Human rights committee report on legal aid bill
3 January 2012
On 19 December 2011, the Joint Committee on Human Rights published its legislative scrutiny Report on the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill.
On 19 December 2011, the Joint Committee on Human Rights published its legislative scrutiny Report on the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill.
On 13 December 2011, the Chair of the EHRC, gave evidence on human rights in the UK to Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights.
In 2011, the Council of Europe published ‘Human rights in Europe: no grounds for complacency. Viewpoints by Thomas Hammarberg, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights’.
In 2011, the European Commission published ‘How to Present a Discrimination Claim. Handbook on seeking remedies under the EU Non-discrimination Directives’.
Revised versions of all Equality and Human Rights Commission guides were published in December 2011 and January 2012 to reflect the final version of the specific duty regulations.
In December 2011, the Welsh Government published the ‘Welsh Ministers Report on the implementation of the Disability Equality Duty’.
On 21 December 2011, the Department for Communities and Local Government published two topic reports on ‘Race, Religion and Equalities’ and on ‘Community Spirit’.
In December 2011, the European Network Against Racism and AGE Platform Europe published a joint paper on older ethnic minorities and migrants.
Podcasts are available of the Law Society symposium entitled ‘Realising Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the UK’ that was held on 21 and 22 October 2011.
In 2011, BEMIS published a report on ‘Human Rights Education: Theory and practices’.