquittal by Pakistan’s Supreme Court of Bibi on charges of blasphemy with a recent European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruling. The ECHR ruled that defamation of the Islamic Prophet Mohammed “goes beyond the permissible limits of freedom of expression” and is therefore not allowed. Meanwhile, in America, blasphemy accusations are currently framed as “Islamophobia.” Qudosi believes this accusation is a cloaked way of legitimizing blasphemy laws in the West. She says that instead of looking at speech that triggers a behavior, we need to look at the psychological state of mind of those triggered. She also challenges the myth that Islamophobia is a collective Muslim grievance, and urges lawmakers not to place their trust in Islamists who claim to represent all Muslims and “true” Islam.
The Secure Transportation and Executive Protection News for Monday, September 17th, 2018 In Vehicle News From the International Security Driver Association The First Attack on an Armored Vehicle in a Convoy? One of the first “vehicle assassinations” was that of Tsar Alexander II in Russia. He was one of the first victims of an assassination in an armored vehicle. The vehicle happened to be an armored horse-drawn carriage, a gift from Napoleon III of France. As he was known to do every Sunday, the Tsar drove in a three sleigh protection team to review the military unit called the Life Guards. He took the same route every Sunday. His security team consisted of the Tsar’s two-horse sleigh. Behind Alexander came two more sleighs filled with Cossack security officials. On 13 March 1881 as they were crossing a bridge a terrorist stepped forward and tossed a bomb under the legs of the Tsar’s horses. One Cossack was mortally wounded, as was a passing delivery boy. The windows of the royal sleigh were shattered, and the floor of the sleigh was smashed. The Tsar was dazed but survived it all with only a small cut on his hand. Colonel Dvoretsky, district chief of police, rushed up and urged the Tsar to get into his sleigh. At this point we can see that history hasn’t changed much; there are still principals who won’t listen to their security chiefs. The Tsar ignored his recommendation and wandered over to look at the site of the explosion. Alexander turned and began walking toward another carriage. He passed near a man leaning on an iron railing holding a parcel – another terrorist. The second terrorist turned and hurled his parcel at the Tsar’s feet. There was a second roar, another cloud of blue smoke; this time the street was littered with the wounded and dying. The Tsar crouched in a pool of his blood. The Tsar was driven swiftly to the palace, his sleigh leaving a trail of blood behind. By the time medical aid could be summoned, it was too late. To sum it all up they went the same route every Sunday, the principal survived the initial attack, got out of his armored vehicle, ignored the recommendations of his security and got blown up. This could have been the first attack on a “motorcade” and the theory that works today would have worked then – cover the principal and leave the kill zone. https://isdacenter.org/first-attack-armored-vehicle-convoy/ ======= And from Salon , critics say Consumer advocates are attacking a bill heading for a vote soon in the U.S. Senate that would clear legal obstacles for the deployment of driverless cars — a proposal that, critics say, lacks safeguards needed to protect the public and largely would let vehicle manufacturers regulate themselves. The measure, which is being pushed by auto and tech industry lobbyists, is called the AV START Act, standing for “American Vision for Safer Transportation through Advancement of Revolutionary Technologies.” https://www.salon.com/2018/09/15/safety-would-take-a-back-seat-if-senate-passes-bill-on-driverless-cars-critics-say_partner/ ====================== In Cyber Security News From Gizmodo.Com Top European Court Rules UK Mass Surveillance Regime Violates Human Rights The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled this week that the United Kingdom government’s surveillance regime violated human rights laws. https://gizmodo.com/top-european-court-rules-uk-mass-surveillance-regime-vi-1829029877 ====================== In Terrorism News From the Department of Homeland Security National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin Since 2015, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has used this Bulletin to highlight the continuing terror threat to the U.S. Homeland. The United States is engaged in a generational fight against terrorists who seek to attack the American people, our country, and our way of life. An informed vigilant and engaged public remains one of our greatest assets to identify potential terrorists and prevent attacks. https://www.dhs.gov/ntas/advisory/ntas_18_0914_0001 ====================== Links to all news stories mentioned in this podcast are available at the archive website securitydrivernews.libsyn.com. You can also listen to past podcast episodes and leave comments. As a reminder, the Secure Transportation and Executive Protection News Podcast is available on all variations of Apple and Google Play podcast apps and Spotify. ====================== This podcast is brought to you by the International Security Driver Association ISDA is a valuable resource for all practitioners working in the protection profession. We offer benchmark educational, networking, and marketing programs. 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In our latest episode of "On Human Rights," we hear from Jacques Hartmann, a senior lecturer at the School of Law at the University of Dundee in Scotland, who argues that the debate around the European Court of Human Rights is often confused, uninformed and at times misleading. Denmark has traditionally been a strong supporter of human rights. This is demonstrated by the fact that Denmark was a founding member of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), which protects citizens against human rights violations. But things have changed. In recent years, there has been an increasingly bitter debate about the ECHR and Denmark’s continued membership.
The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) (formally the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms) is an international treaty to protect human rights and fundamental freedoms in Europe. Drafted in 1950 by the then newly formed Council of Europe, the convention entered into force on 3 September 1953. All Council of Europe member states are party to the Convention and new members are expected to ratify the convention at the earliest opportunity.
Baroness Helena Kennedy, QC delivered the Annual Isaiah Berlin Lecture on law and globalization at Wolfson College. The lecture was introduced by Acting President of the College, Christina Redfield. The leading human rights lawyer Baroness Helena Kennedy gave a stirring defence of the principle of universal human rights when she delivered the Annual Isaiah Berlin Lecture on law and globalization at Wolfson College. She took as the starting point for her lecture the global economic crisis, which clearly demonstrated the importance of accepted norms to regulate today's interconnected world, and the need for the law to cross national borders to hold wrongdoers to account in the globalized marketplace. Addressing issues such as the position and treatment of women, same-sex rights, immigration, and asylum policy, Baroness Kennedy charted the development of the idea of universal human rights to better understand the controversy it attracts today. She offered the salutary reminder that the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) was drafted at the urging of Winston Churchill as a way of unifying people behind principles that would prevent the type of atrocities that had taken place in the Second World War. This effort to embed values in law was not intended to create global law, she explained, but to bring about a template against which national laws can be measured. Whilst acknowledging that developing nations may see human rights as a preoccupation of the wealthy, she vigorously defended human rights discourse against the claims of cultural relativism, which relegates human values below the claims of local culture. Strict cultural relativism, she argued, can often be a justification for human rights abuse, and uncritical acceptance of cultural relativism prevents us from examining the very societal structures that create the cultural norm.
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