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Shami Chakrabarti, Director of the human rights organisation Liberty, delivered the 2009 Annual Mishcon Lecture to a packed audience on 29 June. Her lecture on "Common Values, Common Sense: The story of rights and freedoms in modern Britain explored the adversity and great opportunity for rights and freedoms in Britain."
Vintage UCL Podcasts
29 June 2009
Panelists:
Prof John Lowry, Vice-Dean UCL Laws
The Rt. Hon. The Baroness Hale of Richmond
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8/3/2023
"To be or not to be: a decision for the individual or
the state?"
The UCL & Bindman debate 2009 centered on the legal, medical and ethical arguments surrounding the topical issue of assisted suicide in Britain. A packed auditorium heard both sides to the argument of whether the current law should change to allow people to help terminally ill patients to travel to a country in which assisted suicide is lawful, without fear of being prosecuted.
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5/7/2021
"To be or not to be: a decision for the individual or
the state?"
The UCL & Bindman debate 2009 centered on the legal, medical and ethical arguments surrounding the topical issue of assisted suicide in Britain. A packed auditorium heard both sides to the argument of whether the current law should change to allow people to help terminally ill patients to travel to a country in which assisted suicide is lawful, without fear of being prosecuted.
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5/7/2021
Renowned South African judge and freedom fighter Albie Sachs launched his book 'The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law' with a public lecture in the UCL Bloomsbury Theatre on 26 October 2009.
Justice Sachs as twice a refugee from South Africa to the UK. The first occasion, in 1966, followed his detention without charge or trial under the 90-day rule of the apartheid era. After his release, he was immediately rearrested and confined for a further 90 days in solitary confinement.
The second time was after the South African secret service placed a bomb in his car in Mozambique in 1988, leading to the loss of an arm and the sight of one eye.
In the 1990s he was appointed Judge of the South African Constitutional Court by the then President Mandela.
In this podcast, Albie Sachs discusses why he wrote his latest book, the democratic purpose of laughter, and the role universities can play in protecting human rights.
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2/19/2021
Renowned South African judge and freedom fighter Albie Sachs launched his book 'The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law' with a public lecture in the UCL Bloomsbury Theatre on 26 October 2009.
Justice Sachs as twice a refugee from South Africa to the UK. The first occasion, in 1966, followed his detention without charge or trial under the 90-day rule of the apartheid era. After his release, he was immediately rearrested and confined for a further 90 days in solitary confinement.
The second time was after the South African secret service placed a bomb in his car in Mozambique in 1988, leading to the loss of an arm and the sight of one eye.
In the 1990s he was appointed Judge of the South African Constitutional Court by the then President Mandela.
In this podcast, Albie Sachs discusses why he wrote his latest book, the democratic purpose of laughter, and the role universities can play in protecting human rights.
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2/19/2021
Health inequalities are often referred to as a “wicked problem”; complex, difficult to define and with no simple solutions. This symposium brings together experts from a range of fields, including medicine, epidemiology, sociology and law, who are attempting to understand and tackle the multifaceted impacts of inequalities, at the levels of individuals and communities through to population.
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2/3/2021
by Dr Alex Mills (UCL Laws), Prof Rachael Mulheron (Queen Mary Law), Robert Sharp (Head of Campaigns, English PEN), Dr Judith Townend (Sussex Law)
As part of this year’s research theme on ‘Lies’, the UCL Institute of Advanced Studies hosted a panel discussion on the present and future of defamation law. How can the law best protect rights of speech and of privacy in a digital age? Has the Defamation Act of 2013 allowed for the publication of truths, opinions honestly held, or speech in the public interest? How has a new standard of harm respected the rights of the claimants and defendants in practice?
The discussion was hosted by Harry Eccles-Williams, Associate at Mischon de Reya.
Find more information at: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/ias-events/defamation-a-roundtable-on-lies-and-the-law
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3/27/2018