The Equality and Human Rights Commission is inviting legal advisors to contact the Commission if they have a case that resonates with the strategic litigation policy and the business plan of the EHRC.
In April 2016, Colm O’Cinneide, Professor of Constitutional and Human Rights Law at University College London, talked to Professor David Feldman FBA about the UK and the European Convention of Human Rights.
In May 2016, the Equality and Human Rights Commission published ‘Business and Human Rights: a five-step guide for company boards’.
In April 2016, the Chair of the Joint Committee on Human Rights wrote to the Rt Hon Michael Gove MP regarding a British Bill of Rights and inviting him to give oral evidence to the Committee on 25 May 2016.
The House of Lords European Union Committee has heavily criticised Government proposals to scrap the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights in their report released in May 2016.
On 9 May 2016, the Joint Committee on Human Rights published its report on the joint Pre Appointment Hearing for the new Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
David Isaac’s appointment as the new Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission was confirmed in April 2016.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission published its strategic plan for 2016 to 2019 in May 2016.
The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights released an annual activity report for 2015 in April 2016.
This explainer sets out Europe’s legal systems in relation to human rights and ‘helps to disentangle some of the issues relating to a complex and fragmented UK human rights framework that draws on two separate European legal systems’.
