A Right to Legal Aid?
Members of the Centre for Responsibilities, Rights and the Law have responded to a Ministry of Justice Consultation paper CP14/2013, 4 June 2013.
You can read their report here: Transforming legal aid - CRRL Response
Cultural Rights in Post Conflict Societies
A report drafted by Centre members has been considered at a major International Conference on Human Rights and Culture hosted by the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission in co-operation with the UN Special Rapporteur in the Field of Cultural Rights. The report, on Cultural Rights in Post Conflict Societies, was commissioned by the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission and the research provided by Dr Elizabeth Craig (Law), Stratis Efthymiou (PhD candidate Sociology) and Ciara O’Connell (PhD candidate Law). A set of recommendations were discussed and it is the intention that these, that along with the report, will be tabled at the UN early 2014. For further info, see http://www.nihrc.org/index.php/news/item/717.
Do We Need a UK Bill of Rights? The Centre responded to the two consultation papers issued by the Commission on a Bill of Rights –
Response of the Centre (2012) and Response of the Centre (2011)
Future of the European Court of Human Rights:
To mark the High Level Conference on the future of the European Court of Human Rights held in Brighton on 18-20 April 2012, the Centre, with the Sussex European Institute, issued a press statement expressing the strong commitment of researchers to the European Convention on Human Rights and to its importance in both the United Kingdom and wider Europe and published, on the Centre’s website, case studies to demonstrate the beneficial impact of the European Court of Human Rights on UK domestic law in areas including our prison system, criminal justice, childcare, family and welfare law. http://www.sussex.ac.uk/sei/newsandevents/conferenceonthefutureoftheeuropeancourtofhumanrigh