Hearing 6: The Implications of Brexit for Fundamental Rights Protection in the UK

Read report: The Implications of Brexit for fundamental rights protection in the UK
Rapporteurs: Dr Jo Murkens and Sarah Trotter

The sixth hearing of the LSE Commission on the Future of Britain in Europe took place on 25 February 2016 and was convened by Dr Jo Eric Kushal Murkens, Associate Professor of Law. The hearing revolved around two main questions:

1. What would Brexit mean for the protection of fundamental rights in the UK?
   
   
2. What would Brexit mean for your particular area of expertise?

Read Dr Murkens and  Sarah Trotter's blog summary of the hearing, (March 2015):  'Fundamental rights and fundamental fears'

LSE Brexit Vote Blogs by Hearing Participants 

(12/03/2016) Mary Honeyball:  ‘Taking the law into our own hands: the perils of a British Bill of Rights’ 

(14/04/2016) Diana Wallis:  'European rights: there is no going backwards'

Hearing Participants

• Catherine Barnard, Professor of European Union Law, Trinity College, Cambridge
• Ed Bates, Senior Lecturer, Leicester Law School, University of Leicester
• Alice Donald, Senior Lecturer, Department of Law and Politics, School of Law, Middlesex University
• Piers Gardner, Barrister, Monckton Chambers; UK delegate to the Permanent Delegation of the CCBE to the European Court of Human Rights; former Director of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law
• Brian Gormally, Director, Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ)
• Dominic Grieve, Rt Hon Dominic Grieve QC MP; Member of Parliament for Beaconsfield; Former Attorney General for England and Wales
• Simon Hoffman, Associate Professor, College of Law and Criminology, Swansea University; Co-Director, Wales Observatory on Human Rights of Children and Young People
• Mary Honeyball, Member of the European Parliament for London, Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats; Member of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality
• Jackie Jones, Professor of Feminist Legal Studies, University of the West of England; Barrister; President of the European Women Lawyers Association
• Angela Patrick, Barrister; Director of Human Rights Policy, JUSTICE; former Assistant Legal Adviser to the UK Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights
• Gavin Phillipson, Professor in Durham Law School and Member of the Human Rights Centre, University of Durham
• Michael Pinto-Duschinsky, Senior Consultant on Constitutional Affairs to Policy Exchange
• Geoffrey Robertson QC, Founder and Head of Doughty Street Chambers; formerly first President of the UN Special Court for Sierra Leone; former Distinguished Jurist Member, United Nations Internal Justice Council
• Lee Rotherham, Director of Special Projects, Vote Leave
• Drew Smith, former Member of the Scottish Parliament for Glasgow, Member of the Equal Opportunities Committee; former Spokesperson on the Constitution, Scottish Labour Party
• Adam Wagner, Barrister, One Crown Office Row; General Editor of UK Human Rights Blog
• Diana Wallis, Senior Fellow in Law, University of Hull
• Marina Wheeler QC, One Crown Office Row; Member of the Attorney General’s A Panel of Counsel

 Additional Brexit Vote blog

(19/05/2016) Catherine Dupré:  'Laws born out of trauma: in defence of the EU’s conception of human rights'