As the Justice and Security Bill progresses through the House of Lords stages, our Human Rights Director highlights significant challenge from Peers from all three main political parties in the UK Human Rights Blog. JUSTICE remains unpersuaded of the Government’s case to expand the use of Closed Material Proceedings into ordinary civil proceedings. Read today’s […]

As the House of Lords meets to debate the Justice and Security Bill Second Reading, JUSTICE highlights its serious concerns about the impact of the Bill’s proposals on open, adversarial and equal justice. The Government is asking for an effective opt-out from our most basic principles of due process. The Supreme Court refused to extend […]

JUSTICE’s Human Rights Director reacts to the publication of the Justice and Security Bill in a guest piece for the UK Human Rights Blog. Despite widespread coverage of changes to the proposals since the publication of the Justice and Security Green Paper, the Bill represents a challenge to the UK’s longstanding traditions of open, adversarial […]

JUSTICE reacts to the judgement of the European Court of Human Rights confirming the need for reform of the UK bar on prisoners’ voting.  Read JUSTICE’s Press Release

In an article published today by Public Service Europe, JUSTICE’s Director of Human Rights Policy welcomes the focus on national implementation in the Brighton Declaration. The Declaration makes a positive commitment to the right of individuals to take their case to the Strasbourg Court and makes proposals to secure that right for future generations.  We […]

As States prepare to finalise the Brighton Declaration, tomorrow, the UK makes an important commitment to the future of the Court and the Convention. States must improve national standards and improve the protection of rights at home.  JUSTICE raises concern about agreement to amend the Convention to incorporate judicial principles designed to give States greater […]

Today, JUSTICE tells Times readers that the Brighton conference on the Strasbourg Court must be about national implementation, not beating up a system that has been key to raising standards across Europe. Read more.

Marking the publication of the latest joint NGO statement as proposals on the draft Brighton declaration on the future of the European Court of Human Rights come to a close, JUSTICE calls on States to focus on better national implementation of human rights standards over measures likely to undermine the long-term future of the European […]

In advance of the Brighton Conference on the future of the European Court of Human Rights, JUSTICE’s Human Rights Director suggests Guardian readers not believe everything they read about the Court and human rights. Will the conference be a missed opportunity to improve States’ records on human rights standards at home? Read more here

Today Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights publishes a damning report critical of the Government’s Justice and Security Green Paper. Their conclusion that there is no convincing case for change echoes JUSTICE’s view that the expansion of secret evidence is unfair, unnecessary and unjustifiable. Read JUSTICE’s Press Release