Tag: Human Rights
I’m partial to a bit of Beeb
On a day when I am learning it may be OK to eat red meat after all, I’m also having to re-think my attitude to the BBC. Read more »
Posted: October 1st, 2019 under Topics: Communication, Human Rights, Justice, Management, Politics, Press
We disagree … so you must be lying?
From working as an independent expert witness, I know only too well that it is not unusual to find one’s client acting as though nothing the opposing party says can ever be believed. As a mediator, I have seen this attitude taken by both sides simultaneously. Sometimes in a dispute, both sides are inveterate liars. But quite often I would see two parties who were both incapable of seeing that their opponent’s point of view was not built (entirely) on falsehood. It seems that is where we are now with Brexit. Read more »
Posted: November 28th, 2018 under Topics: Communication, Happened to me, Human Rights, Law, Mediation, Politics, Press, Regulation
Friday fiascos
A couple of matters caught my attention this morning, from the world of journalism and coffee shops. Read more »
Posted: December 15th, 2017 under Topics: Communication, Happened to me, Human Rights, Justice, Law, Press
Brexit: supreme logic required
Much has been written about the Government’s appeal to the Supreme Court in the Brexit case. Political commentators tell us that the appeal is very likely to fail. Many lawyers think otherwise. Read more »
Posted: December 4th, 2016 under Topics: Communication, Human Rights, Justice, Law, Politics
It’s lawyers v politicians in the battle for human rights
The Conservative Party has published plans to change Britain’s human rights law. They have been criticised by many lawyers. But, whilst the politicians may have got the law wrong, many lawyers seem to have got the politics wrong. Read more »
Posted: December 31st, 2014 under Topics: Human Rights, Justice, Law, Politics
Victim statements: are they having the wrong impact?
In an episode of The West Wing from 2002, the (fictional) US President. Jed Bartlet, prepares for a presidential debate by considering how he should answer a question designed to challenge his opposition to capital punishment: “If your youngest daughter, Zoe, was raped and murdered, would you not want to see the man responsible put to death?” Read more »
Posted: August 5th, 2014 under Topics: Communication, Human Rights, Justice, Law, Politics
Testing times for the Director of Public Prosecutions
The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Alison Saunders, says that juries apply a “much higher test” than prosecutors do when deciding whether to pursue a case. If that is true, it seems bizarre. More likely, it betrays a lack of logic on the part of the DPP. Read more »
Posted: April 14th, 2014 under Topics: Communication, Human Rights, Justice, Law
Journalists in a tiz at Supreme Court’s win-win decision
I’m not sure quite how to say this. So I’ll say it twice: Read more »
Posted: October 31st, 2013 under Topics: Communication, Human Rights, Justice, Law, Politics, Regulation
Leveson – Is the battle already lost?
What are the chances of being able to write a 2,000 page report on press regulation and walk away with all-party support (or even all-Party support)? Plainly, not very high. This final stage of the inquiry could have been – should have been – handled differently. Read more »
Posted: November 30th, 2012 under Topics: Human Rights, Justice, Law, Mediation, Politics, Press, Regulation
Harry’s Bottom and the Right to Privacy
Today’s big argument is said to be about privacy and the public interest. I think there must be more to it that that. Most commentators seem to be going round in circles. Read more »
Posted: August 24th, 2012 under Topics: Communication, Human Rights, Law, Press, Regulation