Lecture Wednesday 3 December 2014: Fracking - The Protests and the Court Cases

The Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers
in association with
The Mansfield Student Law Society, London Metropolitan University

invites you to attend our Human Rights Lectures 2014 - 2015

Wednesday 3 December 2014 6.30pm at the Law School, 16 Goulston Street, London, E1 7TP

Fracking: The Protests and the Court Cases

Speakers:
Tom Wainwright, criminal barrister at Garden Court Chambers; and
Melanie Strickland, activist in Reclaim the Power and solicitor.

AGM and John McDonnell lecture - 19 November

The next lecture in this year's series of Human Rights Law lectures will take place this Wednesday 19 November at 6.30pm. John McDonnell MP will be speaking on "Holding the executive to account: Parliament and the Courts, an MP's perspective".

The venue for the lecture is Basement Lecture Theatre (GSB01), School of Law, London Metropolitan University, 16 Goulston Street, London E1 7TP. Please note that this is a change in venue from last year's lecture series, which took place at the University of Law. The rest of this year's lecture series will also take place at London Met.

The lecture will be followed by the Haldane Society's AGM (expected about 8pm). Members are encouraged to attend the AGM. All members are entitled to nominate themselves for the society's executive committee, or one of the society's officer positions. Members are also entitled to submit motions to the AGM. Members who intend to stand for a position, or submit a motion, are requested to send a brief nomination statement or your proposed motion to secretary@haldane.org in advance of the AGM.

Our long-standing Chair, Liz Davies, is stepping down this year. The Haldane Society wishes to express our most profund thanks to Liz for the many years of excellent leadership and work that she has put in.

Matt Foot Lecture 22/10/2014

Missed the lecture?  Watch it online.

Haldane Society Lecture 22/10/2014

Questions following Haldane Society Lecture 22/10/2014

Free Lecture and Film: The State of Unpeace in the Philippines

The Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers, Campaign for Human Rights in the Philippines and Amnesty International invite you to hear Cristina Ellazar Palabay on "The State of Unpeace in the Philippines" together with a film on the struggle against Glencore-Xstrata's Tampakan mining project, potentially forcing 4,000 people from their homes. Other speakers include Anna Morris, Vice-Chair Haldane Society, and CHRP.

Monday 30th June 2014, 6.30pm - 8.30pm at the Conference Room, Amnesty International, Human Rights Action Centre, 17-25 New Inn Yard, London EC2A 3EA.

Cristina is Secretary General of Karapatan, the Alliance for the Advancement of Peoples' Rights in the Philippines: http://www.karapatan.org. Karapatan and Cristina were heavily involved in delivering relief for victims of the typhoon despite having to endure government violations of human rights, its counter-insurgency programme and government corruption.

KARAPATAN is an alliance of human rights organizations and programs, human rights desks and committees of people’s organizations, and individual advocates committed to the defense of people’s rights and civil liberties. It  firmly believes that...

• Human rights should be respected in all its dimensions – civil and political, economic, social and cultural.
• Basic rights to life, humane treatment, and due process should be preserved at all times.
• The people has the right to be free from all forms of oppression and exploitation.
• A repressive state which serves the interests of a few oppressors and exploiters are the worse violator of human rights.
• The struggle of the Filipino people for national liberation and social emancipation provides the framework for human rights advocacy.
• Human rights advocacy must be biased for the interest of the oppressed classes, sectors, and groups.
• Human rights advocacy is integral to the struggle of the peasants for land, the workers for national industrialization and decent living and working conditions, the women against exploitation and discrimination, the indigenous peoples for self-determination, the poor for basic social services, and the youth for access to education and other venues for growth and development.

Free admission. No need to reserve in advance. More details: www.haldane.org and http://www.chrp.org.uk/.

Lecture 12 March: Omar Khard and the Betrayal of International Law

Wednesday 12 March 2014, 6.30pm

Omar Khadr and the Betrayal of International Law

At Garden Court Chambers, 57-60 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A

Canadian citizen Omar Khadr, 27, was 15 years old when he was captured by the US military in Afghanistan in 2002. He was taken to Bagram, where he was tortured, and then on to Guantánamo Bay, where he is the only person since WWII to be convicted as an adult of war crimes committed as a minor under a secret plea bargain. He returned to Canada in September 2012 where he remains in prison, and until recently at a maximum-security facility. His lawyers have recently launched an appeal against his US conviction and the Canadian government for breaches of his constitutional rights.

Dennis Edney QC, Khadr’s Scottish-Canadian lawyer, will talk through the legal issues surrounding Omar Khadr’s unique case and the gross abuses of his human rights and international law by both the US and Canadian governments.

The event will be chaired by Professor Bill Bowring, President of the European Lawyers for Democracy and Human Rights (ELDH); International Secretary, Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers. Jointly organised by CAMPACC, the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers and the London Guantánamo Campaign.

The event is free and all welcome! For information contact: secretary@haldane.org

Lecture 13 March: Demonisation of Migrants

THURSDAY 13 MARCH 2014, 6.30pm How does the political and media demonisation of migrants affect the rule of law?

University of Law, 14 Store Street, London WC1

Speakers: Frances Webber and Dr Jon Burnett, editor IRR News.

Free admission. We regret CPD points are not available.

Download the poster.

Human Rights Lectures 2013-14

Thursday 13 February 2014:

UK human rights violation in Afghanistan and Iraq - the present picture.

Speaker: Phil Shiner, Public Interest Lawyers.

Thursday 13 March 2014:

Reflections on the Mark Duggan inquest.

Speakers: to be confirmed.

All lectures at 6.30pm at the University of Law, 14 Store Street, London WC1A 7DE.

Admission free. We regret that CPD points are not available.

Download the poster (pdf).

Haldane Lecture: Government Attacks on Squatters

Missed the lecture?  See it online below:

This video was recorded 15/01/2014

Haldane Lectures Spring 2014

Wednesday 15th January 2014:

Government's Attack on Squatters

Speakers: David Wawtkinson, barrister and specialist in squatters rights; and a squatters' rights activist.

Thursday 13th February 2014:

UK Human Rights Violations in Iraq and Afghanistan - The Present Picture

Speakers: Phil Shiner, solicitor, Public Interest Lawyers.

All lectures at 6.30pm, University of Law, Store Street. Check in advance for CPD.

Download the A4 poster (PDF).