Anthony Lester

Anthony Lester is a practising barrister, a Liberal Democrat working peer, chairman of the Charter 88 Trust and president of Interights (the International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights).

Letter
The answer to Professor John Griffith’s question (Letters, 4 July) is contained in my Human Rights Bill, which was passed by the House of Lords last year. I believe that the European Convention on Human Rights (and for that matter the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights) should be given the same status in English law as European Community law. In other words, existing and future...

Terms of Art: Human Rights Law

Conor Gearty, 11 March 2010

In January 1999, Colin Middleton hanged himself in prison. He’d been in custody since 1982, when he was convicted – aged 14 – of murdering his 18-month-old niece. While in...

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