European Convention on Human Rights Articles

Today, 10 December is the international day of human rights. It marks the genesis of our modern international human rights framework.  The day in 1948 that the United Nations general assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Two years later, the...

David Maxwell Fyfe or Lord Kilmuir, as he became, was a staunch Tory for his whole adult life and yet he is hard to equate with the modern breed of conservatives. Kilmuir was born in Edinburgh and became the Conservative member for Liverpool West Derby in 1935,...

‘My government will bring forward proposals for a British bill of rights’, was all the Queen had to say in her speech today about the abolition of the Human Rights Act. No legislation, just proposals. It was the moment the Conservative government bottled it and...

The High Court judgement on the hacking of eight high-profile actors and celebrities' phones is making history as the publisher of the Daily Mirror and Sunday Mirror has been ordered to pay compensation many times more than previous awards where the right for private...