WHY CAN'T PARLIAMENT PROTECT OUR LIBERTIES AGAINST THE EXECUTIVE?
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WHY CAN'T PARLIAMENT PROTECT OUR LIBERTIES AGAINST THE EXECUTIVE?
Convention on Modern Liberty 28.2.2009 London Chaired by Andrew Blick Researcher, Democratic Audit Murray Hunt was appointed as the Legal Advisor to the cross-party Joint Committee on Human Rights in 2004. The Committee also looks at Government action to deal with judgments of the UK courts and the European Court of Human Rights where breaches of human rights have been found. Professor Sir Trevor Smith was created Baron Smith of Clifton, of Mountsandel in the County of Londonderry on 4 November 1997. He is the Liberal Democrat spokesman in the House of Lords on Northern Ireland and constitutional affairs. Dr Meg Russell is senior research fellow at the Constitution Unit, University College London – a team of experts who have been reviewing information policy decisions in Data Protection and the Freedom of Information since 1996. She writes regularly for the Guardian. Stuart Weir is the Director of Democratic Audit and a Visiting Professor with the Government Department at the University of Sussex. Democratic Audit is an independent research organisation under a board on which Essex academics play a significant role. Stuart Weir is also founder of Charter 88, the UK campaign for democratic change, and a former editor of the New Statesman and New Socialist, and former deputy editor of New Society. He writes and broadcasts widely on democratic issues Jonny Butterworth is the President of UCL Student Human Rights Programme; The Abolition of Liberty Bill). He believes that student apathy is not a concrete state and that motivation is important: "You need catalysts. People don't act when they feel isolated, but when they see people around them doing things." (The Guardian)
Blip | March 16, 2009
